Suggestion from Bryan Hansel to find your photography style — go through your photos for the year and pick your favorite single one from each month. Not your best, or most liked. Your favorite! Look at those twelve photos and reflect on what the common threads are between them all.
Photography
A simple gallery of standalone photographs—spirals, sunsets, city streets and waterfalls—each shared with minimal text. It’s my place to let pictures speak for themselves.
Beyond the Light by Layne Kennedy
My friend Layne Kennedy launched a Kickstarter for his new book Beyond the Light. I met Layne when Tammy signed me up for a Dog Sledding Photography workshop in 2009. Layne is an incredible photographer, creator, and teacher. They speak to us about the power of connection, the …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Beyond the Light by Layne KennedyThe Duplicates and Merging feature in the latest version of Photos 8.0 is really nice. I’ve wanted a utility to do this for years and so far it works exactly how I would want it to.
I made the leap today — got a Leica Q2. We have a number of trips this year, and will be getting a lot of shots with this.
Went through all my photography gear and filtered out the stuff I no longer need or don’t use. National Camera took it all off my hands for a good price.
Visiting A Central Minnesota Farm by Layne Kennedy
My friend and amazing photographer Layne Kennedy put together this short video of life on a Central Minnesota Farm. I love how he captures it all so well. I’ve been lucky enough to take classes with Layne and his talent is amazing. I had the fortunate opportunity to visit a …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Visiting A Central Minnesota Farm by Layne KennedyGreat afternoon visiting the Shedd Aquarium. Always one of my favorite places in Chicago.
The iPhone 13 Pro wide-angle lens is really nice for shooting aquarium scenes.
Desert Botanical Garden
Wanting to experience even more desert plant life we visited the Desert Botanical Garden today and it was incredible. Everywhere you looked there were great displays. It was a great day to walk around and take in the great scenery and learn more about various cactus and plants. …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Desert Botanical GardenSalt River Wild Horses
Today we visited Coon Bluff Recreation Area to see the Salt River wild horses. The non-profit Salt River Wild Horse Management group helps provide for these wild horses, and they are currently putting out hay for them each day. You can visit while they do this and walk among …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Salt River Wild HorsesLightroom is giving me troubles, and Photos is too. My iMac is stuck at “Restoring from iCloud…" and is behind other devices. Articles online suggest there isn’t much to do but wait, sometimes for days, and let it work. 🤦♂️
