This week I watched a video on a social site about an older photographer who found that as the years go by, he carries fewer and fewer heavy, full-sized cameras. The result was that he made more and more photographs with his smartphone, which he said wasn’t very satisfying. His solution was to turn to…

A photo buddy and I recently met at the Stratford Peach Festival. He lives in Tulsa, and only occasionally makes time to do professional photography work, so he liked the idea of photographing the Festival. He and I have known each other since college, where we were both photojournalism students. In the embarrassingly large number…

It won’t come as a surprise to anyone that, as a photographer, I have always been interested in any technology that allows us to see more, see better, and even see things that we can’t really see with our own eyes. I love telescopes. What we saw with the Hubble Space Telescope was nothing short…

From the start of my career, the photography press recommended using a filter on the front of all my lenses, and my peers always used a filter on the front of all their lenses. This filter was usually an ultra-violet (UV) blocking filter, but once in a while, especially early in my career, a “skylight”…