Spring is about to spring forth, and with it, color. Photographers across the northern hemisphere will pull their cameras out, charge their batteries, format their storage media, and generally “suit up” for the coming weeks. It’s a time of brown grass turning green, flowers and trees blooming, outdoor gatherings that include Easter and Ada’s excellent…
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This Saturday at the Oklahoma Press Association’s annual convention, I was honored and kind of surprised to find that I swept – got first, second, and third place – four photography categories. My newspaper also got first place in photography, which is all me. Here are the images. News Photograph Sports Photograph Feature Photograph Photo…
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I made these images one very early Christmas Eve in 2012, in my wife’s hometown, Ryan, Oklahoma. I was out extra early to walk our dogs. I shot these with my Sony Cybershot F828. Images like this remind us the the value of always being ready to make pictures.
Continue reading →Here are some images that I generated over the past few months around the house and the patch of Oklahoma where I live.
Continue reading →As anyone and everyone knows, most pictures viewed by human beings every day are viewed on screens of one kind or another. Important exceptions are, of course, my own newspaper, which is always better viewed in print, and many more visually-oriented publications. It’s fun to share images on social media or, preferably, here on my…
Continue reading →A fellow photographer and I got into a very interesting discussion recently as I was walking my dogs. I have a lot of interesting discussions while walking my dogs, since I can put in my ear buds and slip my phone into my back pocket, then talk through stuff as the Wolfhound and the Chihuahua…
Continue reading →Fellow journalist Ashlynd Huffman texted me recently asking how to create a silhouette. It occurred to me that it would be worth it to have my own tutorial about it. Silhouettes are essentially lithographs, and are usually created with a bright background that is correctly exposed, with something underlit or unlit in the foreground that…
Continue reading →On my work laptop, I use recent images from my news, sports, and feature photos as my screen saver. [stextbox id=’info’ caption=’My Screen Needs to Be Saved?’]For you 21st century people who have no idea what a screen saver is, basically it is part of the operating system of a desktop or a laptop computer…
Continue reading →I shot this on my way to work this morning, fortuitous that my first assignment required a different route to work than I usually take. I jumped out of my car and half-ran across a mostly-empty four-lane highway to get into position.
Continue reading →Basketball season is in its peak, and my newspaper and I cover a lot of games. We have a great sports scene in our area, competitive and exciting. I wondered as I was photographing one of those games last week, a tournament-heavy week with lots of games, how many photographers face the same thing I…
Continue reading →A long-time-ago photography student, Royce Gideon, invited me to judge a photography show at Artists of the Arbuckles Art Gallery in Sulphur, Oklahoma. I had no idea what to expect since photography is consistently inconsistent, but I had high hopes. I drove down Thursday morning and had a look, and found myself in the midst…
Continue reading →As the years have passed, I find that there are few things I love as much as teaching photography. It’s fun and interesting, and, like last night, full of “ah ha!” moments for all involved. Last night we had a great golden hour, followed by an even better blue hour, followed by a fun indoor…
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As consumers and the camera industry are well aware, the most common type of photography in the world today is smartphone photography, and the most popular smartphone is the iPhone. My wife Abby and I have iPhones, and their sophisticated, convenient, built-in cameras have all but silenced our point-and-shoot cameras. As I explore the most…
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