Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Two birds in flight through a solar ice halo, San Francisco, California
Last year I was testing out a new camera next to a parking lot near the San Francisco Int’l Airport. I was actually there to do some quality tests on a lens that was on loan from Nikon Professional Services, namely the [...]

Alpenglow is a term that photographers (and artists) use to describe a type of light that was often seen at the end of the day in the Alps, turning the snow-covered peaks a bright crimson red. A recent question posted over at Photo.net prompted me to reply, and I thought I would go ahead and [...]

What do you do if you’re getting railroaded by a railroad company? Well one answer, according to a photographer in Vancouver British Columbia, is to make a stand against the oncoming legal locomotive. According to a report in Trans Talk, a specialty blog on Vancouver transportation issues, The Union Pacific (UP) Railroad is [...]

And speaking of clouds;

These are mammatus clouds taken at sunset from the deck of my old apartment. The San Francisco Bay Area is not known for powerful thunderstorms in the same way as the Great Plains, or for the monsoons of the Southwest. However, on some rare occasions, we get what I call “Hurricane Spawn”, [...]

I’m one of those people that whenever I fly, I try to get a window seat. As long as it’s not picth black night, or flying through clouds, my nose (or camera) is glued to the window. On a couple cross-country flights, I’ve actually gotten a stiff neck and cramps from being twisted in my [...]

When can you make money selling photo prints of another person for tens of thousands of dollars, not pay the subject anything in return, get sued by an elder New York City Orthodox Jewish man, and win? Why, when you’re selling ART, of course! At least, so says Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Judith Gische when [...]

Digital photography offers some wonderful capabilities over traditional analog film counterparts. One of the main areas many people like to tout is the extended dynamic range of digital vs. film. Photoshop has a tool called “Merge to HDR” where you can take a series of images at different exposure values, and Photoshop will blend them [...]

The photos that almost went Poof!

A-Bomb boom T+1/100,000,000 sec.

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