Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Photo: Line of photographers at the bridge over the Virgin River, looking toward the Watchman, Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah

This is only a small section of the photographers lined up trying to make their own icon image of The Watchman and the Virgin River. In some spots, tripods legs were practically interlocked, and photographers [...]

Picture: Hikers reflected in desert pool below rock formations at The Wave, Coyote Buttes, Paria / Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona – Utah border.

Happy Belated Birthday, Richard!

Photo: Leaning Tower, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

Within the last hour I heard the sad news that famed climber Todd Skinner has died in a fall off Leaning Tower in Yosemite Valley. I am not a climber, but my old boss, Galen Rowell had done numerous climbs with Todd, and I had the chance [...]

Picture: Red Ivy leaves in fall on wall of Garry Farrar vineyards, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County, California.
This is an image I shot a year or so ago, and is now one of 4500 image scans in my production queue. I’ve been having lots of fun (sarcasm) this week, dealing with one of my [...]

Yes, that’s right; the Boy Scouts of America now have a merit badge for copyright awareness. The AP report highlights that this is aimed toward music and movies. Let’s see them try to clean up and educate all the masses of people swiping material, including photos, for posting on their MySpace account. Now there’s a [...]

I don’t do too many HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos. In fact, I’ve only experimented with a few shots here and there. But with Photoshop’s HDR feature, it’s possible to get images with a range of detail in highlights and shadows that had not been previously possible with single frame film shots. If you’d like [...]

Maybe you’ve realized from browsing through this weblog that I’m a bit of a Space & Science fan. One place I love to visit is APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). I’ve selected out a few really cool images that are worth seeing.
1.) Saturn Eclipses the Sun – taken from the Cassini spacecraft, this is [...]

Reporting from the far and wide regions, the PhillyBlurb.com has an article about a local photographer who has been busted for failing to deliver wedding photos to 25 couples; weddings where his fee ranged between $1,500.00 and $5,000.00 each. As I often say, anyone can call themselves a photographer, but not everyone is cabable of [...]

Those of you who have young daughters will recognize the above quote from TV’s “Dora the Explorer“. But for myself, it seemed the fitting quote for mentioning a weblog I found recently through a link posted in one of my professional photography forums. Unfortunately, it’s been such a busy week that I can’t remember where [...]

Here’s one more shot of the Blue Angels flying in formation during the San Francisco Fleet Week celebrations.