Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Fresh snow on oak trees in Yosemite Valley, following a spring storm, Yosemite National Park, California

This weekend I spent our holiday working on a family project, namely our backyard. The weather here was warm and wonderful, with a cool evening breeze. Then today as I’m going through various images, it hit me that a [...]

Picture: Golden Gate Bridge and grey fog sky, from San Francisco Bay, California
This has been one of those work travel catch-up repeat periods over the last six weeks. Recently, I got to take a cruise on SF Bay. As the boat got close to the Gate, a dilemma that confronts most amateur photographers confronted me [...]

A couple Board Members over at stock-photo powerhouse, Getty Images, are in hot water according to a report over at The Stock Asylum. In the story, they write:
(Two lawsuits) contend that the defendants, including Getty Images’ Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Klein and Chairman Mark [...]

Picture: Sunset light on Angora Peaks above Fallen Leaf Lake, South Lake Tahoe Basin, California

This was the scene last weekend, a short walk from our family campsite at Fallen Leaf Lake. I hadn’t been to this campground in many years. The first time was spent camping with friends after my high school graduation; my present [...]

When Friday feels like Monday….
This morning I was checking my email through my webmail via my laptop. I got the whole bunch of ususal spam, and sorted between them were realmails. Send in one technical glitch, and all of the sudden half of my messages went poof or became corrupt. I did see one email [...]

On a forum post recently, someone asked about the passions and perils of “going pro”. I wrote the following reply about the realities of choosing to become a professional photographer:
Yay, good brother, let me come forward and offer witness and testimony. say; “Hallelujah.”
People are under such illusions that being a professional photographer is such an [...]

PIcture: Sunset over lone pine on the South Shore, Lake Tahoe, California

Don’t ask why. Posted just because it’s pretty.

The brightest supernova seen to date is being touted in the media. The Media is here on our little rocky outpost. Fortunately, the supernova is in a galaxy far far away. What I would love to see (at least I think so) is if a star in our own galaxy pulled a duplicate performance. As [...]

Curses to the the photographer that posted this link on one of my professional forums this weekend. If only I could bill them for my wasted time spent playing a rather cool photography game, instead of doing the work I needed to get done. Oh well, life is made for such interruptions.
Think you could be [...]

Coming soon to a Library of Congress near you:
Good news for creatives here in the United States; our friendly neighborhood Library of Congress has posted an announcement about the coming availability of electronic registration of your copyright materials. Not only that, but the cost will be lower than traditional snail mail filings. Anticipated launch of [...]