Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Sunset light on the Trona Pinnacles, near Ridgecrest, California

Yesterday I announced through my Facebook & Twitter profiles that I’d just completed a weeks long edit of a 10 day trip I took last fall to Death Valley & the Sierra while working on my book, California; Yesterday & Today. It turned out that after [...]

Gopher poking head out of ground burrow, Redwood Regional Park, Berkeley Hills, California

Photographer Jack Hollingsworth is very popular in the twitter-verse and social media circles. He has recently been posting a number of excellent weblog articles using the title premise, “I am…“. I thought I would take a moment to ride his coattails and proudly [...]

Picture: A California Condor at the Condor Ridge exhibit of the San Diego Wild Animal Park. Photo by Chuck Szmurlo.
Now that I’m back from a week off with my family for Spring Break, I wanted to take a moment and respond to my last post, “Why I Like Free Photos.”
From the buyer’s side, [...]

Picture: Shelter on Mount Whitney’s summit, Sierra Nevada, California; Photo by Justin Johnsen

I know it must sound crazy at first; why would a professional photographer be happy about other photographers giving away their work for free? Given the dire warnings about how microstock was driving the stock photography industry in a race to the bottom [...]

Picture: Bidwell Mansion, Chico, California
I tended to include “No HDR” with many of my landscape images posted online. I heard too many people say, “great use of HDR” at a time when I never used any automated HDR process on my images. Not long ago, I finally experimented with a few HDR shots. The [...]

Picture(s): Lava Tube Cave Entrance, Lava Beds National Monument, Modoc County, California.

Those people that know me and have seen my image postings around the internet may have seen many of my postings contain the phrase, “No HDR”. The only reason I posted that, and have mentioned before, is that I’d get so many comments [...]

Picture: Early evening light over Mount Diablo from Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California

Two great tests today. The first is this test of the hosted embed widget from my PhotoShelter Archive. (It works.)
The second, and much more significant venture, is more akin to that Anakin Skywalker’s trek over to the Dark Side. This is [...]

I’m getting into a busy season again after a spring of no work, and a summer of little work. Not from the economy, but from my accident & kids home from school. I’m still interested in sharing these business links that catch my attention, but I can’t keep up the pace of doing them weekly [...]

Since I was gone for a week, there are a few extra links to explore, as a few are slightly older posts or ones that I found before I left town. I hope you enjoy them.
From Black Star Rising: 18 Tips for Being a Photography Original – With the premise that “the future of photography [...]

Picture: Elk in river during wildfire, Bitterroot National Forest in Montana; credit: John McColgan / Alaska Fire Service

Several times in the last few weeks, I’ve watched as photos have gone ‘viral’. In the Internet age, that means that photos receive immediate and widespread recognition and distribution on web sites across the globe. If you’re a [...]