Today I learned more about color spaces in digital photos. As a photographer, I care deeply about how my pictures look. When you see one of my photos, be assured that I have carefully crafted the colors that you see, as well as the composition, the exposure, etc. Be forewarned: this is going to get […]

We read a lot about how great the cameras in phones have gotten. When we take pictures with our phones and look at them on our phones, they do, indeed, look fantastic. Here is one that I shot yesterday. The only postprocessing that I did was to crop it and boost the vibrancy. I encourage […]

I recently compared my Nikon camera to the camera in my Pixel phone. (See Comparing Nikon and Pixel Cameras.) In trying to respond to a comment on that post, I realized that there is so much software in any modern digital camera that I needed to write a whole blog post about it, not just […]

It is a cloudy morning and Scarlett is sitting next to a window. I decided to take advantage of the diffuse natural light to compare two of my cameras, a Nikon Z 5 and a Google Pixel 7 Pro. Let’s start with a side-by-side of the two with the Nikon Z 5 on the left […]

I am lucky to hear praise like, “What a great picture!” pretty often when I show people my photos. Less frequently, I get asked, “How do you do it?” I think many folks think that they cannot do what I do. Anybody can make great photos. Here is my two-step guide to doing it. There […]

I have been into macro photography lately, taking fun photos of things I have around the house, like salt and snapdragons, and occasionally venturing farther afield to find some flowers. Here are two of my latest. Pro Tip: Click on the pictures in this blog post and view them large, on a computer screen. They […]

Candy and I visited the World Bird Sanctuary yesterday, taking the opportunity to enjoy the unseasonably warm January day. I got a dozen nice photos including this one. Click through to see the rest of my World Bird Sanctuary photos.