There’s one thing that’s annoyed me from the time I bought my first DSLR: neck straps. For some reason they always get in the way of my photography and I’ve never felt comfortable having them around my neck. I’m sure they’re useful for the right individual, but 99.9% of the time I don’t use them […]

This weekend I decided to drive down to the Getty Center and see the new exhibit – In Focus:  Ansel Adams.  The exhibit displays various photos of Mr. Adams in the Getty’s collection and shows the way his printing style has changed over time. During the later years of Mr. Adams’ life, he didn’t take […]

I’ve been busy this weekend creating a portfolio of stock images. The portfolio is for a stock photography company I plan on submitting an application to so I can contribute to their site. This specific stock site is pretty prestigious and their qualifications and guidelines for images are really tough, so here’s hoping for the […]

Ever feel like you can’t come up with any ideas of things to take pictures of?  You may be thinking to yourself that the only way you can take great pictures is by going off to some remote beautiful vacation spot or unusual city in order to find inspirational photographic elements.  Well, we all can’t […]

The rain was really great over the weekend and I had hoped that the clouds over Mohave and around the Eastern Sierra Nevada would be really amazing.  With that in mind, I left home at 3:30am today and went up highway 14, just above Red Rock Canyon State Park, hoping to get some great photos. […]

We’ve had a really dry winter here in California. I just read online that a storm front should be moving into the area on Thursday, so that should bring a huge relief to the state. Drought conditions here are really bad and hopefully the amount of rain coming will be good. There should be a […]

Aside from it being an incredibly beautiful day today, the Santa Barbara Zoo was just the place to go and get away for some sunshine and inspiration. The animals were all in attendance (except for the snow leopards, who were hiding in their cave and taking a nap).  The giraffes, gorillas, penguins, and black swans […]

I go grocery shopping on the weekends at a fairly new shopping complex near where I live.  It’s an outdoor mall and has all sorts of interesting stores.  The mall also has a multiplex movie theater that has some really great art panels lining the exterior of the building.  I’ve been looking for a good opportunity to take […]

I was looking through different podcasts on iTunes the other day and came across one called “Photography 101”. I wasn’t sure if it would be something that I’d like, so I gave it a look (it’s a video podcast). Scott Wittenburg, a visual arts teacher at Upper Arlington High School in Ohio, is the person […]

It looks like Adobe is planning to release a Lightroom app for mobile devices very soon. I’ve checked a couple of blogs and websites and they’ve mentioned that Adobe plans on launching the app in the near future. The app would make it possible to edit photos on the go just as you would with […]