Scholz Lake – Bird Refuge with a View
By Sara Goodnick Looking for mountains with a lake in the foreground? Scholz Lake offers a beautiful view of the SanFrancisco Peaks, not far from Flagstaff, in northern Arizona. It’s also a bird ref...
Grand Falls aka Chocolate Falls
By Sara Goodnick An Arizona destination known only to a few but definitely worth a visit is Grand Falls. Also called Chocolate Falls, it only runs during certain times of the year. Its source, the Lit...
Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Flower Photography
By Sara Goodnick The Lensbaby Velvet 56 is now my go-to lens for flowers. It took some practice but it has been time well spent. About the Lens It’s completely manual. You will have to use your came...
“It’s kind of a gray day”…. So go outside and shoot!!
By Ken Brown Have you ever heard, or maybe you’ve heard yourself say – “Well it’s kind of gray outside, so it probably won’t be a great day to shoot”. Please do not let overcast weather ...
Traveling with Your Camera Gear
By Sara Goodnick Since there have been a few questions regarding flying with camera gear from some of our participants on various workshops, I decided it might be helpful to put together some info for...
Love your camera
By Rick Jacobi I think this is an important part of one’s photography. A camera that you love and inspires you to shoot. There are many cameras that a person can own today, and they are all good. Th...
Know your Equipment and Location
By David Halgrimson Since moving back to Minnesota I have been researching places to go for photo opportunities and found a couple near where I live. One is Swan Park in Monticello Minnesota 15 miles ...
Bugs are Beautiful
Author: Bruce Taubert For whatever reason I have become obsessed with taking macro and micro photographs of bugs. Beetles, files, wasps, bees, stink bugs, moths, butterflies, and whatever other bu...
New Lenses VS Old Lenses, and Testing Them
By Sara Goodnick Camera lenses produced before the digital age may still be in mint condition, but you might want to consider replacing them anyway. Here’s why. The newer lenses were designed sp...
WHO SAYS YOU NEED TO TRAVEL FAR TO CAPTURE GREAT ANIMAL PHOTOGRAPHS.
I’ve always thought that to be able to capture great photographs of animals, it had to be in the wild, which generally meant traveling to some place far away. Well, I’ve learned that that is not n...