MACRO VS. CLOSE-UP PHOTOGRAPHY
By Vicki Uthe Something became clear to me recently. I realized the difference between macro and close-up photography and concluded that I’m really more of a close-up photographer than a macro perso...
TAHOE AND THE WEATHER
By Vicki Uthe This blog is being written to showcase the extreme difference a day can make in the weather. It is also being shared to encourage you to go out in it, the weather I mean, and take advant...
LEE’S FERRY WITHOUT A BOAT
By Vicki Uthe In November 2016 we loaded our mountain bikes and tent and headed to Lee’s Ferry for a three-day campout over Veteran’s Day. The weather was spectacular. The ferry is generally the f...
PLATEAU POINT, GRAND CANYON
By Vicki Uthe We (my wife and I) live in Flagstaff, AZ which means Grand Canyon’s South Rim is a little over an hour away and makes for a glorious day of hiking. We like to go to the canyon for trai...
Arizona Snowbowl
By Vicki Uthe Hard to believe but ski/snowboard season is just around the corner. If this is your thing and you like to photograph I have a little something for you to do on those long rides up the ...
EASTER EGGS
By Vicki Uthe Easter is coming up in a couple of weeks and it is a fantastic holiday for shooting, especially if you like color as much as I do. Apparently my household doesn’t color eggs as often a...
RAW VS. JPG, ENHANCING COLOR
By Vicki Uthe I spent last spring break in Panama with my beautiful wife Ellen. I have nearly two thousand images to sort through and I hope you are as excited to see them as I am to share them. I’m...
White Sands, NM
By Vicki Uthe In September I had the opportunity to trip lead a photo workshop with Arizona Highways Photo Workshops to White Sands National Monument outside of Alamogordo, NM. We flew into El Paso fr...
Shooting with a 100-400mm
Author: Vicki Uthe I picked up a Canon 100-400mm 4.5/5.6 lens this past year and have had a lot of fun using it. I mostly picked it up to shoot sports, which I have done, but have found that I use i...