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Resources To Help You Take Better Photos
This Article Features Photo Zoom Winter Forest, Yosemite National Park, California What I enjoy most about being a nature photographer is being in nature. Outside. Fresh air. Beautiful light. Peace...
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HDR
This Article Features Photo Zoom Last fall, I visited nearby Yosemite Valley to deliver a print and posters to The Ansel Adams Gallery. While heading home, I stopped at the Gates of the Valley turnout...
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Tradition?
This Article Features Photo Zoom Winter, Yosemite Valley, California Yes, indeed, Yosemite is an amazing place to photograph. Living in or next to the park for the past 31 years has given me many...
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Local Knowledge
This Article Features Photo Zoom Oaks near Yosemite Valley, California. I’ve said it before, and I’m here to say it again. Get to know a landscape! Get to know your landscape, a favorite location...
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Create Artistic Blurs In-Camera
This Article Features Photo Zoom Sand dunes, Death Valley National Park, California; Alders, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington. Impressionistic photography has caught on. The process of...
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Social Networking For Photographers
Yellow aspen and Mt. Moran, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Outdoor Photographer has one. My little sister has one. Now I have one. I mean a Facebook page, of course! Many photographers, amateur...
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Meditations In Black-And-White
Sand dunes at sunrise, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona, 2002 Wista 45SP 4x5 Field Camera I recently had a client ask to see some images—black-and-white nature photographs for a corporate...
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Best Of The Year
Forest Fog, Monterey, California, 2009 Many years ago, when I was involved with Ansel Adams’ workshops, I was fortunate to hear lectures by many master photographers. One of them was Jerry Uelsmann...
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Try Something Completely Different
Twilight at Scripps Pier, La Jolla, California, 2010 Twilight at Scripps Pier, La Jolla, California, 2010 During a recent school break, my family and I enjoyed a vacation at the beach. We stayed in La...
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Dancing Dogwoods
This Article Features Photo Zoom Dancing Dogwood, Yosemite National Park, California Life is full of lessons. When I went to Yosemite Valley this spring, as I have nearly every spring for the past 33...
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Intimate Detail
This Article Features Photo Zoom Rocks and surf at sunrise, Carmel, California, 2010 Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, EF 70-200mm ƒ/2.8L USM, 10 sec. at ƒ/32, ISO 100 I was at a party recently and was talking...
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Morning Light
This Article Features Photo Zoom Sunbeams and Forest, Sierra Nevada Foothills, California Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, Canon EF 70-200mm ƒ/2.8L USM Isn’t it funny how ideas get started? When my kids...
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Macro Magic
This Article Features Photo Zoom Lupine Leaves: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, EF 50mm ƒ/2.5 Compact Macro, 0.7 sec. at ƒ/32, ISO 100 When I bought my first camera in 1974, it came with a set of extension...
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Going With The Flow
Cascade Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, 2005 Rock and Water, Cascade Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, 2011. Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, Canon EF 70-200mm ƒ/2.8L USM, ½ sec. at ƒ/27,...
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Experience & Perseverance
Aspen and approaching storm, Conway Summit, California, 2010. Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, EF 70-200mm ƒ/2.8L USM at 160mm, 1⁄45 sec. at ƒ/16, ISO 400 When I'm teaching photographers how they can improve...
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Spring In The Canyon
Redbud and Merced River, Merced River Canyon, California, 1989. On Earth Day this year, my daughter and I visited the nearby Merced River Canyon, where I lived for 20 years. Although it was a little...
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Photographs For The Spirit
Lilies: Canon EOS-1DS Mark III, TS-E 90mm ƒ/2.8 lens For this column, I want to share some new images. Over my career, which began in 1980, creative inspiration has come from various sources. One...
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A Dance On The Beach
While working on a completely different photo, these gulls offered up an unexpected sunrise opportunity. Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, EF 70-200mm ƒ/2.8L USM, 8 sec. exposure at ƒ/27, ISO 100 I began...
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Natural HDR
Oak Reflections, Yosemite National Park, California, 2012, Canon EOS-1DS Mark III, Canon EF 24-105mm ƒ/4L IS USM. I first started teaching photography way back in 1980 for The Ansel Adams Gallery. In...
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Environmental Conservation
Morning Mist over Yosemite Valley, shot with a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, EF 70-200mm ƒ/2.8L USM, 1⁄10 sec. at ƒ/16, ISO 100 I'm a photographer and an environmentalist. The passion for each developed...
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Field Of Possibilities
This Article Features Photo Zoom Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, TS-E 24mm ƒ/3.5L, 1⁄6 sec. at ƒ/19, ISO 400. "To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of...
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The Quest To Be Better
This Article Features Photo Zoom Elderberry Leaves #5, Ahwahnee, California, 2012. This image was created from two frames that were stitched together with Photomerge in Photoshop. Canon EOS-1Ds Mark...
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Antarctic Dreams
This Article Features Photo Zoom Iceberg Arch, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. This photograph was taken on January 30, 2014. It was one of Neill's longest shooting days ever. Canon EOS 5D Mark III,...
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Need To Know
This Article Features Photo Zoom Clearing Autumn Storm, Yosemite National Park, California, 2013 This is the golden age of information. Photographers have access to endless amounts of guides,...
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Immersive Experiences
Seastacks at Sunset, Rialto Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington State, 2014. Canon EOS 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm ƒ/4L IS USM, 3 sec. at ƒ/22, ISO 100 Last summer, my family and I took a road trip...
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Variations On A Theme
William Neill made this photograph, "Agave Attenuata, Island of Maui, Hawaii," in 1994. It's a 4x5 film image. Since that time, it has been scanned to a digital file, and Neill has experimented with...
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Interpretation Vs. Description
Backlit ponderosa pine trees, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California, 2014. Canon EOS 5D Mark III, EF 70-200mm ƒ/2.8L The creation of my images is guided by my efforts to interpret the...
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Focus Your Fall Portfolio
Autumn Elm and Sunbeams, Cook's Meadow, Yosemite National Park, California, 2014. With autumn photography approaching soon, I want to share some ideas that may help you develop an excellent portfolio...
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New Tools, New Possibilities
Rocks and Surf, Pacific Grove, California A camera is a tool that allows others to see through our eyes. I’m a landscape photographer, so my camera allows me to capture how I see the landscape as I...
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The Edges Of Shadow And Light
“Cottonwoods, Ahwahnee Meadow,” Yosemite National Park, California, 2007. If I’ve learned anything during my long career as a landscape photographer, it’s that the learning never ends. We can always...
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