The end of any year provides a great opportunity to reflect—time to reflect on goals, dreams, aspirations, progress, setbacks, hopes, and challenges. Keeping goals and a clear vision in your mind of what you want to create can be a powerful tool in bringing them to reality. This visualization has helped me progress in multiple aspects in my life, perhaps...
If you haven't heard of Sharon Montrose or The Animal Print Shop, then get ready to live. Sharon is a renowned animal photographer that captures absolutely spectacular photos of all different kinds of animals in her studio. From buffalo to zebra to baby monkeys and everything else in between, Sharon has had it in her studio and captured the creature...
My squirrel pictures started almost by accident. I had a pumpkin sitting on my deck rail, and a squirrel came and sat on top, posing perfectly, and from there the ideas just grew. A friend suggested a tiny mailbox, so I made one, put tiny letters in it (and some peanuts) and along came the squirrel to "get his mail."...
I was in a rush, heading out the door with my camera bag one morning when an image appeared on the morning news that would change my life and the direction of my photography in so many ways. It was a black and white photograph of a hauntingly beautiful three masted ship that had been shot in the middle of...
Tin Man Lee works in the Biotech IT industry and has a great passion for medical imaging, such as MRI, PET and CT data management, image informatics and analysis. He received a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UCLA, but in his spare time, he pursues another form of imaging — wildlife photography. Tin Man has been in close encounters with...
What exactly are teleconverters and can I use one with my camera and lens(es)? A teleconverter allows you to increase the apparent focal length of a lens, giving you a greater telephoto effect than a lens alone. A teleconverter is basically a magnifying lens that is placed between the camera body and lens. Teleconverters are favorite accessories of nature and...
Marc Muench (www.muenchphotography.com) has been a professional landscape and sports photographer for over 20 years. Marc is now the "artist in residence" at dgrin.com for Smugmug, where he contributes on a regular basis to the "Muench University" critique thread. He is currently the photo editor of the National Parks guide, published by The American Park Network, which contain many of...
