It seemed everyone across the northern hemisphere was outside trying to catch a glimpse of the blood-red moon this past Sunday night. I wasn’t sure I was going to go out and shoot it because a couple of hours before…
A Great Weekend in San Francisco: Saturday
I’m a bit behind in my posts due to some family issues we’ve been dealing with here at home. Anyways, I wanted to finish describing the wonderful weekend I spent in San Francisco a little more than a week ago.…
A Great Weekend in San Francisco: Friday
I’m a little late writing this post. On Friday, I travelled down to Marin to take a walk through Muir woods. It was around 3:30pm and there was some nice sunlight filtering in through the trees. This was probably my…
Wonderful Motivation from Brene Brown
Yesterday, my therapist (yes, I’m in therapy, because come on, what creative person isn’t?), told me about Brene Brown. In case you haven’t heard of her, she made a couple of popular TED talks about vulnerability and shame. As soon…
Manual Focus and the Bokeh of the Sony FE 55mm Lens
My daughter is really into My Little Pony and anime and recently purchased a cosplay outfit to wear at the Sac Anime Con. I put the Sony FE 55 1.8 lens on my Sony A7RII and started snapping away.…
Photography vs. Family
I see a lot of photographers, especially travel/landscape photographers, traipsing across the globe capturing stunning images of exotic and wondrous places. It looks so glamorous and exciting, tempered with the very real exhaustion that must accompany such long distances to…
Take the *%$#@! Lens Cap Off of Your Camera!
Happy Labor Day everyone! Today is a rant post. It’ll be short and sweet. I see way too many people with DSLRs slung around their necks walking around with the lens cap still on the lens. WTF? How are you…
Hey, Moron, Know Your Camera!
Yes, I’m the moron in this scenario. As I mentioned in a previous post, the family and I were down at the coast this past weekend and I brought along my trusty Sony A7RII. One of the drawbacks from Sony…
Settling for Popular Opinion Rather than Opt for True Quality
I am guilty of laziness frequently when it comes to sharing my photographs. The family and I were down at the beach this weekend and we decided to play a game of Scrabble on the resort’s outside bar patio. In…
Excited for the Trey Ratcliff Photo Walk
It’s still a few weeks away, but I’m excited to attend the last stop on Trey Ratcliff’s Photo Walk Across the USA. He’s been traveling across the country for the past few weeks hosting photo walks. The last one I went…