creative techniques

Crystal Ball Photography…

‪”We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” ~Ray Bradbury One of the things I love about photography is traveling to new places, and trying out various creative techniques. I keep a few favorite tools in my camera bag which include neutral density filters, a beloved Singh-Ray Gold-N-Blue polarizer, and a funky fish-eye…

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Create a dramatic image by adding a texture layer…

One of my favorite ways  to add drama, depth and definition to a photo is to add a texture layer to the original image. A texture layer can be as simple as another photograph that you have taken, clouds, aged peeling painted walls, flowers, granite, anything goes. I like to photograph textures everywhere I go…

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St. Augustine’s Birding & Photo Fest… fun at night!

We had beautiful weather last week in St. Augustine for Florida’s Birding & Fest. Lots of opportunities to photograph birds, landscapes, and cityscapes at twilight like the ones we did for my two night photography workshops. We worked through some rain issues the first night, however everything turned out great! Special thanks to my wingman…

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