Wow! It’s the 20th of May already. I hope you are all having a great spring! I have been busy with a number of projects lately, which has slowed me down a little on the Photos to Paint Challenge. So, please feel free to take until the end of the first week of June on this month’s challenge. What we have here is a little farmhouse from the heart of Provence in Southern France…
I recently had an opportunity to take some prom portraits. While taking the portraits, I encountered a situation where my subject had used an artificial tanning product. She looked absolutely beautiful but I quickly noticed that her hand was significantly lighter than her arm. She likely washed the tanning product off of her hand after applying it. To avoid having her hand become be the center of attention in the photo, I had to perform a color correction in Photoshop. Fixing skin tone in Photoshop can be tricky so I created a video tutorial to help others fix similar problems in their images.
I recently had a wonderful opportunity to photograph three baby Great Horned Owls perched in a nest about 30 minutes from my house. Of all places, the nest is located on the west side of Colorado Springs overlooking a Walgreens parking lot. They seem to have become quite a sensation among Colorado Springs residents over [...]
The Art of the Steal by IFC Films I am a nut about documentaries. I watch one or two per week and I am always thrilled when I find one that captivates me from start to finish. Today’s recommendation is The Art of the Steal, which chronicles a dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes [...]
I not only like to offer my clients every ounce of creativity I have, I also like to use the highest quality equipment to produce their images. After conducting some research on the best portrait lenses, I invested in Canon’s 85mm f/1.2L II. Does this lens deliver? Absolutely, but for an expensive professional lens it [...]
Sand Hill Crane – 5D Mark III, 420mm (300mm 2.8 II + 1.4X II TC), f/7.1, 1/500 sec. Although I primarily consider myself a travel photographer, I love the challenge of capturing wildlife in motion. There are so many variables that need to come together to create compelling wildlife images. Finding wildlife in the first [...]
In early September, Donna and I are traveling to Africa for a Kenya Safari with my good friend Ric and his wife Lisa. Why? Ric and Lisa are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary and they asked us to join them. After less than a nanosecond of hesitation, I said absolutely! [...]
While on our two-week Ireland adventure we visited two sets of islands off of the west coast of the Emerald Isle. The Great Blasket Islands, which I covered in an earlier post, are no longer inhabited but offer visitors a rich opportunity to imagine what life would have been like on a remote island. The Aran Islands, in stark contrast…
During our two-week adventure in Ireland, we made a six hour trek by car from Galway to Bushmills for a three-day stay on Northern Ireland’s beautiful Antrim Coast. [...]
While visiting Vienna for eight days last December, we decided to take two day trips…one to Bratislava, Slovakia, and the other to Melk, Austria. If you are intrigued by Benedictine Monasteries, seeing the abbey at Melk is well worth your time. The Melk Abbey, one of the most famous [...]
During our two week adventure in beautiful Ireland, we had an incredible experience at the Ireland School of Falconry. The school, which is the oldest established falconry school in Ireland, offers unique opportunities to fly a hawk around the gorgeous grounds of Ashford Castle – with a [...]
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Wow! It’s the 20th of May already. I hope you are all having a great spring! I have been busy with a number of projects lately, which has slowed me down a little on the Photos to Paint Challenge. So, please feel free to take until the end of the first week of June on this month’s challenge. What we have here is a little farmhouse from the heart of Provence in Southern France…
This month’s challenge photo was requested by a challenge painter so I have decided to make it available this month. I remember the day I was driving toward the coast in Northern Ireland when the sun reflecting off of this little church caught my eye. This was a classic moment of being captivated by a scene [...]
