So lately I’ve been using my iPhone more and more for photography. In the past I have always dismissed it as a viable source since you couldn’t change lenses, play with the shutter or aperture. However with all the recent applications (apps) that have come out, things have changed. Creativity and minor adjustments can now…
This past weekend didn’t leave a lot of time for making pics. Sigh. I really need to win a lottery so I can focus more on photography and less on the day job. I did manage to slip down to Tempe Town Lake on Saturday evening for a few brackets. It is sort of a…
This past weekend we decided to drive up to Cave Creek AZ for their annual hot air balloon festival. They advertised tethered balloon rides, inflatable rides/bounce house, obstacle course, and night time inflating of the hot air balloons. Of course I played this off as a treat for our kids, but truth be known I…
I’ll have to admit this now before we get much further along. This blog will most likely be slanted towards pictures of my kids. It is not my intention for that to happen but I’m just say’in. Anyway, we loaded the family up and took a little trip over to the Desert Breeze Train Park…
Wow, here we are December 31st 2010. Hard to believe we are a full decade into the ’00s. It doesn’t seem that long ago we were all worried about Y2K. Somehow someway we survived and are staring at 2011. Crazy. This past year has been a big step for me in the photography world. I…
Typically the weather in AZ has two descriptions, hot or nice. And by hot I mean 115 in August. And by nice I mean 75 on December 18th. Occasionally we have rain but it never lasts more than a day. So you can imagine the surprise and delight when we had fog! Real genuine hard…
One of the biggest benefits of belonging to a photography group is you always learn something new. This past SmugMug meeting was no different. Ken Robert (co-organizer of the Meetup) lead the the mini-workshop on using multiple flashes for lighting a model. Ken started the session explaining that just because its pitch dark doesn’t mean…
I recently had the honor of 2nd shooting the Children’s Action Alliance (CAA) with Holly Baumann Ambuehl . The CAA is a very noble organization dedicated to serving the youth of Arizona. Find out more about them at http://www.azchildren.org. The event was held at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Phoenix. I got there early to…
It’s your birthday, so what do you do? Go out for a nice dinner? Cake and ice cream? Shopping? Nah. I do what any AZ photog would do…run to the desert and start shooting pictures. I arrived at Lost Dutchman Park just slightly before sunset. I was meeting a fellow photog, Chikku for the evening’s…