Top Image #1 - Confidence - Taken at the Hogle Zoo, Salt Lake City Have you ever considered looking back at your year as a photographer to decide what your top images were from the past year? I think this is a truly valuable and amazing process that everyone wanting to grow as a photographer [...]
Intentional Camera Movement Photography Zoom blur with pause - f/10 - 1.3 sec. Intentional camera movement or ICM, is a style of photography where the resulting image is intentionally out of focus or blurred. This can mean that portions of the image are un-sharp or blurry, or possibly the entire image. This is different than [...]
Image of the Week Brown pelican skimming over the water Image of the Week One of my favorite views is watching pelicans fly, especially as they are skimming just over the water. This one was skimming the water over Elkhorn Slough in Moss Landing, CA. If you are lucky, you will spot their wingtips break [...]
Sea otter mother and pup sharing a meal I have wanted to explore sea otter tours for a while, but only now gotten around to it. All I can say is that I was very much overdue to take one, and now I'll be taking sea otter tours on a regular basis. I went out [...]
Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Sunset - Taken 12-1-17 Exploring the Yolo Bypass The Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area is one of the lesser known gems of the Sacramento region. It comprises just under 17,000 acres on the east side of Davis, CA, bordered by Highway 80 on the north side, and essentially goes to West Sacramento [...]
Image of the Week Image of the Week China Beach San Francisco, CA Image Considerations The view from China Beach of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has an amazing number of viewpoints from where you can see it around the bay. China Beach in San Francisco is a somewhat [...]
Ivy covered wall - Rotational Blur - 1/6th sec. - f/7.1 Rotational Blurs - ICM Intentional Camera Movement Rotational blurs are another of the basic styles of Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). ICM is a style of photography that works with unsharp images. In this style, the details in an image do not need to be [...]
Image of the Week Image of the Week Faded Yellow - Flower Photography Image Considerations I found this beautiful faded yellow flower along one of the walking paths around Sutter's Fort in Sacramento. There are many beautiful flowers in the park, but I have managed to never notice these before. I spotted them on an [...]
Image of the Week Inspired Rose - Black and White Image of the Week Inspired Rose - Flower Photography Image Considerations I found this inspired rose in Sacramento's McKinley Park Rose Garden. This is one of my go to locations either when I want to shoot roses, or want to just relax in a nice [...]
Zoom blur of railroad tracks in fog, tripod used - 1/6th second - ISO 50 - f/29 Zoom Blurs – Intentional Camera Movement Intentional Camera Movement There are a few basic variations on the concept of intentional camera movement (ICM). One of the easier ones to get good results with are zoom blurs. The idea [...]