Canon 1D MarkII w/ 600 f/4 lens - iso 800, 1/400th f4.5

I love foul ball photos. I love the drama as a 5 ounce rock falls out of the sky and into the hands of expectant fans. This photo was…

I recently ran across this video by Radio Lab about “Moments.”

“How would you define a moment?”

If you’ve ever heard a group of photographers sitting around talking about their craft or editing their work I’m positive that…

On assignment, people often ask me what times during the day are best for photography.  I have the same answer repeatedly - dawn, dusk, and noon.  Noon? Definitely, as sometimes when the light is brightest and highest you can capitalize…

I got up early one day last week to shoot a panorama of the sunrise, as it peeks above the horizon, with the Mississippi River and the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis. It was going to be a beautify…

The group on top of the Beehive in Acadia National Park, 520 feet up

For 10 days in late June and early July I had the opportunity to share my love of photography with a group of 15 students from around…

I want to make sure everyone knows about David Alan Harvey’s Burn Magazine - a online magazine he started back in December 2008 with a mission to promote the work of emerging photographers.

The same year he introduced the The Emerging Photographer…

I recently spent a good chunk of my nights in my basement building a bracket to shoot panoramas. This first prototype is made of 1/4 inch aluminum and stainless steel hardware. It attaches a Canon 1D MarkII digital camera body…

I stumbled across these cool videos on You Tube from inside the Canon factory that makes lenses.  It’s really geeky, but I found the videos to be kind of interesting.  There are three videos I posted them all here.  The…

The Girl Project, which aims to put disposable cameras into the hands of teenage girls in an effort to build a book and traveling exhibition on female adolescence, is looking for young women to participate in the project.

“The photographs, according…

It’s always a balancing act for me when photographing the homeless.

For starters, it takes quite awhile to connect with people who live on the streets.  They live in their own underworld and trusting others isn’t at the top of their…