Bad Weather = Great Light

When the weather blows in and the conditions are downright uncomfortable thats when I want to be out in the field making new images. Take for example this shot from Black Walnut Point on the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. I was leading a workshop during Tropical Storm Hanna and we had been confined to the conference [...]

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West Virginia Autumn Hotspots (Published this month on Mountain Trail Photo)

West Virginia holds a secret. Its mountains rival New England in tapestries of red, orange, gold, green and blue. And there is no other finer spot in all of West Virginia in the fall than the Monongahela National Forest. The Monongahela National Forest contains over 910,155 acres of mountains, [...]

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WV Workshop Reduced from $795.00 to $525.00!

Just to let everyone know, due to the state of the current economic situation in the U.S., we are dropping the price of our WV Autumn Workshop $270.00 from $795.00 to $525.00 per person. Anyone who signed up in advance at the 795.00 price tag will be reimbursed the 270.00 to be sent out immediately. [...]

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West Virginia Autumn Workshop 2008

West Virginia holds a secret. Its mountains rival New England in tapestries of red, orange, gold, green and blue. And there is no other finer spot in all of West Virginia in the fall than the Monongahela National Forest. The Monongahela National Forest contains over 910,155 acres of mountains, [...]

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Nature Conservancy 2009 Wall Calendar

Just found out that my image of Great Falls National Park will appear as the January image in this years 2009 Nature Conservancy Wall Calendar.  The calendar goes on sale this fall as well as being sent out to the Nature Conservancies 1 million plus members.

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Great Falls Private Workshop

Well, we had another private workshop this past Saturday. We have doing a lot of private workshops in the past year with an average of 1 or 2 per month and some running as long as 2 weeks. It’s great to be one-on-one with a client because you know that they are getting your full [...]

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Getting beyond the “Big Picture”

I love to shoot big wide angle landscape just as much as the next nature photographer, but I find that the intimate microcosms are what really do the location justice. It’s hard sometimes to pay attention to the small details when you are faced with vast rolling mountains, majestic waterfalls or wide open meadows, so I make sure [...]

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Prepping for Presentations

Looks like this week is going to be all about prepping images and putting together presentations for a bunch of upcoming lectures. On October 1, I will be giving my “West Virginia Photo Hotspots” presentation to the Vienna Photographic Society in Virginia. Next weekend is the Claude Moore Park Photo Expo and I will be speaking [...]

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Emergency Shooting session at Great Falls National Park

Well I have been pretty much confined to the office for the past week and I was feeling like I needed to get out into the field before my head exploded. I hit the road on Sunday morning to meet fellow photographers Chris Kayler, Alex Mody and Pini Goldman for a quick session in Mather [...]

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Three more images from the Chesapeake Bay

Here are three more images from over the weekend I made at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. Upon arriving before sunrise to enter the refuge we were halted due to the road being closed for repairs. No big deal. We parked our cars along the side of the road and simply walked into the refuge. As we approached [...]

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