Pro Tips
Run a Background Check: It’s Most of Your Photo
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: your subject is not the whole photo. I know, betrayal. You spent all that money on a big lens, got up before sunrise, skipped the second…
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What's in the Bag
What’s in my Camera Bag? An Iceland Photo Adventure
Iceland is a landscape photographer’s dream location. The colors, textures, and generally otherworldly scenes and features throughout this tiny island offer incredible photo opportunities. However, the lens selections to give…
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Pro Tips
How to Get this Shot: Mid-Hop Roo
Name the animal after the place it lives. Makes sense. What if the place is named after that animal? Don’t care? That’s how you get the Kangaroo Island Kangaroo of…
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Pro Tips
Three Time-honored Ways to Photograph Wildlife in Africa
Who are we kidding, there are a million ways to photograph the incredible wildlife of Africa. However, when you distill African wildlife photography into key categories, you’ll find that the…
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Learn by Example
How to Get This Shot: Window into Zion (a.k.a. Drive-By Photography at 20 MPH)
There are few things in photography more frustrating than invisioning a killer photo and being told, “Cool, you get about two seconds to make that work.” Welcome to the Zion-Mount…
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Pro Tips
An Essential Lens for Photographing Greenland
When headed into a landscape-oriented photo trip, one often thinks about the classic landscape lenses first. You know, the 18-55mm or 24-70mm types. In other words, your wide angles that…
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Pro Tips
What Kind of Photographer Are You? (And Does It Even Matter?)
At some point, every photographer gets asked the question. “What do you shoot?” It sounds simple. Wildlife. Landscape. People. Travel. For some photographers, I’m sure that’s an easy answer. But…
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What's in the Bag
What Is the Best Lens for Photographing Wildlife in Alaska?
Although it’s a loaded question, it’s a critical consideration when prepping for a photo expedition in one of the wildlife hotspots of our planet. Do you go for the flexibility…
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Pro Tips
The Art of Nothing: Using Negative Space in Wildlife Photography
There is a moment in every photographer’s life when you realize you’re stuck. You’ve been chasing the subject. Zooming tighter. Filling the frame. Getting closer, closer, closer until your photo…
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Learn by Example
How to Get This Shot – Monarchs Edge to Edge
Getting a photo of migratory monarchs filling the frame like this is a coveted photo for any nature photographer lucky enough to embark on a monarch migration Photo Expedition. The…
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Pro Tips
Shot Settings: Shorebird on the Shore
There is something deeply satisfying about photographing shorebirds. No dramatic mountain backdrop. No epic predator-prey interaction. Just a small bird, busy at work, doing what it has done for thousands…
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Pro Tips
Advanced Settings for Wildlife and Landscape Photography
When in front of extraordinary wildlife or sensational landscapes during a nature photography expedition, your settings make a big difference in the overall quality of your photos. In this article,…