When I woke up yesterday morning, I was quite excited to find that it was snowing.  The view outside my window was drenched in a light coat of white and bit fat snowflakes were fluttering down from the sky.  Sweet!  After doing a few morning chores, including checking the weather forecast, I headed out to [...]

I’ve decided to sell my trusted Canon 1D Mark II N digital SLR.  It is a USA model, with the usual wear marks but no big accidents, digs, or dents or be concerned with.  It has a brand new shutter with less than 4000 actuations on it and includes all of the original packaged items, [...]

If you’ve ever opened up a B&H catalog, visited their superstore in New York City, or walked around the exhibition hall at a big photo expo, you are probably well aware that the sky’s the limit when it comes to photography gear. From cameras and lenses to tripods and backpacks to software and memory and [...]

Announcing my January Print Giveaway Event! For every 100 fans I have on Facebook, I will give away an 8×12 print (or equivalent size for prints not available in 8×12) of choice to one lucky, randomly selected winner. A winner will be selected every time the counter reaches a new hundred members, so [...]

I took a quick trip to Barnegat yesterday in hopes of photographing a couple of much needed species, one of which was the Long-tailed Duck.  This year, they are pretty common at Barnegat, and when I arrived around 11AM the light was good enough to allow for some flight shots.  Barnegat is one of those [...]

So here it is, my first photograph of the new year.  I snapped this photo of a Dark-eyed Junco in my backyard, where it was feeding on some black oil sunflower seeds my mom put out.  It’s nothing special, but I really like juncos and have been trying to get a decent shot of one [...]

Having really cool photographs isn’t really much good when they just sit on the computer all day.  The true fun of photography is seeing your work in print, and printing, framing, and displaying your own work can be a lot of fun.  When I returned home in autumn after riding my bike across the country [...]

“But everybody does it!”
Okay, maybe the worst excuse ever, but a bunch of my photographer friends have been posting their favorite photos from the past year on their blogs, in Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.  So I figured, why not?
Here are my three favorite photographs from 2009.  I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t do [...]