Photography Tips, Destinations and Adventures!

Our tips and techniques for sharp photographs will help you understand what you need to do to capture crisp and clear photographs.

I explain and illustrate with examples how you can use your telephoto to do what it is really good at, namely conveying a sense of vertical scale!

I am excited to share with you my tips for winter photography, based on several years experience of capturing the frozen, flat winter landscape of Canada's Lake Ontario!

The wide angle lens is probably the most often used, but also misused, lens in landscape photography. It is a powerful lens, as long as it is used with forethought and for the right scenes. In this article I share with you useful tips for composing powerful wide angle images, and I hope it encourages you to go out there and capture the beauty!

I am excited to share with you an excerpt from my new eBook "The Art of Nature Photography", where I discuss in detail the art of composition and the principles of aesthetics. In this excerpt I discuss LINE as a compositional element. Line is one of the formal elements that make up every image, the others being shape, patterns, form, texture, color and tonalities.

In this article I explain why the telephoto lens is my favourite lens for landscape photography and why it is such an important lens to take your photography to the next level!

Balance evokes a sense of stability in the viewer. It avoids the tension the viewer feels when he/she notices that the image is, for example, too heavy on one side.

We may not be conscious of it, but we perceive shapes in all our visual interactions with the world. To be clear, a shape is a two dimensional object with a boundary, such as a square, circle or triangle. Since shape is two dimensional, we are most aware of shape in two dimensional visual media such as photographs and paintings....

There is true beauty in simplicity and in this article I give you three quick tips for creating images which are evocative and compelling not only in what they include, but also in what they exclude.

Photography opens a world of endless possibilities. However, there also lies the danger, since it is easy to get distracted from following the path to a full expression of your photographic vision. In this article, I describe 5 important guidelines which will ensure that you do not lose your path to a powerful expression of your photographic vision.

Photography Tips & Photo School

In this post I tell the story behind selected images from my portfolio. In particular, I share with you the approach and the technique that went into making each image.

We all remember those times when we were desperately trying to capture a fleeting moment of stunning light, only to realize that the light was gone by the time we took the image. Do you want some tips on how to avoid such frustration? I am excited to share with you my published cover article, which addresses how best to prepare for and capture beautiful light in your natural surroundings.

The internet is full of advanced, fancy software which vendors and photographers say will transform the quality of your final image. Do you feel overwhelmed and don't know where to start with processing your images? Let me point you in the right direction with the few, simple processing tools I use for my images.

In this article I give an introduction to the substantial and complex assortment of techniques that can be employed to create compelling compositions. I hope these will assist you on your path to becoming a master of the creative process!