Here are a few favorites from 2025 from Lofoten, Sitka, Olympic, and Yellowknife.
2025 Favorites
Save/transfer your Photoshop workspaces
You may or may not know that you can organize the pallets in Photoshop in just about any way you wish. And that you can save these as Workspaces. (In the Photoshop menu, go to Window > Workspace>) This can come in handy if you have plugins that create their own pallets (like the various […]
Lofoten Tours Report
Utlakleiv beach. Last month I made my first trip to the Lofoten Islands in Norway for a pair of sold out photo tours. What a gorgeous place: towering mountains, rugged seashores, windswept beaches, frozen lakes, quaint villages, and more. Lofoten is the farthest north I’ve ever been, being above the Arctic Circle. That was cool […]
Oh, that sneaky Mother Nature
Gray Whale spouting in front of Mt. Edgecumbe. I recently returned from Sitka where we attempted to photograph Humpback whales bubble-net feeding on herring. But the whales finished up in Sitka pretty much on the day we arrived. Minke whale We made the best of it and were still able to photograph whales. In fact, […]
2023 Favorites
Here are a few favorites from 2023. It was a busy year with at-home projects so I didn’t get out all that much. But I did get out. Humpbacks in Sitka from both March and August, along with some birds and bears. Olympic National Park, the Palouse, and Yellowknife. 2023
Maven Filters review
Well, I finally had the chance to put those new Maven filters (affiliate link) to use during my Olympic National Park workshop. The Mavens are much easier to use than traditional filters and I’ve now put adapter rings on all my main lenses. For background, see my previous “First Impressions” post. Some of my older […]
Sitka whales bubble-net feeding
I was recently in Sitka to photograph the annual spectacle that is Humpback whales bubble-net feeding on herring. To say it was impressive would be a huge understatement. It was astounding. What I didn’t expect was hearing the sounds the whales made. Our captain was Gary Downie of Captain Gary’s Sitka Adventures. Gary put his […]
Maven Filters
High quality magnetic photo filters that will change your photographic life!
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Topaz Labs
Awesome plug-ins to reduce noise, sharpen, and resize images. Affiliate link!
Think Tank
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Lightroom Classic The Missing FAQ
Highly recommended. This is my go-to Lightroom book. Click on the book image. Affiliate link!