This week we complete our two part series to walk through 24 photos from the first of my two Japan Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido winter wonderland wildlife tours for 2015. As you'll hear today, the weather gave us some unique challenges on this tour, but as usual we...
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Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido 2015 Tour #1 Part 1 (Podcast 459)
This week we start a two part series to walk through 24 photos from the first of my two Japan Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido winter wonderland wildlife tours for 2015. As you'll hear next week, the weather gave us some unique challenges on this tour, but as usual we had...
Hokkaido Landscape Photography Adventure 2015 #2 (Podcast 458)
Following on from last week, today I walk you through the second half of my Hokkaido Landscape Photography Adventure, a new tour that I just completed with special guest David duChemin and a group of incredibly talented photographers. We pick up the trail on January...
Hokkaido Landscape Photography Adventure 2015 #1 (Podcast 457)
Last week, I completed a 12 day Hokkaido Landscape Photography Adventure with special guest David duChemin and 13 other amazing photographers. This was the first landscape only tour that I've done in Hokkaido, and we had a pretty amazing time, so from today I'm...
Saying Hi from Hokkaido (Podcast 456)
With a few minutes in my hotel room before dinner, I figured I'd just record a quick message to say hi from Hokkaido on day eight of our first landscape only photography adventure. To hear my message listen with the below audio player, and here are the selection of...
My 2014 Top Ten Photographs (Podcast 455)
Following on from last week, when I walked you through my selection process, this week I'm going to tell you a bit about the 10 photographs that I selected as my 2014 Top Ten. Before we jump in and start to walk through my top ten, I'd like to thank all of you that...
2014 Top Ten Photographs Selection Process (Podcast 454)
With 2014 almost over, and no more shoots planned for this year, I went through my yearly exercise of selecting my top ten photographs, and today I share my selection process with you, as I believe this exercise is something that many of us can benefit from. I'll be...
Canon EOS 7D Mark II First Impressions (Podcast 453)
A couple of weeks ago, I picked up a Canon EOS 7D Mark II, and last week used it to shoot three days with the adorable Snow Monkeys in Nagano, four hours north-west of Tokyo, and I'm now in a position to talk about my first impressions. I'll follow up with a more...
Shooting for Stitched Panoramas & Avoiding Parallax Shift (Podcast 452)
Today I'm going to walk you through a few tips for shooting images to later stitch together to create high resolution panorama photographs. We're going to cover two methods for finding the No Parallax Point which helps with avoiding parallax shift, as well as looking...
Quality of Light with Darlene Hildebrandt (Podcast 451)
Today we bring you a great conversation with photographer and educator Darlene Hildebrandt, with lots of advice on the quality of light, making the most of shooting with natural light, and some great off-camera flash tips as well. Here are a few bullet points from our...
Productive Respites and Floral Fun (Podcast 450)
When it's not possible to get far away from home to a beautiful location, I love to just take a walk in the park with my Macro lens, and have some floral fun. Today I'm going to walk you through a few photos from a recent walk, and talk about how I take some of my...
Oirase Mountain Stream 2014 Travelogue (Podcast 449)
Today I walk you through two days of shooting in the beautiful Oriase Keiryu, which is a mountain stream not far from Towada Lake in Aomori, the northern-most prefecture of Honshu, the main island of Japan. At the end of October, one of my best friends here in Japan...