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Costa Rica – Day 1 – To Monteverde
We were picked up at the Liberia airport by our driver. I was expecting an airport much like those in the Caribbean, jam packed and out of date. I was pleasantly surprised. It was very clean and...
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Costa Rica – Hidden Canopy Treehouses
I don’t think I could ever come up with the words to describe this place. I have been to very few hotels in my life that could compare. Hidden Canopy is a relatively new bed and breakfast on the Costa...
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Costa Rica – Day 2 – Zip Lining & Night Tour
No photos from our zip lining adventures. I took a camera that I forgot the memory card reader for. While here in Costa Rica, we only brought our iPhones and 1 iPad. I have the camera kit for the iPad...
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Costa Rica – Day 3 – Cloud Forest Nature tour
Our time here in Monteverde is almost up. We could easily spend several more days here without regret. Today we hit the cloud forest nature tour with one of the guides from the hotel, Koky. This man is...
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Costa Rica – Royal Corin Hotel in La Fortuna
We arrived at The Royal Corin hotel on Tuesday at noon. The hidden canopy treehouse is a bed & breakfast. This is a regular hotel. The busy season ended about 2 weeks ago, so it’s not crowded at...
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Costa Rica – Day 5 – Hanging Bridges & Night walk
We took two tours today. The first was to hanging bridges with our guide named Oscar. This was another walk through the rain forest (a different kind of rain forest). We had several folks on the tour...
View ArticleToms Creek Waterfall
Toms Creek Waterfalls is located just outside Asheville, NC. From the trail head it’s an easy 1 mile hike up a short path to get to the waterfall. Even though it was raining, it seems to be a popular...
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Lions with Topaz Clarity
I picked up the new Topaz Plugin called Clarity. I mainly use the Ex-Nik (now Google) plugins. I love them. I also use (on occasion) the OnOne plugins. The Topaz set hasn’t thrilled me (I’m not a fan...
View ArticleJasper Imaging
My buddy Stephen Hart recently starting doing Acrylic Facemount printing over at Jasper Imaging. I had the milky way over Bodie (seen above) done as a print. Stephen advised me what the best size would...
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His Light Workshops Palouse & Olympic trip
A little more than a week ago I returned from another His Light workshop. Boy we learned some important lessons on this one. We need to be able to communicate changes out to our participants better....
View ArticleTopaz is sharing the love this July 4th weekend
Gyln Dewis, a photographer I met at Photoshop World, posted that Topaz has got a sale on this July 4th weekend. $199 for the whole suite of products. I use several of the products (including their new...
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Blue Ridge Parkway – Decisions Decisions
While coming home from Nashville for a His Light Workshop, Carolyn and I took the Blue Ridge Parkway toward home. The above image was me stretching my legs on a little trail as Carolyn took a phone...
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Nashville 2013 His Light Workshop
The His Light workshop in Nashville, TN is over. I’m back home sleeping in my bed for a while, but looking forward to the next one. As usual I saw some old friends and met some new ones. I had my niece...
View ArticlePhoto gear: Garmin Nuvi 2555LMT
You don’t think of your car’s GPS as photo gear. Well I didn’t until I realized how important it really is to me. I use to to get from shot to shot. On workshops I plug in all the coordinates to where...
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Glacier and the Fuji
I just got back from a His Light Workshops to Glacier National Park in Montana. What an amazing place. We had a great group of attendees, some wonderful light and I got to see all my old photo friends....
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New York City
I was in New york City recently for a conference for my day job. Of course I had to bring my Fuji to see how she would perform around town. I didn’t shoot as much as I would have liked. The day I...
View ArticleHis Light Workshops presents New Orleans 2014
This will be our first workshop without Bill. We are hoping that it will be a great success! I’ve been researching and have found us a great hotel deal in the French Quarter. New Orleans, Louisiana –...
View ArticleLight Painting
I had the good fortune to hang out with Dave Black at our His Light Workshops Shaker Village workshop. Dave is funny, kind, a great educator and just a fantastic guy. I know we’ll hang out more in the...
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500 Rule
This week over on The Snake Tips I critiqued an image that someone sent in about photographing the stars. In that post I talked about when the stars will start appear to “move or streak” while taking...
View ArticleTop 10 Photo Workshop Tips
Bring plenty of memory cards and make sure they are pre formatted. There is nothing like getting someplace to find out that you still have stuff on your memory cards. Having enough memory cards will...
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