Category: Photography

I’m thoroughly enjoying my new gig as Cruise Consultant – it seems to be the perfect evolutionary step that uses much of what I’ve learned over the past couple of decades in a fun new way. There’s a lot to learn about the business side of things, but I’ve...

Even now and then I get involved in a project whose end result thoroughly pleases me. About 2 years ago, I got an email from a fellow in New Jersey who was looking for some caribou images for a CD he and his band were producing. To make a...

Some of the readers of this blog are excellent photographers – here’s a chance for you to win some great prizes with your images. Enter Alaska Airlines Share the Moment Photo Contest. Choose and upload a photograph that best captures your favorite vacation moment from anywhere in the world....

I know better than to shop at Walmart – you get what you pay for. But I wanted some prints yesterday, and that seemed like the easy road. Well, easy it was and cheap it was. But although the 4×6s are “good enough” for the purpose I want them,...

Perhaps you sometimes need to travel without your partner, and then get to a great spot where you really miss him/her. Here’s a fun trick to great memories – have a photo taken of yourself and add him/her in later with Photoshop! I think the photos below took 3...

Photographing your dream trip and sharing it with friends, as it happens or later, gets easier and cheaper all the time. Digital photography was the biggest change in that direction – where I used to always at least subconsciously ask myself if the photo I had framed was worth...

Or at least trying to photograph polar bears. This solo sport helps develop agility, coordination and mental acuity in survivors. It’s also great fun to take photos of the participating athletes....

Sorry, the links have been removed as they died. Do you have some photos that bring back memories of a very special travel experience? If so, you could win a $25,000 dream vacation! About every 6 weeks, Condé Nast Traveler magazine and Expedia are giving away a trip for...

I suppose commuting is one of those things that the average person in North America just has to tolerate in order to make a decent living. For a while yet, driving beween Carcross and Whitehorse is part of my life for that reason – Whitehorse is where an important...