Wildlife Photography – Enjoy the Moment

We live on a wonderful world full of incredible animals to watch and enjoy and its easy to overlook the simple beauty when your eye is constantly pressed to the viewfinder. One thing I always try to do when out taking wildlife shots is to look up once in a while and just enjoy the [...]

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Friday’s Photo News

Bill Neill’s latest exhibit at the Ansel Adams Gallery called Yosemite Classics is going on right now and you can follow it online. You can also find many of these images in Bill’s book entitled Yosemite: The Promise of Wilderness.

Bill Neill’s assistant (and incredible photographic talent) John O’Connor posted an interesting image on his blog [...]

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Wildlife Photography – Find the Unusual

Its always nice to find something unusual when shooting wildlife.
Here’s a shot I took last weekend at the Brazos Bend State Park near Needville, Texas. I watched this Egret for thirty minutes standing on one leg and hunting for dinner. Great balance!

One Legged Egret
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon 50D set [...]

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Scott & Matt Host Nikon D Town!

Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowsky are at it again! I honestly don’t know when these two guys sleep. Not only do they each manage their own blogs and produce the Photoshop User TV podcast, but they also host, manage and teach at the Photoshop World user conference.
Now these two Nikon shooters have created a new [...]

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Wildlife Photography – Getting Closer

Getting close to your subjects is vital in wildlife photography. Both Canon and Nikon make some of the best “super-telephoto” lenses in the world for wildlife photography and these babies are incredible! Incredibly long, incredibly sharp and incredibly expensive. So what do you do if you can’t afford to spend thousands (or tens of thousands) [...]

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Wildlife Photography – Shoot for the Eyes

When you’re shooting wildlife your focus (and your camera’s autofocus point) needs to be the subjects eyes. If the eyes aren’t in focus it won’t matter how great your image looks, viewers will know that something’s missing. It’s a fact of life folks, the first thing a person “sees” when looking at a wildlife image [...]

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Landscape Photography – Bayou in Winter

I took this shot while hiking through the Brazos Bend State Park near Needville, TX last Sunday evening. The sun had just begun to set and the wind had died down, leaving this small lake still and calm. In the winter when the trees are barren I find black & white processing suits both my [...]

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Amateur Spotlight on Arnar Birgisson

Can you imagine living, working and photographing under these conditions?
Arnar Birgisson is an amateur landscape photographer from Iceland currently studying geophysics at the University of Iceland. He’s been photographing since early summer 2007 and posting to his blog since November 2008.
This young man shoots in conditions most of us would never even consider (especially those [...]

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Rainy Day Photography – Always Something to Shoot

Winter is the time of year when many mammals like the “woolly photographer” hibernate. These cautious animals rarely leave their den during the cold, damp days of winter although they can often be found at or near the various watering holes in the area. This is especially true of rainy Sunday afternoons here in North [...]

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Landscape Photography – Being Level Headed

In landscape photography its the little things that count. One of the most important aspects of creating a well composed landscape image is knowing where “level” is. This is especially true when your background is hilly or mountainous. We use our sense of “level” so much every day that a person will look at an [...]

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