NEW Light & Motion Workshop Opened for August 21st

My August 15th Light and Motion: Photographing the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair workshop filled within minutes of the e-mail announcement I sent out two weeks ago, and I’m still receiving inquiries from interested students.  As a result, I’ve opened a second intermediate/advanced level Light and Motion photography workshop for Saturday, August 21st. In addition, the [...]

Just One Spot Left in My August 15th Workshop: Light and Motion - Photographing the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair

Just wanted to give you all a heads up that there’s only one spot left in my August 15th intermediate/advanced-level workshop on Light and Motion: Photographing the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair.  Click on the link to view the detailed lesson plan and registration details!  There’s also still space in my August 14th beginning-level workshop on [...]

Beginning-Level Photography Workshop on August 14th: Light and Motion - Photographing the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair

An of ISO 100 and aperture of f/13 were just the right combination to give a shutter speed of 6.0 sec, allowing the camera to capture this Freak Out carnival ride at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair several times along its entire length, resulting in the blur of color shown here.

I’m going to [...]

For Budding Photographers: Secret #2 of the Exposure Triangle

Blueberries grow on the vine at Butler Orchards in Germantown, MD. Aperture: f/2.8, shutter speed: 1/2000 sec, ISO 800.

In my recent blog post, “Secret #1 of the Exposure Triangle,” I talked about using shutter speed to creatively express movement in your photographs.  Today, I’ll take you through Secret #2: Using [...]

For Budding Photographers: Secret #1 of the Exposure Triangle

Over the past year, I’ve noticed that at least half of the new photography students who come to me bring along with them a misconception about the relationship between shutter speed and exposure.  I’ll ask them how they decide to use a slow vs. fast shutter speed, and they’ll say something like, “When it’s bright [...]

New Stock Photography - Image Archive Site Launched

Children ride the bumper cars at the 2007 Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in Gaithersburg, Maryland. This is a cool photo that I came across as I was sorting through all my images to upload to the new stock photography site. I think I didn't fully appreciate it when I shot it in [...]

Let's thank Maryland for preserving arts funding in 2011!

In mid-2008, I was fortunate enough to receive a $3500 Creative Project grant from the Montgomery County Arts & Humanities Council for professional development in travel/documentary photography.  I received the grant not long after first starting to work professionally as a photographer, so this support was incredibly welcome and important to [...]