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I am probably dating myself, but I have memories of sitting for hours looking through piles of National Geographic and Life magazines that my parents had collected through the years. My dad was a professional photographer, so I’m sure he had a hard time throwing them away since these were like journals with pages and […]

I have hired a professional photographer every year since my youngest daughter was one to shoot our family portraits. Want to know my biggest regret? That I didn’t start sooner. We didn’t have a lot of money after my oldest was born. I quit my job and our income went down by almost half. I […]

I’m not really a fan of lenses like the Lensbaby. If you’re not familiar with the Lensbaby, it’s a special optics add-on lens that gives either a tilt-shift, blurred or fisheye look to your image. It allows you to alter the plane of your subject which can dramatically blur the background of your image. This […]

Here’s a shot I took of an old fire hydrant. By using a macro lens, I was able to get in close enough to focus on the “s” ring. I shot it at a 5.0 aperture because I really wanted to capture the texture in the paint. If I shot at 2.8, a lot of […]