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Snowy winter scenes are a photographer’s dream until your gear becomes a moisture magnet. And that moisture can literally transform your entire photographic experience into...

Over the last five years, I have owned a ton of different Fuji gear, and in this blog, I will review all of it. I...

Camera firmware versions are a relatively new concept in photography. Some camera manufacturers are more generous than others, and some seem to force users to...

The goal of a beauty portrait is to highlight the subject’s physical beauty. The challenge in adding the word ‘creative’ to the mix is that you...

Have you ever wondered what it's like to photograph the raw power of Mother Nature? To feel the ground shake beneath your feet as you quite literally watch molten lava spewing into the sky? Throughout my travels, I've been privileged to witness incredible sights from all corners of our marvelous planet. However, I am bluntly honest when I say that nothing I had ever seen had even remotely compared to how epic it was to observe a volcano in action.

I was interested in working with AI on a local system instead of all these cloud solutions, where you often don’t know what happens with your data. My first contact with local AI solutions was pinokio, a system that automates localized AI installations. Pinokio runs lots of Python scripts locally, and I have lots of respects of these scripts, because they could do anything on your system. That’s one reason why I wanted to run them on a non productive computer of mine. The second reason is, that lots of AI models rely on Nvidias Cuda cores and wont even run on a Mac. The third reason is that I thought that I can speed up my workflow with very large scans with a system that has more ram (I was wrong on that one).

Created in Bolivia in 2023, these two images were made with the ambitious intention of having a diptych representing opposite moments, giant Sunset & giant...

If you enjoy taking film photos (and want to try pinhole photography), you know the satisfaction you get from a film photo that you just...

For many young photographers, signing with an agent means that they’ve arrived. It’s validation that the dream of a photography career has become a reality and that they have a business partner who can deliver a steady stream of assignments, so they can fully devote themselves to a life of creativity. But before you get too excited, let’s consider how the photographer-agent dream matches up with reality.

My first “real” digital camera was a Canon EOS Digital Rebel. All black, with a vertical battery grip and an impressive 6.3-megapixel sensor, it felt like a...