Category:Photography
Postcards from Vancouver Island
Every year, off the coast of Vancouver Island, the place I call home, the herring spawn by the millions. The usually dark green water turns...
Don’t Have a Fast Lens? Here’s How to Capture Beautiful Background Blur
Blurry backgrounds are a powerful and popular tool for photographers. Blurring your background makes it easy to de-emphasize details in the scene that don’t...
A Word About Art-Making
One of the happy perils of posting your work online is the very real possibility of criticism. I suppose posting it anywhere exposes you,...
The Best Lightroom Presets in 2024
This article was updated in July 2024 with contributions from Ana Mireles and Jaymes Dempsey. I use Lightroom presets for a huge percentage of...
Three Questions For Choosing Your Gear
In two days, I pack the truck and head north up Vancouver Island to meet my wolf guide, Tom, before spending two weeks camped on a...
Which Lens Type Is Best?
This article was updated in July 2024 with contributions from Kunal Malhotra and Jaymes Dempsey. Which is better, a prime or a zoom lens?...
Artists & Explorers
This one is a longer one, but I think it’s worth it. Put the coffee on, find a place to settle in. And then...
19 Dos and Don’ts for Beautiful Images
The moon is a beautiful, breathtaking, captivating subject – but if you’ve ever tried to photograph the moon, you’ve probably discovered that it’s frustratingly...
Grizzlies of the Khutzeymateen
Ten years ago, I got off a de Havilland Beaver, the quintessential bush plane of the Canadian north, and stepped into the Khutzeymateen Grizzly...
8 Tips for Beautiful Landscape Photography in the Rain
Many landscape photographers try to avoid shooting in the rain, but I encourage you to give it a chance. Rainy scenes tend to look...