Focal Optimums

Shorebirds have always been one of my favorite bird photography species groups. I love their high pitched calls, their very specialized and often exaggerated anatomy, and the way they usually move in ...

All of these taken on Micro four-thirds on recent casual birding trips.

Today was a nice overcast spring day and I had some time to head to a nearby park to do some bird photography. This was a particularly good night for bird behavior. Getting the flycatchers interacting...

Being back in Seattle after a bit of globe-trotting has sort of put a damper on my motivation for local photography. That hasn’t totally stopped me from getting out and seeing what’s happening around ...

Sometimes the sun, for reasons not fully understood, releases a massive burst of plasma. The effect, despite the sun being so distant, can manifest on Earth through increased solar radiation. This tim...

This was our second trip to Paris, last January was our first. It was nice to see how much my street photography has evolved in a year. Last year I was pretty conservative with taking pictures of peop...

Last week my wife and I took a quick trip to London and Paris. We only had about a day in London before taking the Eurostar to Paris, but the sun was out most of the time and the opportunities for str...

Yesterday I went downtown to take pictures. I wasn’t really feeling it, but wanted to get out anyway. I parked along the waterfront in Seattle near the cruise terminal. Immediately after getting out o...

Images taken over the past few days of people deep in thought, in moments of stress, and maybe a hint of sadness. Oh, and I’m back to black and white again for now.

Tonight on a photo walk put on by Fuji and Luminar I got to try the GFX100 ii. It’s a camera I’ve had my eyes on since it came out. See if you can tell which images were from the crop sensor Fuji XT-3...

As much as I love black and white, sometimes the appeal of color is just too strong to resist. This is a set of images with color inspired byTeresa Freitas’ work. A lot of these images are, in a sense...