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Running is fun. Having goals around your running can make running even more enjoyable. However, finding balance can be a real struggle. Accepting limitations. Making the best of it when things don’t go as planned. Trying to do the most training you can without causing setbacks. It’s all part of what makes running such an enjoyable sport, even if it doesn’t feel like it in the moment

If you are thinking about going gout to take some photos don’t sleep on your small local parks. It is easy to always desire a trip to our many beautiful state and national parks. Going out to someplace that is more wild. Especially if you are a nature, landscape, or wildlife photographer. But, those are not the only places to find those parts of our natural world. There is a lot of… Read More

It can be a challenge to go out and create photography as often as we would like to. It can be even more challenging to go out and go someplace specific for your photography. But guess what? There isn’t a need to go anywhere to create your photography. If you are feeling the urge to create some photography it can be as simple as opening your door. Open that door. Smell the… Read More

As an artist have you ever had something you have wanted to do but just never gotten around to doing it. It wasn’t a priority at the moment. There didn’t feel like a sense of urgency to get it done now. So we just put it off, and off, and off. That has been me a lot of times. As a photographer, I have driven by local scenic areas and thought to… Read More

I love spring. It is a time of growth and renewal. It feels like anything is possible. And it is the beginning of the opportunities to start photographing flowers again. I never thought I would enjoy photographing flowers so much but it is something I have really grown to love. I look forward to it every year.

I will take any excuse to get outside and hike around and take some photographs. In case you hadn’t heard recently we experienced a total solar eclipse here in the United States. I am not an astrophotographer and I don’t typically photograph he night skies, but it was interesting. As it turned out that path of totality crossed a large section of New York state. As I did some research it looked… Read More

Spring recently arrived in upstate New York. And I always look forward to the new growth of spring. But here in this region of New York one never knows what the weather may bring. The date on the calendar is almost irrelevant.

Photographing wildlife is one of the most amazing experiences I have had as a photographer. Have I ever photographed a Lion? No. Have I ever photographed a wolf? Not in the wild. Have I ever photographed a grizzly bear? No. You may be asking yourself, how amazing of an experience can photographing wildlife be if I haven’t photographed any of these oft depicted big game animals? Photographing local wildlife is amazing, because… Read More

The best way to practice photography regularly is to use what you have available. So in that vein, I am going to write a series of blog posts about how I do that. First and foremost in photography you obviously need a camera. Any camera. Any camera at all. You can create beautiful images with any camera. This is especially true in an age when the majority of photographed are viewed on… Read More

I love a good adventure. And adventure can mean so many different things. Usually for me an adventure means getting outdoors in some way. A friend and I were planning to go for a nice long hike. Hopefully hitting some new to us trails. But, things didn’t go as expected. The morning of our planned adventure it was a snow storm. We couldn’t really find the trail parking spot indicated on the… Read More