Photo Tips

Travel Tip #92…Look Down

How many photos of cobblestones can you take? Maybe just one more. In Cuba I was enamored with the cars. I couldn’t get enough of them, and when I thought maybe I had reached my fill, another beauty came around the corner. I don’t even like cars. When my son was 12, his friend could…

Rio Chagres
Green leafy things #1
There is a 1-way bridge into Gamboa
Motmot bird
Green leafy things #2
Mateo’s Gamboa B&B
Tamarin monkey
Bird
Leaf-cutter ants
Green leafy things #3
Dinner on the deck at the Gamboa Rainforest Resort
Agouti
Follow the yellow wood bridge
Another bird
Midwestern migratory photo guy (Photus clickious)

Travel Tip #64…Go Green

When I photograph nature, I like to stay close to it. If I wanted all the comforts of home, I would stay there. So when I had the choice to sleep in a big ol’ fancy lodge in Gamboa, Panama, or Mateo’s humble little B&B, it was an easy choice. Not to mention, I spent…

15 below
downtown Minocqua
using the GoPro
the results
doesn’t look like much…
but it’s lovely
the moment just before the model steps on your GoPro
the moment just after the model steps on your GoPro
beer
critters
food
20 below
20 below plus an incalculable wind chill at 40 mph
swinging bridge
biggest snowman I’ve ever seen
a pretty big fish…and a dude that has bare, wet hands at 20 below
some of this
fresh groom
the warm day
and a little of this
bye…

Photo Tip #27…Dress Warm

Travel photography is all glamour, all the time. You get to be in the world’s most beautiful places under stunning conditions. People are happy to see you and they treat you well. Of course, sometimes you get to work 20-hour days. Sometimes you have to photograph snowmobiling at 30 below and sometimes you get to…