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Photos From The Big Lake and the Time Before Boreas Arrives
Now that the showy colors of fall are decaying on the ground, and the frost appears each morning, and the signs of lasting ice are appearing on the…
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Deleting 1,000 Photos a Day
This newsletter is going to be about the end-of-year (maybe end-of-decades of work) clean up.
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It Isn't Possible to Take a Picture of the Milky Way
Years ago, I posted a photo of the Milky Way on the internet, and someone replied to my post, “It’s not possible to take a picture of the Milky Way… You…
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A Touch of Fall Color
A couple of years ago, I taught one of my Smoky Mountains fall photo workshops. I had been doing fall Smoky Mountains workshops for years and knew when…
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Photos From the Boundary Waters
Back in spring of 2023, I was planning my 2024 schedule and imagined that if I stuffed my summer full of photo workshops that I’d leave my fall open for…
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Photos from Summer
I’m amazed each September when somehow summer switches off and fall begins.
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The Death of the Photographic Illusion
The Photographic Illusion is dead. So, what can you do about it?
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Photography is Exploration
Over ten years ago, I wrote a series of essays about what I thought photography was about.
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Photos From a Return to 'Home'
It’s hard for me to say I have a home place.
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Photos from Hot Summer Nights
It’s summer.
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Flower Photos, Because Everyone Should Get a Flower Now and Then
I’m taking the easy way out for this newsletter issue.
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Getting Your Photo Groove On After a Road Trip
It has been 28 days since I got back to Grand Marais after my road trip to South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota.
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Photos from the Dakotas
In May, I taught two photo workshops in the Dakotas.
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Missed Bridges on the Way to Photography Spots
Since the beginning of May, I’ve canoed about 30 miles of the Upper Iowa River (link is to my trip report), and traveled to the Badlands, Black Hills…
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Arbiter Elegantiae of Photography
Most social media platforms have farmed out the job of Arbiter Elegantiae to algorithms, and I wonder whether or not AI will soon be the judge of merit…
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2025 Photo Workshops Announcement
As most or many of you know, my main photography gig is teaching photography workshops.
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Photos from The Empty Project
In March, I started a new project called The Empty Project. It involves two restrictions: use a 35mm lens, and try to make the scene look and/or feel…
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