The Alpha 900's large files will eventually take its toll on every owner's data storage strategy.  (Really, it's a good problem ...

I don't know about you, but in my experience as we get older the snapshots we take of our families become increasingly precious.  (Even...

How did I take this shot of a wine bottle and glass (below) using no fancy equipment other than a single off-camera wireless flash?...

A week before the Boston Seminar (which was a lot of fun, as always), Carol and I took a road trip to Vermont and New Hampshire, to "wa...

I have a really hard time throwing away images after I've selected the "good ones".  Even though I know that I'll probably...

Please welcome our first grandchild, Mikah James Clark to the world.  And rather than acting like a doting grandfather, telling you how won...

Michael White, a reader of my Alpha 700 ebook, writes in with this tip: "Dear Gary, When you talk about the remote control in Chapt...

On this trip (see previous blog post) for the first time I experimented with combining DRO (Dynamic Range Optimization, which on the A700 y...

Well, what can I say?  The Photo Expedition to Latvia occurred on July 13-20th 2008 and boy did you miss a memorable trip!  The weather wasn...

I live in Southern California, where it is relatively easy to recognize good outdoor light. Not so in Alaska, where we participated in our f...

Just like it is the wish of every soccer player to compete for the World Cup, so too is it the dream of every photographer to be published i...