I’m writing this blog post from Boston, where we’re expecting the arrival of Grandchild #3.  And of course we expect to take family portrai...

So here we were hosting a traditional Thanksgiving Day feast.  Just our luck we had a power outage that day, starting about noon and lasting...

Printed books are now on sale! Buy one of my printed books at Lulu.com and enter the code "TURKEY" during checkout to receive 1...

I can't believe it's been two years since I took studio portraits of our children and grandchild.  Only now the family is larger - ...

The shot above is a stock shot, using tomatoes taken from our garden out in back.  (Must have been the soil mix responsible for the largen...

Dear Gary, I am very much enjoying your posts, and as always, they inspire me to pick up my camera (aging but still wholly capable KM-7D) a...

I remember thumbing through a National Geographic magazine back in the 1970’s, and came across what I thought was an insanely phenomenal pi...

My last blog post on using directional light to improve apparent sharpness generated a LOT of responses from full-frame Alpha 900 owners.  ...

My father-in-law passed away a little over a week ago.  He did so on his own terms - at home, surrounded by people who loved him.  He was a ...

 “Wow!  That camera of yours takes great pictures!” said Howard, after seeing the professional-quality portrait I had just taken of him us...

The heat wave continues.  It’s hot and humid in Shenzhen, the mainland China province which manufacturers no end of consumer electronics go...