Okay, I’ll admit it. I’ve been so damned busy over the last 30+ years teaching others how to improve their photography, I’ve never actually taken a photographic workshop as a participant. I do follow the emerging trends, new techniques, and the latest-greatest advances in equipment. But most of all I pay attention to the younger artists who are not resigned to old ways of doing things. They are the engines that drive our craft forward.
Darwin Wiggett
One of those artists I follow and admire greatly is Darwin Wiggett, a talented Canadian pro …

To celebrate my upcoming return trip to the Canadian Rockies, I’m offering a 20% off sale on any prints of Canada on my website. The sale goes from August 1 through August 31, 2010. Just enter the code: “canadarocks” and at checkout the 20% will be automatically deducted. This is a great way to accessorize an office or home.

In two weeks time I set off for another adventure, this time back to the Canadian Rockies, a landscape that I dearly love. This time I’ll take my wife and 16-year old granddaughter (God help me!).
Right now I’m up to my eyeballs in prepping for the trip. I have to keep reminding myself that it’s about the journey, not the destination. Whoever thought that one up was definitely not a photojournalist.
Of course the hardest thing about this particular trip is knowing in advance that I’ll have a moody teen on …

Okay, all arrangements have been made and we’re ready to leave on our Canadian Rockies and coastal British Columbia adventure. Right now I’m going through my usual pre-trip crazies deciding what to bring. Actually, the big problem is deciding what not to bring!
You’d think that after 30+ years I’d have this down to a science, and I probably would if the damned field didn’t keep changing every 6 months! New cameras that include functions of 2 other devices (think multiple exposure meters and GPS devices), macro rails, a new 5mm-1,000 …