On Friday, July 6, beginning at 6:00 PM, I will be the featured artist at La Banque de Fleuve in Havre de Grace, Maryland. This is part of Havre de Grace’s seasonal tradition of First Fridays which plays out from May through October in grand fashion along its downtown streets.
I love First Fridays. There is music (and dancing) in the street by many bands and solo performers, from jazz to rock to folk. There is scrumptious food to be sampled from street vendors and our terrific town restaurants. Street performers …

For most of my life I’ve been a film photographer. In those days the mantra I followed was that when I pressed the shutter, my job was essentially done. I’d send my K64 film off to Kodak, get my transparencies back a week later, present them to my editors and cash my check. Done.
Not anymore. In today’s digital age, I figure my job is maybe 25-50% done when I press that shutter button. Even though I really do not do much post-processing, digitally captured images do need some tweaking, especially …

By now I hope you are all in the throes of summer, enjoying the warm weather and capturing lots of ‘keeper’ outdoor images. Of course, no passionate landscape/wildlife photographer ever gets enough time outdoors or enough keepers to feel fully satisfied. It’s like eating a great meal. At the end you feel wonderful, but in a few hours you’re hungry again.
As you go through your summer routine, why not take notes on areas of your photography that you’d like to improve? Do you have trouble interpreting light well enough to …

I received the following email a few days ago from one of my regular blog readers.
Les,
As an experienced and successful photographer I would appreciate your thinking on something that has bothered me for a long time. There is no end to the array of photography products that are introduced: cameras, lenses, etc.  There is always something new to be found in photography periodicals, store advertisements (e.g. Adorama, B+H )and so on. I ,for one, simply can never afford to get into that game and there has to be some …