My Sunday series about making outdoor portraits continues today with a portrait of Anna Lieb, who I photographed for a first time at a group model shoot in Phoenix. Arizona. I was lucky enough to photograph this amazingly beautiful model a second time at another group shoot a year later where this image was made.

Today is the first day of winter and is the Winter Solstice. Here in the Northern Hemisphere the Earth will be tilted as far away from the sun as it will be all year. It’s also the shortest day — and longest night — of the year.

Cameras with mechanical shutters use an electrical contact within the shutter, which closes the circuit at the appropriate moment in the opening process. Some people just call it “flash sync”and, as I unfortunately found out, it’s different for every camera

I consider myself lucky that I grew up in a time that there were no video games to keep my attention on indoor activities.—Karch Kiraly

my wife Mary is on Facebook and showed me a world jumble of apparently random letters with the concept being that the first three words you see are what a person can expect from 2025. And since this Magic Eight-Ball test was on Facebook, you know it has to be the truth, right?