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If you haven’t already figured it out, I have an affection for New Mexico, Mary is always talking about moving out of state; she prefers Arizona but I’m allergic to temperatures higher that 120. I prefer New Mexico, especially, Albuquerque, where I made today’s featured image,

Just about all high-level amateur and professional race drivers will tell you that they started at the same place: karting.

Back before the pandemic when I used to travel a lot more than I have since, one question I would often get from readers was: Do you prefer large capacity memory cars or smaller capacity cards? And why? My answer is that I prefer large capacity cards for lots of reasons.

In a previous post on this blog about infrared photography, I suggested that you shoot in monochrome mode. no white balance needed.

I started the concept of Farace’s Laws when I was writing for ComputerUser magazine back before the dot-com bust. Shortly after starting the gimmick a CU reader emailed that he had “heard about these Farace’s Laws for years” and wanted to know what it was all about. The idea was based on the TV show Burke’s Law and with my tongue firmly in cheek, I continued using it in my writing about photography.

Today's Post by Joe Farace Chiaroscuro, as Italian Renaissance painters called it, is the use of differing contrasts of light to achieve a sense of three dimensionality within a two dimensional frame. Light has four major characteristics including color, quality,...