While card failures do occur, in all my years of using both CF and SD cards I’ve only had a few such occurrences and I’m pretty sure each time it was caused by user error. So here’s a few tips to avoid this happening to you:

It doesn’t matter what person, place, or thing you’re photographing, the ultimate subject of any photograph is light.Whether that light occurs naturally or artificially, light has four basic characteristics: quality, direction, quantity, and color.

I was having coffee with professional photographer and all around good guy Barry Staver last week and we were talking about the Panasonic Lumix GH7. The GH6 may be slightly cheaper but since the the word on the street is that while Lumix GH6 is a superb video camera, the GH5 or even G9 are better for shooting still images. Then there is the GH7’s size…

When my wife asked me to recommend a book about photography to her sister, I suggested Discover Your Self Through Photography by Ralph Hattersley. This was written in 1971 long before digital photography and smart phones and eschews the traditional approach to f/stops, shutter speed and film speeds prevalent at the time but it reaches deep inside to, in fact, help you Discover Your Self Through Photography. Then there is…

This casual portrait of my young Dad was made in the backyard of his parent’s—my grandparents—home on Montford Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland sometime around 1940. I don’t know if it was my Mom who made this shot but since he’s smiling it could have been and I like to think that it was.