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The other day after lunch at my favorite taco stand, I walked past a group of young women who  were having lunch and overheard one of them saying, “You can’t capture the essence of a person with a photograph.”

Fort Vasquez is a former fur trading post that was founded in 1835 by Luis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette, It is located 35 miles northeast of Denver and wasn’t all that far from my former home.

Can you shoot a high key portrait with a speedlight? I found it was quite possible to make a high key portrait of my former muse—Tia Stoneman using a speedlight as I did with today’s featured image.

There are all kinds of photographers out there in the world and I’m not just talking about portrait shooters, landscape photographers or astrophotographers. All of these genres also include the (at least) four major categories of photographers I’m about to describe. So lets get started:

The subtitle of today’s post should really be “Why I’m not a Street Photographer” because it’s not a genre that I’m all that good at or am even comfortable shooting. Believe it or not,—just ask my wife—part of my difficulty is that I’m basically a shy person and don’t want to impose on anybody’s privacy. When shooting street photography in Colorado I’m also concerned about the possibility of offending people, getting punched in the face or having a run-in with police.

It’s the time of year when you might be thinking about what kind of present or stocking stuffer you might want as a gift to your favorite photographer or maybe even yourself.