Recently, in addition to my Sunday series on outdoor portraiture, I’ve been featuring more portrait-oriented posts and, so far, people seem to like it. So today…

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know I like photographing trees. I even wrote a post about this passion— “A Tree is a Tree is a Tree.” The only think I like better that photographing and writing about photographing trees is photographing tree in infrared.

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting random typewriter keys for an infinite period of time will type the complete works of William Shakespeare. That perfectly describes my attempts to photograph motocross riders in the rain.

“When you’re shooting with long lenses, even if you’re shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject.”—Emmanuel Lubezki

On June 7, 2005, the US Congress issued a Concurrent Resolution that invited the President of the United States to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe Cinco de Mayo with appropriate ceremonies and activities.