When I replaced my previous computer with a 5K iMac, the experience changed the way that I view and work with many of my older images. It seemed that some of the photographs I shot with my older, lower resolution digital cameras that were originally viewed on older, softer CRT monitors didn’t compare with how they looked today on higher resolution, crisp and contrasty LCD screens.

I strive to keep a balance of subject matter on this blog and Anything Can Happen Day seems to be a perfect place to talk about my passion and feature another portrait of the amazing Pam Simpson.

As part of spending most of my photographic life as a film photographer, I’ve always believed that you cropped images in-camera but…

For more than 30 year, I wrote articles and product reviews for Shutterbug magazine—both print and digital. A few years ago I wrote an article for the original print edition about using lenses in other than the manufacturer’s mount on mirrorless cameras. Thinking about that story got me feeling nostalgic, which is a perfect segue for today’s post.

Infrared color photographs when made with IR color film have a fairy-tale look rendering infrared-reflecting plants in orange to purple-red tones. As in black and white IR photography, the results are difficult to predict, making them ideal for experimentation and the kind of surprises that photographers who are in their first phase of development always experience. In short, it’s an easy way to kick-start your creativity.