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    Show Good Behavior

    Wildlife photography can be very rewarding in many respects. Simply being out in nature at sunrise and sunset trumps sitting in front of a computer checking email and social media. Getting good animal images requires knowing their behavior and mannerisms so you get an education about each...
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    Keep It Wild

    Aerial view of mountains with a river flowing through the coastal plains of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Mason Cummings. Stomachs churned as our tiny plane jerked up, then left, right and back down. I glanced up and saw Nathaniel vomiting into a Ziploc bag. We passed a mere 100...
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    Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

    With nearly 80,000 acres of freshwater and brackish marshes, open water, alkali mudflats, uplands and river delta, the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge is an oasis in the desert of northern Utah for birds, animals, insects, plants and people. The refuge is on the western edge of the Central...
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    Let The Fog Roll In

    I love photogenic scenes and situations that speak to me. Those that have a mysterious quality, evoke a soft mood, connote stillness, convey a peaceful easy feeling and intimate tranquility, all cater to the serenity of my inner psyche. I love golden sunrises and sunsets as they dispense...
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    Depict Simplicity In Your Images

    Simplicity: The state of being simple, uncomplicated or uncompounded; the quality of being plain and without unnecessary things or decorations. Images that depict simplicity are reduced to their basic elements. They leave no doubt in the viewer’s eyes as to what the reason was to make the...
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    A Year Photographing The National Parks

    For the centennial anniversary of the National Park Service, I had a dream assignment photographing the national parks. I traveled to and photographed all 59 (at the time) of the U.S. national parks in one year for National Geographic. While other Nat Geo photographers were spending up to a year...
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    Color Accents

    The color that’s portrayed in a photo has a subconscious impact on the viewer. I don’t want to analyze every hue and their meanings, so I’ll just share a few examples: Blue: Tranquility, peacefulness and confidence. Yellow: Warmth, caution and energy. Green: life, freshness and growth. Purple...
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    Weather Or Not: Get The Image, Part 2

    Last week, in part 1, I discussed keeping yourself and your gear dry during fog and rain, and offered tips for successfully shooting in these conditions. In the final part of this two-part series, we’ll take on snow, cold weather and clearing/impending storms. Snow I remember when I was a kid...
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    Huntoon Point

    Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 28-70mm f/2.8L USM at 28mm, Gitzo tripod, Really Right Stuff BH-55 ballhead. Exposure: 1/8 sec., ƒ/16, ISO 100 (multi-image HDR focus stack, RAW captures). Less than three hours from Seattle, an alpine landscape beckons. Here, you can discover communities of life...
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    Weather Or Not: Get The Image, Part 1

    Accompany me on a photographic sojourn into the land of inclement weather. It’s a glorious destination shrouded in cold and mist. A land whose frigid hands welcome you as they derive their power by sucking the juice from your camera’s battery. It’s a land surrounded by an ominous and mysterious...
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    All Creatures Great And Small

    Diademed sifaka, Propithecus diadema (CR) Females may only be fertile one day a year, limiting this lemur’s ability to rebuild fragmented populations. LEMUR ISLAND, MADAGASCAR (Photograph by Joel Sartore / National Geographic Photo Ark) The cover of National Geographic’s October single-topic...
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    Perform A Photography Background Check

    Everyone should perform their own background check. This is especially true when it comes to photography. Always perform a photography background check before you press the shutter for every image you create. The more often you do, the more frequently you’ll create photos without distractions...
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    10 Favorite Places For Fall Color Photos

    When you think about places for fall color in the U.S., New England probably comes to mind, and though it deserves the notoriety, it’s just one of many regions to witness the resplendent change of seasons. No matter where you live, there’s likely an excellent destination to photograph the rich...
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    What Will I Be Given?

    I’ve run hundreds of nature photography tours across the United States, traveling to almost every state doing so. Since 2014, I’ve lead numerous photo safaris to Tanzania and each year the number goes up. I continue to add more at the request of my participants. I’m now up to four safaris per...
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    The Benefit Of Photography With Friends

    I suspect that many of you reading this article will be able to relate to the sentiment of preferring solitude when you’re out shooting. I don’t know why, but any inclination to socialize or be around other people when I’m out with my camera in nature vaporizes into thin air. It’s something that...
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    Last Frame: Gotcha!

    Photo By Russ Burden “Every April, I run back-to-back safaris to Tanzania,” explains Russ Burden. “One of my favorite locations is the Ngorongoro Conservation Area near Lake Masek. The environmental diversity attracts wildlife of all species. “This mother cheetah had four 1-month-old cubs who...
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    Isolate The Subject In Your Photographs

    There are a number of questions that I ask myself when I hunt for a composition. “Would it be better as a horizontal or vertical shot? Should I use a wide or long focal length? Should I consider a higher or lower vantage point?” All of these questions are good ones to ask whenever you’re setting...
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    Stormy Sky And Rainbow

    Photo By Beth Holmes Grand Teton National Park is best known for its peaks that rise quickly from the mountain floor. It’s one of the most-visited parks in the National Park system with 3.5 million visitors last year. Most visitors come during the summer months, and popular destinations within...
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    My Fascination With Photographing Waterfalls

    As someone who spent more than half his life growing up in New York City and living in some of the densest cities in the U.S., you could imagine my awe when I saw my first waterfall. It was in 2009 and I had flown out to Portland, Oregon, for work. A coworker took me into the Columbia River...
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    The Art Of Seeing, Part 3

    In the preceding two articles of this three-part series, we began by exploring the “vocabulary” of composition in landscape photography and considered the key elements of composition from basic ideas like shape and line, to more abstract concepts such as the “viewer’s path” and negative space...


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