Well, on the one hand, (luckily for me) the 39 degree temperature and 40+ mph gusts down here in town kept me from hiking to the top of any mountains…

This afternoon at about 3 pm, the winds reached their peak for the day, and the smoke got very thick here in the Mtn. Ridge subdivision. Tate was home sick,…

Wanting to get a better feel for where the fire actually was, after dark I headed up Lookout Mountain to see what I could see. As of midnight, the fire…

After spending the weekend up in the mountains for Reade's 12th Birthday ski party, we came home to find a wildfire burning the hillside adjacent to our subdivision. When I…

Last week I got together with Dr. Eva Strube of Avenue Vision here in Golden to create some marketing images for use primarily on their recently revamped website. I was…

So, what color was the piece of paper in yesterday's post? There is no way to tell from the picture posted; it could have been black, white, or any shade…

Although this one has been oft-described in camera manuals and photo 'how-to' books galore, I wanted to cover the subject in a bit of detail, as it can be helpful…

In yesterday's image, I overtly gave a frame of reference (swim meet) that led to the covert suggestion that the image was of the wet tile floor near the pool.…

So, there we were. Saturday morning, weather people called for 1-4", we got 12" instead. Early AM swim meet in Evergreen? OK, we're game!So, amidst the 3 hours of waiting…

For those of you with DSLRs who are unsure of why anyone would want to use the raw file format, I thought I'd give a quick example of one of…

Since the Jan-11 issue of Shutterbug Magazine is now is off the stands, I can now include the content of the 'Web Profiles' column that recently profiled my website. Each…

I spent the day documenting the craftsmanship of Colorado luthier James Einolf in his basement workshop. An astounding amount of very fine, detailed woodworking is required to handcraft a guitar.…