How often do you hear that the best photographs are the simplest ones? Sometimes it is expressed as filling the frame with the subject. Can this lead to a blind spot in your photography? This photo of Old Faithful by Ansel Adams fills the frame and does illustrate that simple…

I took this shot on my first trip to Sequoia National Park which is in the Sierra Nevada Range between Yosemite and Death Valley. It’s a heck of a drive uphill to about 7000 feet. A COLD DAY 🧊 It was a cold day in December 2017. On my first…

My home town of Folsom, California, has three bridges right next to each other. It is Thanksgiving week of 2020 and I decided to stay close to home instead of being off somewhere hunting for a great photo. I am glad I stayed because I got two of my favorite…

I am taking an online class from Serge Ramelli. He is a photo editing wizard. I decided to go to Yosemite in mid-November to work on one of his assignments. It was not necessary to go to Yosemite for the assignment, but it was as good a reason as any…