A few thoughts, and a look back at one year never to forget.
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During the past month our night skies have been visited by a celestial object not often seen by an unaided eye. Comet NEOWISE was only discovered in March and will be visible in the northern night sky until early August.
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This is a look at a decade of my photography and all the places I’ve been. I’ve lived in both hemispheres, traveled to 11 countries and seen some of the most iconic wildlife in its natural habitat. I have photographed iconic cities such as Rome and Bangkok and seen some of humanities greatest creations such as Angkor Wat. I was able to dive on the great barrier reef twice over two years and witness the change (death) in coral due to global warming. This post contains my best work and has many images I’ve never released before.
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Photo update of the Museum Fire.
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The 2018 edition of Luminar is the latest from Developer Macphun (soon to be Skylum as they are no longer creating Mac only software) and is meant to compete with the likes of Lightroom and Affinity among other popular photo editing software. When I first saw an ad several months ago for Luminar I dismissed it as another attempt at competing with Lightroom or the countless other programs for processing RAW files. I am pleased to say after using Luminar for the past week I am VERY impressed. It's not perfect, but instead is a very powerful image editor that easily stands on its own. I could see how many photographers could make the switch from Lightroom or other image editors. Read on for an in depth review as well as a breakdown of the 50+ tools at your disposal.
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I have another post I'll be sharing soon on Astro workshops but just thought I'd share I won the Shoot the Frame 2017 Landscape award for my image of Grand Falls and the Milky Way!
Click the button below for a link to the website and details. Its a great competition, this is the second time I've won. The first of which was December of 2015 for my Wanaka Tree image. Its open to all countries and every year they put out a book with the winners and finalists. Great contest, I'm honored to have won. :)
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Now that DJI's Phantom 4 Quadcopter drone has been out for a month plenty of people have got their hands on it and a few have written reviews on it. Nearly all of the reviews I found when I was deciding on if I should get this or wait for the Phantom 5 (probably released a year from now) had the same type of example shots. A shot in a park. A shot of a house. A shot of some treeline in a neighborhood. All at midday when the sun is high in the sky, etc.
If you are like me and are considering one for filming and/or aerial still photography purposes those example shots mean nothing. How does it perform 400 feet above a desert? How does it perform in 20+ mph winds? How recoverable are the blown highlights out of a 4k video file or the RAW/DNG 12MP still files? How much detail can you pull out of those files? How is the sharpness? How is the distortion? I'll answer these questions below.
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I thought I should update those in Northern Arizona that I have a show for the months of March, May and June at the Artists Coalition Of Flagstaff, which is now located in the Flagstaff Mall. The show ranges from landscapes captured during my past two years overseas in New Zealand and Australia to the night sky as seen in both hemispheres.
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