When downloading my photos from a photo shoot, the first thing I check for is sharpness. I zoom in to inspect the details. If a photo is not sharp, it does not get a second chance. It is quickly discarded. There is no amount of sharpening that can save a blurry photo. For landscape photography,…
New York City From the Inside
We are in New York City for five days, hoping to stretch our photography skills by shooting things we don’t normally shoot. Instead of the gorgeous landscapes of the Southwest or the recently visited Iceland (if you haven’t read our posts or seen our photos of Iceland, you are missing out), we wanted to try…
An Orgy of Temples
There are almost too many temples in Siem Reap, an orgy of sorts, with over 50 in the Angkor alone. With only a few days visit we could hardly visit them all. The ones we did visit each had its own unique charm. More importantly, each of these had its own photographic charm. Ale’ made…
A Bad Habit
The Habit We have a bad habit. We find something we like and we just have to do it. It doesn’t matter the cost or inconvenience, we do it. Take pizza in Rome, for example. Some number of years ago we discovered a place that serves delicious gluten free pizza, an oxymoron of sorts. Jumbo…
Experiencing the Light
We started our latest journey in Barcelona, a city of art and unique architecture. Arriving early at Logan airport, our Air France check-in agent was able to put us on an earlier flight, granting us an additional 5 hours in this amazing city. Little did we know, that our luggage would not join us on…
Christmas Lights on the Waterfront
Capturing the colorful Christmas Lights on the Waterfront There aren’t many lakes in Arizona, at least not many with water in them. The city planners in Tempe (just south of Scottsdale) decided a real lake was needed. So, they made a lake. Doubling as a reservoir the 225 acre lake is lined with walking and bike…
Inspirational Mission
Although our sunset shoot was a bit disappointing when we couldn’t find our saguaro forest, we were not done shooting. Looking for inspiration, we headed to the San Xavier Mission. The San Xavier Mission is a National Historic Landmark founded the late 1600s with the Church constructed in the late 1700’s. It is the oldest intact European structure…
Bodie – A Golden Oldie
A ghost town now, Bodie was once one of the largest mining towns in the U.S. In the late 1800’s upwards of 8,000 residents lived in this remote town east of the Sierras. The take? It is estimated that 35 million dollars in gold and silver was mined here before the town’s eventual decay. Today,…
The Many Faces of Buddha
We arrived an hour before sunset to shoot The Bayon Temple. As we approached, all Jeff and I saw were Buddha faces on all the towers – not exactly exciting for two landscape photographers who were experiencing a serious case of “BF,” Buddha fatigue. We tried to see the beauty of the temple… but the…
A Thousand and Two People Watching the Sunrise
The iconic shot in Siem Reap is the sunrise at Angkor Wat temple with temple reflected in the one of the ponds. The photography aspect of this shot is quite simple. What we didn’t realize is that this particular sunrise shot is extremely popular, even to non-photographers. Leaving the hotel in the pitch black at…
