For the last two years that I’ve lived in Orlando, one park that I has challenged me the most was Blue Springs State Park.  The springs itself is beautiful, surrounded by high mounds put up by Native Americans more than a century ago.  High wood bridge wood walkways provide a long, natural walk through the forest and along the water. But I struggled to get a photo I really loved.  First, the park is almost almost too crowded for...

On Father’s Day 2010, I was hired by a local attorney to photograph his family at his beach condo in Cocoa Beach, Florida.  Last December, I also photographed a Christmas party for the same law firm, and was happy for the repeat business (the same attorney, Jeffrey, purchased a rather large piece from my display at the Winter Park Art Festival last March).           Two location were chosen: one on the...

No Respect for Other Tourists Tourists have officially ruined Luray Caverns with their Cameras.  Over this past Memorial Day Weekend, I flew to visit my brother at his apartment in Arlington, Virginia. As always, I had to visit one photogenic nature area. Normally my style is to find hidden, unknown, overgrown, and unpolished placed to shoot. Since the Florida Caverns are the only dry caves that I’ve explored, I couldn’t...

Late on a Sunday during October 2010, I flew to Ft. Madison, Iowa on a business trip to a factory out in the corn fields. Sitting in the back of the rental car, I was captivated by the stormy weather, sunset, and haunted mid-town America country architecture. My new 5Dmkii pulled out some spectacular shots with almost no light available. After these series of shots and an engagement shoot, I decided to keep the expensive camera body after...

I. The Dreaded Beach Shot: Traveling through the woodlands throughout Florida over the years, including its swamps, springs, parks and lakes, I have largely ignored one of Florida’s finest and most famous features: its beaches. Maybe I took myself too seriously as an artist to photograph the obvious. Perhaps, though, I’ve been afraid of the challenges of a good Florida beach shot. My cousin Michael – who lived on A1A on...

Just for fun over the Christmas holiday, I shot a time-lapse video composed of 800 photographs.  I tried to publish this earlier, but YouTube kept kicking off my video because of the song in the background; they instead want you to use a swap-audio feature with advertising.  Then I failed at embedding my own HD player,  I eventually gave up and never shared my first time-lapse video with anyone.  About 6 weeks later, I discovered...