Category: Photo Challenges

I’m writing this near the great Father & Mother of the Forest in California’s oldest state park, Big Basin. Having started down the Pacific coast

“Watch your head.”Jolting awake at the sound of laughter—3:00 AM.A stubbed toe.Gotta squeeze through sideways.“Watch it!”A scooter zooms inches away.“Watch that stack of old newspapers—”Too

If you’ve ever experimented with manual adjustment of your exposure settings at all, you’ve certainly played around with the width of the aperture in your

A road resplendent, stretching sanguinely into the horizon, exerts a pull as haunting as it is hypnotic. It’s not a uniquely American image—roads have been

I can still draw from memory the monsters that live on the wall at my parents’ house. Books, movies, cartoons, and so on all tend

How do you stimulate creativity? By definition, new ideas ought not be direct copies, but as any creator working on yet another fizzling project understands,

Gilgamesh and Enkidu, Adam and Eve, Romeo and Juliet, Sherlock and Watson, even the sun and the moon—a quick glance at the historical and mythological

The first time you get a sunburst in one of your photos, the feeling is extraordinary. Those crisp rays shooting out from your light source

From Marie Kondo to Nelson Mandela, gentle thinkers around the world have long advocated for the value of a peaceful life. This week, your photo

In case you haven’t heard (or been in a grocery store lately), Easter is this Sunday, the 21st. There’s a very specific decorative style and

Feeling like you can’t hone in on a direction for your photography? It can be frustrating to lack clarity in your efforts! Rather than accepting

Fertility and fecundity are in the air (albeit quite chilly air for some of us). For the next few weeks, not only will you see

(Not literally, of course, unless you or fate want it to be.) Much as I may idealize the brooding, saturnine artist, I’m ultimately an optimist

What could be more emblematic of spring—which begins today!—than flowers in bloom? Our California customers may have an advantage thanks to the super-bloom underway, but

Snow-mageddon is upon us here in Colorado, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get creative with your camera hunkered down at home. Make sure your

183 years ago today, American legends Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, and their fellows died in the final siege of the Battle of the Alamo… remember?