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2010 Botswana Blog
Day 1: Meet and Greet
Day 2: Around Tree Lodge
Day 3: Wild!
Day 4: First Full Safari Day
Day 5: Mufasa
Day 6: At the Speed of Africa
Day 7: Ele in the Channel
Day 8: All Quiet on All Fronts
Day 9: Big Cats
Day 10: Kill, kill, kill
Day 11: The Ele That Walked to the Leopard
Day 12: Cats All Day
Day 13: The Long Haul
Day 14: Herd Behavior
Day 15: Human Herd Behavior
Some of the Rest
2010 South Africa Blog
Day 0: Lecture and Shoot
Day 1: Wet and Dry
Day 2: South Africa History Day
Day 3: Out of the Cape
Day 4: The Long Drive
Day 5: The Tsitsikamma
Day 6: The Tsitsikamma
Day 7: Goodbye Landscapes, Hello Animals
Day 8: To the Preserves
Timeout: Some Useful Information
Day 9: Rhinos? What Rhinos?
Day 10: The Kill
Bonus Day: All Safari, All the Time
Final Full Day: Cubs
Wrap-up 1: The Soap Opera Continues
Wrap-up 2: Equipment
2013 Botswana Blog
Workshop Prep Time
Pre Workshop Scout
Royal Tree Lodge
Into Moremi: Lost Elephant
First Lion
Baby Ele, 2-min Leopard
Ten Spots in a Tree; Boats
Warthogs and Rest
Antelope & Birds on Sticks
To Savute
Wild Dogs at Sundown
Lion Buffalo Standoff
The Night
Savute to Chobe
Day 13 Livingston Falls
Bonus Photos
Some Tony Shots
Safari Wrapup
2016 Botswana Blog
1. We Start Again
2. In Transit
3. Still in Transit
4. First Day, First Night
5. First Full Drive
6. Happy Hippos
7. More Travel, Plus Meet and Greet
8. First Impressions of Moremi
9. Just Another Day in Moremi
10. Moremi Too
11. Boat to Camp O
12. Walking in the Delta
13. Goodbye Camp O, Hello Savute
14. Waiting for the Leopard
15. Hyena Only
16. Moving to Khwai
17. Khwai Provides
18. Khwai Goodbye
19. Back to Maun
20. Meno a Kwena
21. Bushmen
2016 Botswana Wrap
And a Short Followup on Lists
2023 Botswana Blog
South America
Lost in Translation
Up Into the Cordillera Blanca
Into Santiago
Photography in the Galapagos Islands
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Money Where His Mouth Is
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Galapagos 2014 Blog
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Rabida Turtle Cove
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Chino y Bartolome
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A Bear Story
Between Buses
Bosque del Apache
On the Digital Trail to Nowhere
Weighty Advice
The One-Bag Photographic World Traveler
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Teaching Points
1— Composing Reflections
2— Sunrise/Set Exposure
3— Moving Focus Points
4— Learn from Failure
5— Impact versus Technique
6— What are you Saying?
7— Take the Shot
8— Plan your Shooting
9— Immediacy
10— Exaggerate Human Form
11— Birds in Flight
12— Look the Other Way
13— Stitching Tip
14— Go Back and Repeat
15— Landscape Two-fer
16— What Photogs Do
17— Moments
18— Dumb Luck
19— Seeing O'Hare Again
20— Fireworks
21— Selecting Sky
22 — Momentary Rays
23— Improving Wildlife Photos
24— Dealing w/ Color Temp
25—How Cold Can You Go?
26 — More on Cropping
27 — Find the Rest of the Story
28 — Things You "Can't" Photograph From Behind
29 — Photograph Out of Season
30 — Being Ready to Be Ready
31 — Creating Dimensionality in Your Image
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Photo Capture Discipline QAD
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Macro Photography QAD
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Photography: Craft or Art?
Settings Versus Seeing
Optimal Data — Entropy
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Optimal Data — Exposure
Optimal Data — Summary
Tip of the Iceberg
The Pain of Photography
The Top Photography Myths
Good Design, Good Images
I'm Constantly Being Chased
How Many Photos Did it Take?
Is Landscape Photography Done?
Chasing Galen
Hope Versus Fear
What is Dynamic Range?
Taking Photos Techniques
Two Photo Approaches
Stop Fearing Noise
Highest ISO to Set?
What Causes "Soft"?
That Was Bad Advice...
Color Me Confused
Pano-stiching a PC-E
JPEG or Raw?
What's So Important About JPEGs?
Raw or JPEG Redux
Making Great JPEGs
The Raw File Problem
The Raw Fallacy
Setting Correct Exposure
What is ETTR?
ND Filters for Water
Framing Selfies
A Snappier Bridge
Improve the Photographer
What's Your Goal?
Correctly Placing Blame
Your Turn to Get Better
The Random Game
What Level Are You?
Who is Your Curator
Are You Neglecting Your GDP?
The Push/Pull of “Style"
What’s Your Biggest Problem?
Outrunning Those Behind
Collector or Photographer?
Things You Should Do But Don't
Getting Better at Photography
How Do You Keep Up?
When Will You be a Pro?
Where’s the Story?
Magic Moment
Dealing with Cataracts
Learning from Others
Learning from Sports Photogs
Learning from Landscapers
Gear Questions
Blame the Equipment
Proper Way to Grow
Magic Camera Settings
Reducing Equipment Risk
Simplify Your Photography
Post Processing
Where Do You Start?
Deleting Images
Making B&W from Color
Sharpening
Correcting Linear Distortion
Feline Flip-Flop
Dealing with Many Images
Reducing Image Loss Risk
Getting DNGed
Process Specifically
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Reviews of compact cameras (smaller cameras with permanent lenses):
Leica D-Lux8 Review
Fujifilm X100VI Review
Nikon Coolpix A Review
Panasonic LX-100 Review
Sony RX1 Review
Dec 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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