I was reminded repeatedly on my recent trip to Yellowstone that metering in snow scares people. Any time we were near other photographers you could hear the timid “now snow is +1, right?” call out to a companion. From reading his latest BT Journal my friend Moose Peterson heard plenty of the same when he was there. But as Moose points out, snow can be your friend…

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I’m just back from a great trip with my friends Will & Lawrence to Yellowstone and southern Montana. Due to scheduling issues we almost missed the winter season but got there just in time for some good snow scenes and plenty of animals along the roads…

The great weather in Death Valley last week brought out lots of tourists and made getting into dinner a tough proposition. So with an hour to spend before we'd be seated there wasn't enough time to go back and look at images, so my daughter Annie and I decided to have some fun with our flashlights and the old Twenty-mule team Borax wagon out in front of the Furnace Creek Ranch. If you've never done it before there is almost no limit to the fun you can have with a flashlight or two (or your flash units) and just about any subject you can light up... Read more »

I’m in no way a graphics designer, but as a photographer and safari leader I spend time and money promoting my work and my trips. From time to time I have an opportunity to feature a large display banner. Next week at the NANPA Summit our partners Journeys Unforgettable will be sharing a booth with B&H and featuring our joint trips. So it was time for a quick banner. Fortunately as a photographer I have one of the world’s most powerful graphic arts tools—Photoshop—at the ready. But building a banner requires using it in some different ways from the way we usually do as photographers. If this is a task you’ve been worried about taking on for yourself, it is easier than you think. Read on to learn how I did it…

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Canon has once again raised the bar for entry level Digital SLRs (D-SLRs) by bringing many of the features found in its mid-range 7D model down into a new entry level Rebel--the EOS Digital Rebel T2i. In addition to the 7D's 18MP sensor (with improved low light performance up to ISO 6400 and lower noise compared to the other Rebels) it features a faster frame rate than the T1i (3.7fps) and takes the new SDXC storage cards. Video buffs will appreciate not just the 1080p HD capability but the external microphone jack for quality audio. The full feature list includes: Read more »