Each week the moderators and staff of NatureScapes.net select one photo that particularly stands out in each of the image critique galleries. This photo becomes that gallery’s Image of the Week, and at year end one image is selected from these to be the gallery’s Image of the Year...
I built websites for years before nature photography ensnared me, so when it came time to build a site to show my photos I thought it would be a breeze. I applied every skill I had used building corporate intranet sites, and produced a site that was, well, blah. It had no life; it was sterile an...
Carolyn Wright has participated on the NatureScapes.net forums for years and I have come to respect not only her knowledge on legal issues specific to photographers, but also her ability to draw on real-world experience and explain matters in a way that just about anyone could understand.
Many photographers are looking for ways to market their images or share them with family and friends. Creating your own web site has been the most tedious and time-consuming option. While providing you with a high degree of control over the presentation “look and feel,” developing a...
Not many people are familiar with the Svalbard archipelago, and this might be one of the reasons why it is such a splendid place for nature photographers. The archipelago lies at 78º N and only 900km away from the North Pole. Although being that far north in the Arctic region, due to the circul...
For those of us who are Mac users and would like more than ever to finally have an “all-in-one” software program that can handle capture to finish, Apple’s Aperture, now in Version 1.5.2, shows fine promise towards that end. But as with any new software, there is a learning cur...
Nearly a year ago Apple announced a major new piece of software called Aperture, which was touted as being the first software devoted to photographers’ entire postproduction needs. Shortly thereafter Adobe responded with a beta version of new software called Lightroom, designed to meet sim...
One of the frustrating facts of photographic life with which macro shooters learn to deal is that depth of field drops as magnification increases. When I began trying to capture images of insects, I found that my dragonflies, for instance, could have sharp heads but not sharp tails, or vice vers...
I had been having a frustrating day working in my floating blind. Birds weren’t cooperating, the wind had come up, and it had started to rain. Enough was enough. After about three hours of lying on my stomach and fighting off mosquitoes I decided to call it quits. Just as I began heading b...
Would you like to take some interesting photos that will wow your viewers, and you get to enjoy some time in solitude? Why not try some star trail photography!?
As our planet Earth rotates around its axis every 24 hours, the star field that we see in our night sky rotates around the polar axis...
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In July 2004, I wrote a brief article for Naturescapes.net chronicling my transition from color photography to black-and-white and how it affected my perception of the bayou where I live. I also gave a description of my black-and-white conversion and printing methods. Now, at the end of 2006, mu...
One of the questions I get asked most frequently by nature photographers is how to make the best black and white images from color photographs quickly and easily. Most of the time “best” and “quickly and easily” are mutually exclusive, but fortunately there’s a way...
The following is an excerpt from Carolyn E. Wright’s book, The Photographer’s Legal Guide.
What is a Contract? Most hobbyists and all professional photographers need to use contracts to protect themselves and their business. A contract is a legally enforceable agreement enter...
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I’m often impressed by the ability of photographers to remember a tremendous amount of information about their photographs. Quite often they are able to look at an image and immediately recite where they were, what time of year it was, what time of day it was, what lens they were using, wh...
September 2006: The Bronco bucks and fails to break a rib, facts which feed my courage and inform me I am on the right track.
Even at 5 mph and with 158,000 miles and a rebuilt engine, this is a sturdy mare that does not falter. She shows no signs of weakness, only an occasional craving for oi...
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