Creativity, passion, drive, these are all things that over time I’ve come to realize can never run consistently at one hundred percent. As photographers, we live creative lives with the next image always on our minds. We constantly strive to take our work to the next level. Both consciously an...
I have been a photographer for most of my life and throughout my 46 years or so of photography, my style has changed many times. When I first got heavily into bird photography about 14 years ago, the trend in North America was towards shooting birds as big as possible in the frame and I followed...
The topic of wildlife photography is an important one to me. I’ve admired the work of wildlife photographers since I was a kid, watching countless reruns of whatever documentary program the TV channels we received offered, or browsing, over and over again, the pages of National Geographic maga...
Standing out among the ever-increasing number of photographers is becoming increasingly difficult. However, doing so is still possible. The purpose of this essay is to give you ideas about how.
In order to stand out we have to do things that other photographers are not doing. In other words ou...
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I’ve been making pictures professionally for almost 20 years now. After my family, this is the greatest blessing in my life, and every day I wake up and feel grateful to have turned this passion of mine into a career. Even though I’m still learning after all these years, in reality m...
I had an epiphany of sorts, two years ago. For a variety of reasons, I seriously pondered the notion of selling all my gear and giving up photography entirely. I descended into “The Photographic Doldrums,” a deep photographic funk for roughly six months before “Back in th...
Spanish born Miguel Lasa has been taking photographs for more than 30 years. He has traveled the world in search of nature and wildlife subjects, spending time in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Arctic. His photographs of wildlife have earned him a number of prestigious awards, including...
Senior technical editor and forum moderator E.J. Peiker has been with NatureScapes.net from it’s inception. With more than 63,000 posts in the forums, and as the author of numerous NSN articles and leader of several NatureScapes Certified Workshops, E.J. has helped a countless number of ph...
Kari Post may be NatureScape.Net’s youngest forum moderator but she’s certainly no newbie to the nature photography scene. A lifelong lover of both nature and photography, she stumbled across NatureScapes more than six years ago, and has since become a well respected member of the st...
While Maxis Gamez may be the newest moderator in NatureScape’s Birds Forum, he’s no stranger to bird photography. A self-taught photographer, Maxis “got serious” about shooting just five years ago, but already his beautiful bird and landscape images have been published in magazin...
1. How did you get started in nature photography?While in grad school in the US, I worked full-time at the Missouri Botanical Garden as public exhibits coordinator. One of my duties was to source rainforest photographs for a large exhibit space attached to the Climatron®, the geodesic dome t...
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1. How did you get started in nature photography?I’ve been into photography since grade school, when I received a Kodak Instamatic camera for Christmas. My interest in nature subjects grew as I started traveling more and exploring some of the beautiful places this planet has to offer. L...
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1. How did you get started in nature photography?It may have all started in the backyard of my childhood home as I was lying underneath a hummingbird feeder trying to capture an image of one of these amazing birds with a simple point and shoot camera.
I got my first “real” camer...
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How did you get started in nature photography?I’ve had a love for the outdoors, nature, travel and adventure for as long as I can remember. I joined Boy Scouts after moving to Canada from England as a boy and the many canoe trips, backpacking adventures and camping trips we went on were...
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How did you get started in nature photography?I have always had a love for nature, and photography has been part of my life ever since I was young. I got my first SLR, a Pentax Spotmatic with a standard prime 50mm f/1.4 lens, in the late 60’s. I’d photograph almost anything that i...
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