For the past five years or so, I have been teaching a digital photography course at the Dallas Arboretum.   We usually offer the class in the fall, but decided to add a February class this year. Even with the cold weather this morning, we still had a bunch of people come out for a morning of education and walking around the gardens.   We covered all the basics...

Well, this weekend was the big Portrait Open House.  I was thrilled to see so many people there – especially some I haven’t seen in quite a while! It was tough to round everything up – but having all those different portrait samples in one place made for a very interesting show.  I really enjoyed looking back over these images from the past...

It was an absolutely wild weekend for me at the Southwest Professional Photographers convention.  I was very pleased with how my prints scored – especially my print “Silent Cypress”  I was floored when the image was scored a 98 – making it one of the highest scoring prints of the entire competition.  It was also awarded a Judges Choice...

It has been almost two weeks since the last blog entry…. whew!  Things are starting to get out of hand, I guess.  It’s crazy around here these days because of two very big events coming up.  This weekend is the regional print competition and I’ve been running crazy trying to get my prints ready to enter.  Then I get to spend two stressful days...

A while back, I had the pleasure of photographing author Marci Mangham for her upcoming book.   To say that Marci was reluctant to have her portrait taken would be a huge understatement.  She was pretty much terrififed for some reason.   We ended up with two potential shots for the book cover – this was one of the favorites.  (if you want to see the...