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Shoot From The Hip
A street scene in old Stone Town, Zanzibar. As a young newspaper photographer in the mid-’70s, I used to look at the work of the great street shooters, from Robert Frank to Alex Webb, and wonder to...
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Hanging With Mr. Greene
Ivan Greene on a climbing wall at New York’s Chelsea Piers Sports Center. As someone who has labored in the vineyards of editorial assignment photography for more years than I care to recall, the one...
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My Conversion!
Experimenting with infrared opens up a whole new look for your photography. IR film was a finicky and difficult material to work with at the best of times, but a standard D-SLR can be converted easily...
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A Time For Giving
Machu Picchu, Peru. When you’re face to face with an ideal scene like this, having the right gear will ensure that you get the shot. This Article Features Photo Zoom It’s the time of year when the...
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Dodging The Magic Bullet
This Article Features Photo Zoom Famed Polynesian tattooist Roonui poses near his studio in Hauru Point, Moorea, French Polynesia Life Magazinephotographer Alfred Eisenstaedt was fond of recounting....
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It's A Small(er) World, After All
This Article Features Photo Zoom Nanjing Lu shopping area, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China I’ve just returned from six weeks of travel on three different continents, and one thing I’ve noticed for...
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My Go-To Gurus
This Article Features Photo Zoom The atrium area in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts on the Avenue of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania When it comes to polishing your craft, there’s...
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Scouting Report: Mexico
This Article Features Photo Zoom Whale watching in Laguna San Ignacio, on the Pacific coast of the Baja peninsula in Mexico. Because of its close proximity to heavily populated stretches of California...
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Master Of The Moment
This Article Features Photo Zoom Joe McNally’s new book The Moment It Clicks includes advice on shooting everything from twilight aerials from a helicopter over New York City to a wedding reception in...
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The Fix(er) Is In
This Article Features Photo Zoom Nazarenes from the Brotherhood of El Santo Sepulcro make their way through the Mezquita Cathedral during a Good Friday procession in Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain. It’s...
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In Praise Of Pea Soup
This Article Features Photo Zoom Morning fog slowly burns off in Tuscany, Italy. Any landscape photographer who prays and waits for conditions that lower contrast, decrease saturation, obscure...
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The Tools For Travel
This Article Features Photo Zoom Pirate’s Alley, New Orleans It’s the time of year to leave some gentle hints for friends and family as to what toys a traveling photographer might want to receive...
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Once Is Not Enough
This Article Features Photo Zoom Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg, Russia The pitfalls of modern mass tourism are nothing new. Way back in the ’60s, satirists were already...
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Lights, Locomotive, Action!
This Article Features Photo Zoom The New Hope & Ivyland train, New Hope, Pennsylvania One of my favorite things to do in between trips is to find photographic projects that are close to home. If I...
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I’ve Been Downsized
This Article Features Photo Zoom Making do with smaller lenses doesn’t mean giving up quality. The 70-300mm filled the frame for a gorilla close-up. Despite what we read in the headlines, downsizing...
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Scouting Report: Papua New Guinea
This Article Features Photo Zoom Huli warriors, Mt. Hagen Cultural Show, Papua New Guinea. It’s a hot, sunny afternoon on this tropical island in the Pacific, and it appears as though I’m in trouble....
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New Perspective On Iconic Subjects
This Article Features Photo Zoom Shooting The Bean at twilight and getting the Chicago skyline in its reflection makes for a colorful rendition of the icon—the two girls posing in front give it a...
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Along The Amazon
Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, a tributary of the Amazon River, Peru. There he is again! I swung around in the skiff with my D90 mounted with a 70-300mm lens, shooting, zooming and focusing at the...
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Portraits, Wide And Fast
Environmental portraits like this are the bread and butter for any photographer traveling to a unique place. In this kind of low-light situation, modern camera technology and new lenses make it...
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Slovenia
Piran, Slovenia lies at the end of a peninsula along the country’s tiny, 43-kilometer-long Adriatic coastline. When you think about the things that draw photographers to Europe, a few subjects jump...
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