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Photo Storage 101: How to Backup Your Photos and Lightroom Catalog

Back Up Your Photos and Lightroom Catalog: Complete Guide 2025

Use this guide to learn how to protect and back up your photos and Lightroom catalog with a simple, reliable photo backup system.

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If we were on the trail together, standing with our tripods waiting for sunrise, or hanging around the campfire, this is a snapshot of what I’d share with you.

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The Three Most Important Words to Transform Your Photography

How do we train our brain to keep us motivated for landscape photography? There are three important words to improve and transform your photography.

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A comprehensive guide packed with expert advice to speed up Lightroom Classic and boost performance for a fast Lightroom experience.

How to Speed Up Lightroom Classic & Optimize Performance

Lightroom & Photoshop

BenQ ScreenBar Halo Product Review from a Landscape Photographer's Perspective

Review the BenQ ScreenBar Halo that offers precise lighting and unmatched color accuracy when editing for landscape photographers.

BenQ ScreenBar Halo: A Photographer’s Perspective

Camera Equipment & Gear

Learn the correct way to set the white balance in Lightroom for nature and landscape photographs and achieve accurate colors in every image.

How to Properly Set the White Balance in Lightroom for Landscape Photographers

Lightroom & Photoshop

Straight path over a wooden bridge through a lush, summer Appalachian forest with a waterfall flowing underneath.

Lessons learned and actionable strategies to get out of a creative rut as a nature and landscape photographer.

Break Out of a Creative Rut: Strategies for Rediscovering Inspiration

Landscape Photography

How much photo storage do you need for photography?

How much photo storage do you need to buy for photography? Here’s an easy approach to estimate what size hard drive you need for nature and landscape photography.

How Much Photo Storage Do You Need for Photography?

Camera Equipment & Gear

Lessons in nature and landscape photography during winter’s dark embrace. Ideas to photograph the unseen beauty during these “darker” months.

Welcoming Winter’s Dark Embrace: A Photographer’s Guide to Creative Exploration

Landscape Photography

Easily Create a Photo Copyright Preset in Lightroom

Learn how to automatically copyright your photos in Lightroom and the 3 essential elements that must be in your image’s copyright notice.

How to Add a Copyright to Your Photos in Lightroom

Landscape Photography

Discover the mountain photography story behind the image Peak Companions plus a new photography tripod technique.

A Tale of Peak Companions

Landscape Photography

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