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10 Powerful Photography Lessons from LIVE! 2025

I’m still riding the wave of inspiration from LIVE! 2025—it was a flood of creative energy and photography lessons! Each year, I challenge myself to teach something new and do my best to share a mix of practical knowledge and motivational stories. No matter how my own presentations shift from year to year, one thing […]

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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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How to Setup Your Photography Office for Post-Processing

Learn the triple threat to setup the best post-processing and printing workspace for your photography office.

How to Setup Your Photography Office for Post-Processing

Landscape Photography

The good news is once you start seeing light in this way, you cannot turn it off.  It changes the way you view patience in nature photography.

A Lesson in Patience & Light in Landscape Photography

Landscape Photography

My biggest piece of advice to improve your flower photography: practice photographic promiscuity and perennial wooing. So what does that mean?

Improve Your Flower Photography with Promiscuity and Perennial Wooing

Landscape Photography

Can I learn Lightroom if I'm not comfortable with technology? Photography Blog Cover Image

Advice on how to learn to use Lightroom Classic if you are not comfortable with technology and if Let’s Get Organized is right for you.

Can I Learn Lightroom if I’m Not Comfortable with Technology?

Photography for Beginners

Discover the Magic of the Clear Blue Sky in Landscape Photography

Advice on scenes and locations that are perfect for photographing clear blue skies in landscape photography images.

Discover the Magic of Clear Blue Skies in Landscape Photography

Landscape Photography

Nature Photography Lessons from a Toddler

Out of my comfort zone. When I started landscape and nature photography, one of the last places I ever thought I would find myself is sitting with a macro lens among a bunch of flowers trying to find the right composition and angle. My inspiration to shoot started as a way to share my travel […]

Holding My Own: Nature Photography Lessons from a Toddler

Stories, Thoughts, & Reflections

Happy Earth Day! It’s the 51st Anniversary of Earth Day. That number makes me realize that I’m one of the first generations to grow up celebrating Earth Day in school.  When you look at the Earthday.org website, there is so much content for you to explore. Conservation, Climate Literacy, Freshwater or Forest Ecosystems, Plastic Pollution, Biodiversity […]

Adopting a Conservation Mindset for Earth Day & Nature First Photography

Landscape Photography

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With photography, often you feel the pressure or expectation to label yourself. You need to stake a claim as a landscape, nature, adventure, travel, wildlife, or some other photographer. This has always troubled me.  When forced to box myself into a category, I still ramble on by saying I’m a nature, landscape, and travel photographer. […]

Bird Photography: Photos from the Throne

Stories, Thoughts, & Reflections

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