Within minutes of pushing off from the dock in Petersburg, Alaska, it felt like we were already in the wilderness.  On a well-appointed luxury yacht (The Northern Song), six guests, a crew of three, and I launch into the beautiful waters of Southeast Alaska.  Along the way out to Frederick Sound, a group of sea lions lay on top of a channel marking bouy as if to wish us safe passage as we pass.

Panoramas are a fun and thoughtful way of shooting landscape images.

In this webinar, we'll do a show and tell of sorts. We'll look at some images and break down the compositional elements of the...

In this webinar, I’ll show you how to take pictures taken in sub-par conditions and turn them into images you can be proud of. Follow...

When shooting pictures of wildlife, one important consideration is how the background looks. To get creamy and beautiful backgrounds only requires a couple of considerations. In this Hackberry Farm Nature Photography workshop video, I discuss some practical things to think about when you are shooting images and trying to improve your backgrounds.

If you have hummingbirds, you know exactly how cool they are. While I am a latecomer to the game, I absolutely love my hummingbirds and...

If you've ever wanted to attend one of our highly regarded Nature Photography Day Camps  here at Hackberry Farm , now is your chance....

This month’s video nature photography workshop/webinar is called The Little Things. Everyone knows that exposure and composition are key to good photography, but there are other things (which I call The Little Things) that help fill in the gaps for good photographs. Want to know what those things are?

While spring is usually the wettest season at Redlands Ranch, the rain usually comes from itinerant thunderstorms that appear in the afternoon and are gone in the evening.  Once they are past, the ground dries until the next round of rain falls.  This rain is unusually persistent.  For the past two or three weeks, it’s been a slow and persistent rain.  One that makes everything green and makes everything soggy.

It’s misty outside, but here we are in a place I’d never imagined I’d be: a Dutch brown bar in Delft’s city center.  Inside here, our guests laugh with one another while we sip cappuccino and tell stories.  We’ve been on the move all week during our nature photography workshop, so this pause is a welcome respite.

I'm a fan of trees.  I've written before that they are the only organisms firmly rooted in the soil and grow into the heavens, yet they occupy the same space as we do.  When you take the time to study trees, you'll notice that each individual is much different than even trees of the same species, and the variety of trees that exist on our planet is even more diverse and, frankly, mind-boggling.  From the time a seed spouts, each drop of rain and each puff of wind influences h

It's quiet here in this mountain valley.  Elk are strewn along a wooded creek at the foot of the valley.  They are content, the people in this workshop are content, and all seems right.  

Putting yourself in the right place at the right time is one of the crucial pieces of the wildlife photography puzzle. In this Hackberry Farm Nature Photography webinar, we'll discuss how understanding some basic biological facts about mammals can help you become a better photographer.

Panoramas are a fun and thoughtful way of shooting landscape images. In this Hackberry Farm Nature Photography Workshop video I'll show you an easy method for capturing landscapes that may not fit the classical model.

This is the second time I've come out to Northwest Texas for the Night Skies of the Texas Outback nature photography workshop, and it's for

When I walk into the lobby, I'm a bit surprised that I'm not the first one here.  In fact, except for one person, I am the next to the last

In our new publication, you see a celebration of all we did in 2024 in our Hackberry Farm Nature Photography Workshops.

Good bird photography is deliberate. With a few simple techniques, you can put yourself in a position to take more dynamic bird photographs

From the floor of Badwater Basin, I look to the east and see the colors over the mountains changing from a grey-blue to a familiar orange.

There are all kinds of photographic techniques you can use while you are in the field photographing wildlife.