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.

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

Soon, we're hopping off the boat and wading through the warm ocean waters up to the shore of the Corcovado National Park in one of the many

After being here two weeks prior, you'd think there wouldn't be anything new to see.

Caddo Lake doesn't look all that big from the banks since there is not a huge body of water before you.

"It's not supposed to be this hot in mid-October," I tell myself while standing next to the blind window, waiting for the slightest breeze.

From the bottom of the hill, you might mistake the animals for a scattering of rocks strewn about the fall-cured grasses. 

August 24 was the last day of the spring 2024 Hackberry Farm Day Camp Photography Workshops. We ended the season with a great group of folks

Rain's typically scant Rain's typically scant here, but a few hours before we arrived, nearly four inches of precipitation fell in a deluge

In this webinar, we'll discuss some of the considerations that go into just about every good nature photograph.

After a few months’ hiatus, the spring 2024 Day Camp Schedule resumed at Hackberry Farm. While the topics vary, this past weekend's camp co

In the distance, a thunderstorm creeps across the hardscrabble of the northern Texas Hill Country.  With each flash of lightning, the storm’

I hear the tell-tale song come from the grass: bob-WHITE! There's a pause, and then he sings again.

For most of the week, we've been immersed in Appalachian culture.  

A couple of years ago, I discovered that Hackberry Farm would be in the path of totality. About ten months before the eclipse, I announced t

It’s mesmerizing to watch the waterfall across the rocks. The falling water is magic when translated onto a digital medium through a camera.

During the day, the landscapes are austere. Here lie vast expanses of red dirt rolling plains.

The first Night Skies of the Texas Outback workshop sold out, so we opened up dates for a new one!

A big rainstorm that moved across North Texas on Friday, December 15, made the prospects of the wildlife photography day camp a little...