Just as soon as one Caddo Lake and East Texas Autumn nature photography workshop ends, the next one begins.  Mid-November is the ideal time to see fall colors at Caddo Lake. Upon the arrival of a new group, it’s not long before we are back at the lake, embracing an unusual autumn in an out-of-the-way place in East Texas.

As the water calms around us, the sky to the east starts to lighten.  First, pink tinges the wispy clouds floating through the eastern sky.  Soon, the sky gradiates from deep blue to orange.  On the Caddo Lake and East Texas Autumn nature photography workshop, scenes like this are common - and welcome.

In the distance, a cow lowing breaks the silence of the moment.  Soon, the clank of hoofs against wood slides into the ether as a horse repositions himself in the trailer.  The horse knows that his services are needed and is ready to go to work. In cowboy country, horses are unofficially graded on whether or not they have cow sense.  Cow sense is a characteristic that horses have. It portends how good they’ll work around cattle and how enthusiastic they are about their job. 

It's quiet here along the Middle Fork of the Little River.  The water babbles over the moss-covered rocks, creating a relaxing sound that reverberates a bit off the mountains.  No one speaks as each guest is into their own camera, trying to catch the fleeting beauty of Autumn in the Smokies.  

Pulling alongside the road in the dark, I can hear the waves crashing on the isolated cove below.  This is one of those moments where imagination comes full circle.  As a kid, I’d learned about Acadia National Park, and it’s a place that I’ve dreamt of visiting.  

It's been a while, but planning the Wild Horses of Sable Island nature photography workshop started on a famous ranch near Pawhuska, Oklahoma, in August of 2023.  On a road trip with my wife, we stopped in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, to eat breakfast at a restaurant owned by television personality Ree Drummond.  After breakfast, we head out to the vast Drummond Ranch, where her show The Pioneer Woman is filmed.  On our visit to the Drummond Ranch lodge, I was roaming through the kitc

Looking off the side of the road, sure enough, a mature black bear was picking its way through the scrub in search of food. We pull off the side of the road, roll down the window, and start taking pictures of him. 

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.

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.