Arctic Documentary Project – Svalbard, Norway Final Post #5
August 10, Danskøya Island 37F Click on this link to see photos of our favorite images from the Svalbard shoot for the Arctic Documentary Project This morning is cold. Most definitely the coolest we’ve experienced. Danskøya Island is on the northwest part of the archipelago and is on the edge… Read More »
Arctic Documentary Project – Svalbard, Norway Post #4: Second Trip
August 8, 2011, Cloudy and 43F Tanya and I spent the past three days in Lonyearbyen in a small, very European, apartment, catching up on business matters, writing and a little rest before our next group of guests arrived. The first trip went really well, but every adventure to… Read More »
Aperture Applet-GPS Info in Aperture for the ADP
Just going through some of my images and wanted to share a very interesting and worthwhile feature I’m exploring within Aperture. Before I left I purchased the Nikon GPS unit GP-1 for the D7000. I’m not a big fan of labeling the exact location of every photo but for the… Read More »
Arctic Documentary Project – Svalbard, Norway Post #3: Whales, Walrus, Bears and Seals
July 27 – Clear skies, Temp Around 45F The weather continues bright and sunny. For two days now we’ve had skies with virtually no clouds. Some wind yesterday afternoon but amazingly if it weren’t for the desolate landscape, void of vegetation, and cool temps, I would swear we were cruising… Read More »
Arctic Documentary Project – Svalbard, Norway Post #2: Polar Bear Sighting
July 23, 2012 Two years ago on my first trip to Svalbard we found a dead whale, floating in the waters of Holmiabukta. It was partially beached, the underside of its large, bloated carcass coming aground on the bottom of the fjord, 50 feet or more from the gray,… Read More »
Svalbard Photo Equipment List
July 18, 2011 Yesterday I received a note on Facebook from a friend of mine in South Africa. He saw the picture I posted of Tanya with all our bags and asked if there was any camera gear inside. We’ve traveled together so his comment was just a friendly poke.… Read More »
The Changing World of Digital Photography- Update
Many of you may recall a post on the Corkboard I wrote a couple of years ago titled The Changing World of Digital Photography discussing my introduction to the realm of Micro 4/3s digital cameras. It all revolved around a new camera called the Panasonic GF1. I was in Yellowstone… Read More »
Countdown for Svalbard Norway-Invitational Photo Tours, ADP and Polar Bears International
June 10, 2011 My last trip to Svalbard was almost two years ago. Soon I will be there again and this blog post is the beginning of my report from what is an incredible land of ice, water, wildlife and sky. If you’re interested you can read about my last… Read More »
Major Hard Drive Meltdown-Lessons Learned
I thought I would share with you some lessons I learned recently with regards to protecting your pictures. About three weeks ago I had a major Drobo hard drive failure where I had nearly 3 Terabytes of images go up in smoke. Thank goodness I had them all backed up… Read More »
Always Looking for New Ideas & Chase Jarvis is Incredibly Inspiring
I’ve know about Chase Jarvis for about six months now. I can’t recall how he came to my attention but with 45,000 friends on Facebook he’s obviously very popular and you can find him nearly everywhere, doing nearly anything and everything in the world of creative visuals.. The guy really… Read More »