I finally made it to Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, and… Sandhill Cranes! (and other birds)

You don’t get better by thinking about doing things, you get better by doing it.

I review a new book on Adobe Lightroom Classic

I spent some time out at Big Beef harbor photographing eagles

I finally go out and take some pictures. About time…

Pictures of a species that recently seems to have moved into the area.

my favorite photos of 2022. A good year, definitely a better year than 2021.

finishing out the backlog of images taken in 2022 and clearing the deck for 2023.

I take a few days off in Astoria, and play with my cameras

I make my first visit to a Wildlife Refuge since the move, and I experiment with the iPhone 14 pro — and like the results

First time taking photos with the new wide angle lenses worth showing.

I look at Topaz Labs new combined Photo AI plugin for sharpening, denoising and image expansion

Latest update of what I’m seeing here on the homestead

in which I talk about something that recently happened that most photographers would deny they ever did.

I tweak the site a bit to fix some long-standing annoyances that probably only I care about, but it makes me happy.