The Journal
Stories from the Field
Dispatches from the trail — landscapes, wildlife, alpacas, and the road in between.
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That First 1st Led To My 1st Cover! Thank You National Park Service!
My first cover came from my 1st first! Huh? So I wrote a bit about my image Pole Position taking 1st in this year’s challenge category in the National Park Service ‘Spirit…
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This Year We Did Thanksgiving A Different Way – The Sedona Way
Thanksgiving 2014. Elastic sweatpants. Turkey. Football. Right? Nope. Not this year. This year, we decided to do a thing. A different thing. After 3 plus decades of hosting and cooking…
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5 Gifts NOT To Get Photographers This Holiday Season
It’s just one of those things. One of those crazy things. While every lens wipe and filter might look the same to the untrained eye, photographers obsess over every detail…
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Forget Black Friday & Cyber Monday – Shop Wasim Wednesday (And Thursday And Friday And…)
In case you’ve been (understandably) hiding under a rock the past 5 days, you’re already aware…it’s that time of year!! The holiday shopping madness has begun. We had Black Friday…
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6 Best Cameras For Budding Photographers
The holiday season is upon us, and chances are, somewhere in your family there’s a budding photographer. You’ve been watching as they hone their eye through an iPad lens or…
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Thank You.
So on this fine Thanksgiving Day 2014, I wanted to take this opportunity to express my extreme gratitude to all and everyone that has been a part of my life…
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Ten Fail Proof Gifts For Photographers In Your Circles
Whether we’re ready to admit it or not, the holidays are upon us. I tried as long as I could to ignore the names of the months passing by on…
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My Second Research Term For The Arcanum: Chromatic Aberration. Why? It’s Annoying…
So if you read my post My First Research Term For The Arcanum: Silence. Why? It’s Complicated…, you’d know what this is all about. As Robin Griggs Wood’s apprentice in Trey…
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My First 1st – ‘Pole Position’ Takes Top Spot In National Park Service Photo Contest!
So this is a quick one, but wanted to post an update to the National Park Service’s annual “Spirit Of The Mountains” photo contest I threw a couple entries into last month.…
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My First Research Term For The Arcanum: Silence. Why? It’s Complicated…
Part of the deal as an apprentice in The Arcanum is each week we are presented with a weekly challenge by our master, and with each weekly challenge, in addition to finding…
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My Experience In Trey Ratcliff’s The Arcanum – Level 3: Wasim The Inspired!
So this is where it all got real. The experiences, the Networks, The Challenges. It’s all part of the process here in The Arcanum, but all of it, at first, seems…
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5 Black & White Photography Tips I Learned While Taking The Black & White Photography Challenge
So I was recently challenged by a fellow Samsung Imagelogger, the talented portrait photographer Jess Anderson, to take the Black & White Photography Challenge. Basically, I had to post 5 black and…