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- 2010 Botswana Blog
- Day 1: Meet and Greet
- Day 2: Around Tree Lodge
- Day 3: Wild!
- Day 4: First Full Safari Day
- Day 5: Mufasa
- Day 6: At the Speed of Africa
- Day 7: Ele in the Channel
- Day 8: All Quiet on All Fronts
- Day 9: Big Cats
- Day 10: Kill, kill, kill
- Day 11: The Ele That Walked to the Leopard
- Day 12: Cats All Day
- Day 13: The Long Haul
- Day 14: Herd Behavior
- Day 15: Human Herd Behavior
- Some of the Rest
- 2010 South Africa Blog
- Day 0: Lecture and Shoot
- Day 1: Wet and Dry
- Day 2: South Africa History Day
- Day 3: Out of the Cape
- Day 4: The Long Drive
- Day 5: The Tsitsikamma
- Day 6: The Tsitsikamma
- Day 7: Goodbye Landscapes, Hello Animals
- Day 8: To the Preserves
- Timeout: Some Useful Information
- Day 9: Rhinos? What Rhinos?
- Day 10: The Kill
- Bonus Day: All Safari, All the Time
- Final Full Day: Cubs
- Wrap-up 1: The Soap Opera Continues
- Wrap-up 2: Equipment
- 2013 Botswana Blog
- Workshop Prep Time
- Pre Workshop Scout
- Royal Tree Lodge
- Into Moremi: Lost Elephant
- First Lion
- Baby Ele, 2-min Leopard
- Ten Spots in a Tree; Boats
- Warthogs and Rest
- Antelope & Birds on Sticks
- To Savute
- Wild Dogs at Sundown
- Lion Buffalo Standoff
- The Night
- Savute to Chobe
- Day 13 Livingston Falls
- Bonus Photos
- Some Tony Shots
- Safari Wrapup
- 2016 Botswana Blog
- 1. We Start Again
- 2. In Transit
- 3. Still in Transit
- 4. First Day, First Night
- 5. First Full Drive
- 6. Happy Hippos
- 7. More Travel, Plus Meet and Greet
- 8. First Impressions of Moremi
- 9. Just Another Day in Moremi
- 10. Moremi Too
- 11. Boat to Camp O
- 12. Walking in the Delta
- 13. Goodbye Camp O, Hello Savute
- 14. Waiting for the Leopard
- 15. Hyena Only
- 16. Moving to Khwai
- 17. Khwai Provides
- 18. Khwai Goodbye
- 19. Back to Maun
- 20. Meno a Kwena
- 21. Bushmen
- 2016 Botswana Wrap
- And a Short Followup on Lists
- 2023 Botswana Blog
- 2010 Botswana Blog
- South America
- United States
- Weighty Advice
- The One-Bag Photographic World Traveler
- Africa
- Learn
- Teaching Points
- 1— Composing Reflections
- 2— Sunrise/Set Exposure
- 3— Moving Focus Points
- 4— Learn from Failure
- 5— Impact versus Technique
- 6— What are you Saying?
- 7— Take the Shot
- 8— Plan your Shooting
- 9— Immediacy
- 10— Exaggerate Human Form
- 11— Birds in Flight
- 12— Look the Other Way
- 13— Stitching Tip
- 14— Go Back and Repeat
- 15— Landscape Two-fer
- 16— What Photogs Do
- 17— Moments
- 18— Dumb Luck
- 19— Seeing O'Hare Again
- 20— Fireworks
- 21— Selecting Sky
- 22 — Momentary Rays
- 23— Improving Wildlife Photos
- 24— Dealing w/ Color Temp
- 25—How Cold Can You Go?
- 26 — More on Cropping
- 27 — Find the Rest of the Story
- 28 — Things You "Can't" Photograph From Behind
- 29 — Photograph Out of Season
- 30 — Being Ready to Be Ready
- 31 — Creating Dimensionality in Your Image
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- Quick and Dirty
- Essays
- Establish Your Standards
- Photography: Craft or Art?
- Settings Versus Seeing
- Optimal Data — Entropy
- Optimal Data —Crud
- Optimal Data — Exposure
- Optimal Data — Summary
- Tip of the Iceberg
- The Pain of Photography
- The Top Photography Myths
- Good Design, Good Images
- I'm Constantly Being Chased
- How Many Photos Did it Take?
- Is Landscape Photography Done?
- Chasing Galen
- Hope Versus Fear
- What is Dynamic Range?
- Taking Photos Techniques
- Two Photo Approaches
- Stop Fearing Noise
- Highest ISO to Set?
- What Causes "Soft"?
- That Was Bad Advice...
- Color Me Confused
- Pano-stiching a PC-E
- JPEG or Raw?
- What's So Important About JPEGs?
- Raw or JPEG Redux
- Making Great JPEGs
- The Raw File Problem
- The Raw Fallacy
- Setting Correct Exposure
- What is ETTR?
- ND Filters for Water
- Framing Selfies
- A Snappier Bridge
- Improve the Photographer
- What's Your Goal?
- Correctly Placing Blame
- Your Turn to Get Better
- The Random Game
- What Level Are You?
- Who is Your Curator
- Are You Neglecting Your GDP?
- The Push/Pull of “Style"
- What’s Your Biggest Problem?
- Outrunning Those Behind
- Collector or Photographer?
- Things You Should Do But Don't
- Getting Better at Photography
- How Do You Keep Up?
- When Will You be a Pro?
- Where’s the Story?
- Magic Moment
- Dealing with Cataracts
- Learning from Others
- Gear Questions
- Post Processing
- Teaching Points
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