One of my favorite times to be in the woods is after a storm. The dampness and the fog create a surreal atmosphere that surrounds you in a way that is both familiar and peaceful, yet somehow unsettling.

"Blue Monday" was made at the inlet in Point Pleasant, New Jersey during the early morning, just before sunrise. A storm had rolled in and was beginning to strengthen.

Back in the day before Instagram, most photography was shared through forums and photoblog websites. Photographers would upload their images to sites like Flickr and then share those photos, using the links generated by Flickr, to post everywhere else. It was a pretty good system and kept everything in one place. The links would then bring people back to that photographer's Flickr account which would act as their online portfolio.

I apologize, that was a click bait title and a very dirty trick. Especially because the two can't really be compared any more than you can compare a pickup truck and a passenger sedan. You are in the market for either one or the other. One will work for your situation and the other will not, at least in most cases.

One of the benefits of having soccer practice next to a Gothic Cathedral is that it gives you something to shoot while you wait for practice to finish. I spent a few minutes the other night taking advantage of the earlier sunset and grabbing some blue hour / night shots around Bryn Athen Cathedral.

Spent a week in North Wildwood New Jersey at the end of August. This was the first time I left the big expensive full frame Canon and "L" lenses at home and instead only brought the Lumix GX9. Granted, it is newer and therefore more fun to play with, but it really has impressed me. So much so, that I'm starting to take a more serious look at Micro Four Thirds in general.

A walk in Chicago, in June, with the Panasonic GX9 and Lumix 12-35 / F2.8. 

Back in May I went hiking at Pine Creek Gorge, otherwise known as "The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania". It's located in Tioga State Forest in North-Central Pennsylvania and spans 3 counties starting near Wellsboro, PA. The town is very quaint and is very much like other small towns in the center of the state. It's about 3 hours from where I grew up, but I had never heard of it until a few years ago. 

Went fishing at Core Creek Park a few weeks ago and brought along the Tamron SP 35mm F/1.8 Di VC USD. Since I mostly shoot Canon these days, I never really had the desire to pick up a Tamron. I ended up with it on a whim a while back when I was looking to get a used Canon 35mm F2.0. The shop didn't have any (even new ones) on hand, but had this used at a decent price, so I took a chance. 

Over the years, I've belonged to many different websites related to photography. Most of the websites were portfolio based sites designed to showcase your work.

I don't normally shoot weddings, but good friends of mine asked if I would shoot theirs. I decided it would be my wedding present to them. What I didn't expect was how much fun it was. Not that I'm going into the wedding photography business anytime soon, but I definitely would consider shooting another one. If the right person asked and if the venue was half as nice theirs, I would do it again.

The project shown here was an in house project for our new showroom in our west coast office.

As I’ve also mentioned in other posts, it is not often I get to see the final results in a project as I am usually involved early on in the process. When an opportunity comes up it’s good to see how close I was able to get it.

I’ve been reading quite a few articles about this theory lately. It’s been around for a while, but I think with the advancement of computer graphics, it’s starting to make its it way into the mainstream news cycles. The average person these days can experience Virtual Reality through VR headsets like Oculus Rift and even using their cell phone.

I spent most of this past week working on editing some photos. One of the groups of photos I edited was from Bowman’s Hill Tower in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

The Cuttalossa Farm is located in Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Sometimes you just have to take a day off from work and go for a drive down a winding dirt road.

The other morning while running errands, I drove by the Churchville Nature Center and decided to stop for a few minutes to check out the garden area. I always end up here in the colder months and the garden area is pretty bare as a result. I had only planned

Recently wrapped up the renderings for our new 2016 catalog. The images were created in 3ds Max and rendered in V-Ray. Post production compositing and editing were done Photoshop and After Effects. The catalog is almost entirely digital. Every scene, feature, and detail is 3d modeled and rendered. Existing products from other manufactures, such as the pendants and sconces in the cover shot, were also re-created digitally in order to achieve a consistent visual flow.

I was asked to render a couple concepts for billboards that would appear to blend in with their surroundings as opposed to just being placed on site. The following images were created to show what landscaping the existing site would do to create this effect.

No Matter where you are in Bucks County, you're only a few minutes from a great outdoor space. I had planned to get up and shoot the sunrise, but the weather didn't cooperate. Completely white sky, no clouds, no sun,  just a lot of wind. So, I went back to bed. An hour later the weather had changed (slightly) and though I had missed sunrise, I still wanted to get out and shoot.

Architectural visualization and Architectural photography are very similar. Creating an interior rendering is basically shooting an architectural photograph of an interior.

I used to mountain bike to the dam at Indian Run as a kid. The distance between the trail entrance near the road and the dam itself is much longer than I remember. Being on foot didn't help either. I never made it all the way to the dam that day, but did manage to take a few shots on the walk.