by Matt | Jan 3, 2022 | Birds
At the end of every year, I always enjoy going through my photos and picking some of my favorites. It’s a fun exercise. And I inevitably end up finding some photos that I may not have thought much of at the time, but I really like now. Or sometimes, photos that I...
by Matt | Dec 8, 2021 | Birds
Hi all. Merry Christmas and happy holidays. I’ve seen enough gift guides out there with gear and software and tech and all that stuff. So I thought I’d create one that would get people out shooting. In this short 7 minute video, you’ll hear about 3...
by Matt | Nov 15, 2021 | Birds
There are a few hawks that frequent my backyard and I hear them just about every day. The problem is that if (and when) they do ever fly in and land, they either land on a fence or up high in the trees with a thousand branches around and behind them. There is no...
by Matt | Oct 15, 2021 | Birds
I had a really nice morning earlier this week out at Fort Desoto park in St. Petersburg FL. Dick and Vicki from DVWildlife.com (they run the Eagle photography tours in North Florida) came down the day before and we met up for a morning shoot. I really like this time...
by Matt | Oct 14, 2021 | Birds, Photography
Over the last three weeks I was fortunate enough to get to try out a pre-release copy of the new Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 GM II lens. Sony gave the lens to a few different photographers with various genres and they asked me to photograph some wildlife with it to I could...
by Matt | Oct 7, 2021 | Birds, Photography
Let me start this out by saying I don’t want this to simply be another “gear doesn’t matter… just practice” post. I want to, more specifically, answer a question about why the pros always say “Gear doesn’t matter”, yet...
I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.