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Going to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg in October, looking for ideas and suggestions of things to do and places to photograph We have been up there many times but are looking for things we might have missed. Anyone ever take any of the tours of the area and are they worth taking? All ideas and...

I just thought that I would report that around thirty something people attended my class last night. All brought real cameras, not cell phones, and before the class ended I made sure everyone could change these settings and change shooting modes and understood how each worked. This is a handout...

Giving a class on "Understanding F-Stop, Shutter Speed & ISO & how they work together This will be the sixth class I have given and they seem to grow each time I give one. It will be from 6:30 until 9:00 this coming Tuesday in Biloxi, Ms. so far I have 80 people interested in coming but as...

I called Sony and told them that my XQD card started giving me this message in my card reader and in my camera. He said the bad news is it can't be fixed but the good news is it has a five year warranty so he gave me a case number and told me to send it in for a replacement. A special thank you...

This is a good example of why I use single point focus. This bird is among a lot marsh grass and using single point focus allows me to lock on to the birds eye and not the blades of grass in front of my subject, preventing my subject from being out of focus. Single point focus lets me pinpoint...

Be sure and change ALL of your cameras. I also changed the DSC in front of my file number to represent the camera the photo was shot with. Instead of DSC_1456 it now reads 500_1456. I changed each camera so now I can easily tell which camera the photo was taken with. Look under photo shooting...

I dropped one of my XQD cards on the floor under my desk so I reached in to get it and slide it on the floor up to the rug my chair sits on and when it made contact with the rug it broke the corner of the card that has the connections on. It wasn't broke it was just separated so I thought I...

Photoshop cc not working after update! I tried several things and what I ended up doing that worked was to remove the PS icon on my dock "iMac" and open it in application and it worked, so I removed the old icon and replaced it with a new one drug down from my applications and everything works...

For the last two years I have photographed this event. It has a 5k run and is toped off with a climb up 22 flights of stairs 5 times to replicate the 110 floors of the twin towers in New York. This young man last year and this year, borrowed his fathers Fire Coat and helmet and proceeded to do...

Green Heron from this morning's photo outing. Nikon D600 with Tamron 150-600 G1 lens, shot hand held .

This guy heard I took animal portraits and came by for a shoot! Needless to say I was shocked! I noticed I should have used a little fill flash to eliminate the shadow under his head. I will try and do better next time, this could cause me to lose clients! This is a Purussaurus for those that...

EASY WAY TO MAKE PANORAMIC PHOTOS. Ever thought you would like to shoot some panos but thought it would be too hard to get everything lined up and finished? Think again because it is actually very easy! I posted a pano picture that I made from my trip to several national parks last month a few...

I have the original Tamron 150-600 and was wondering if there is enough difference between it and the Nikon 200-500mm to sell mine and get the Nikon. Opinions wanted both pro and con.

I just started a few weeks ago trying to figure out how to make panos. This is a fifteen image pano of Horse Shoe Bend in Dead Horse State Park in Utah.

I will be leaving on Tuesday May the 8th to fly to Utah to visit Yellowstone and the big five National parks in Southern Utah along with the Utah State park for 18 days. I have narrowed down my equipment to my D500 with my Tamron 150-600mm, Nikon 70-200mm with 2x teleconverter for longer...

I witnessed a good life lesson this morning. This blue heron had speared this fish with it's bill and it appeared that it was the end of the line for the fish but I witnessed a never give up attitude with the fish and it fought hard to live and was rewarded by getting away to live another day...

What is the crooked arrow on the top of the playback LCD screen for? I figured it out once but don't remember. Thanks, Jeff

Do you recommend cleaning your own camera sensors and if you do what do you recommend using?

I am headed out shortly to Utah to see Yellowstone, Deadhorse State park and the big five national parks before too long and I am looking for any tips you may have to offer. I plan on taking my D500, Sigma 10-20mm, Sigma 17-50mm, Nikon 70-200mm with a 2x extender and finally my Tamron 150-600mm...

National Aviation Museum in Pensacola Florida. They have no restrictions at all on photography for the Blue Angels or the museum. I was shooting with my D500 and 150-600mm Tamron lens. You can find out all about it at this link. http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/attractions/blue-angels/ I...