Vacation and travel  Season is upon us!  As we travel and explore our world we are exposed to new and exciting things, things that inspire us to photograph.  Whether we are traveling just 50 miles away to stay at a Bed and Breakfast and explore a small town or traveling halfway across the world to spend a month trekking across southeast Asia, we want to capture the excitement and experience and share that with others.  In This article I will give you 5 quick tips to dramatically increase the quality of your photos to make them more interesting and the kind of pictures that will garner you tons...

Well, the holiday season is over and the photos are back from the lab.  As you look over your Holiday pictures you may start to wonder, "Why don't my pictures look like a shoot from W magazine?"  I'm here to tell you in order to get interesting pictures you must start do do something different.  I will describe in this article a few quick easy tips anyone can follow to make your holiday pics more interesting, more beautiful, and more fun to look at again and again.   A major reason so many holiday pictures look the same is because everybody is doing the same thing:  They are documenting...

The other weekend I went to a Traveling carnival in Austin Texas.  I am pretty sure this is the same carnival that has come through town a couple of times a year every year since 1979.  After all, one of the rides is still called Disco Fever.  That's a bit dated, don'tcha think?  This is not sponsored by the city, county or anybody.  They just set up in the same empty lot on the side of Ben White Blvd by IH 35 year after year.  Old School, classic. I love how innocent children are.  Their enjoyment is enthusiastic and total.  While I enjoyed the carnival for it's ironic value, for the memories...

Take Amazing Pictures With Any Camera Yes! Even your disposable point and shoot!  One of the fastest ways to improve all of your pictures right now is by understanding this amazingly simple compositional technique.  This "Rule" is one of the first things that photographers learn about in classes on photography.  It is the basis for well balanced and interesting shots.  To use this rule effectively you don't even have to know anything else about how photography or cameras work.  It's that easy! Composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a photograph. ...