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This may not be very “photography related” news for my blog.  However, I do find it pretty sad news being that I have personally shot photos of him recently and have been watching his freestyle motocross career take off for quite some time.

This news clip borrowed from the Associated Press:

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Jeremy Lusk, an American freestyle motocross rider, died of head injuries Tuesday after crashing while trying to land a backflip in competition. He was 24.

Jorge Ramirez, chief of the intensive care unit at Calderon Hospital, said Lusk suffered severe brain damage and a possible spinal cord injury.

Lusk won a gold medal at the 2008 X Games. He was injured Saturday night when he failed to complete a full rotation while attempting a Hart Attack backflip and slammed headfirst into the dirt. Lusk crashed in almost identical fashion in the freestyle semifinals at the 2007 X Games but was not hurt. Read more »

When taking photos, there are certain rules that you can follow in order to make them more pleasing to the human eye. However, these rules should not be something that you set in stone and always follow! Rules are in some cases, meant to be broken after all. Ansel Adams can in fact be quoted as saying “The so-called rules of photographic composition are, in my opinion, invalid, irrelevant and immaterial” .  I whole-heartedly agree with him about it also. After all, the photos you take should not only be a record of an object or event frozen in time, but they should also be a tool of self expression. You certainly can not express yourself if you’re following rules made by others all of the time.

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Picking your photography equipment can be just as important as the photos you take. If you pick equipment that is too basic, you will be limited in how creative you can be with your photos. However, if you pick equipment that is too sophisticated for you, you may very well be deterred by the thought of trying to figure out how to use it. Hopefully this will point you in the right direction! Read more »

This and the following few blog posts are intended for those of you who have little to no experience with photography. However, those of you who do have some, or even a lot of experience may learn a something also!  Read more »

After going over the topic of converting color images to black and white for the past couple of days with a local photography group, I’ve come to the conclusion that some things are just thought about way too much when it comes to black and white conversion!

We started out with a basic assignment: take some photos of a local historic area, convert your favorites to black and white, and return later to present them to the group with a description of what you had done to achieve your conversion. Some of the people that presented images spent literally hours on one photo. To me, thats way too much time to be spending on a single photo unless your intent is to sell that photo for millions (which likely isn’t going to happen). Read more »

I think that every blogger should have a first post explaining what the goal of their blog is.

This is mine…

My goal with this blog is to publish for the world, any photography tips, samples, news, ideas, etc, that I find interesting or that have helped me out on my journey as a photographer. My goal for these posts are to give you, the readers, something that may help you out in some way or give you some insight to something else that you may want to expand upon.

Some of you may turn up your nose at my posts, yet some of you may genuinely appreciate them. Either way, no offense will be taken on my part. I feel that photography is a definite artform. True artforms can sometimes only be seen by the artists themselves. Therefore, everyone is entitled to their opinion here, and I welcome any comments or suggestions that you may have.

This site, though geared for my fellow photographers, is also intended to be a place where people looking for a photographer can learn more about me, see the kind of photography that I do, and of course hire me to do a shoot for them.

At some point I also plan on posting desktop wallpapers of some of my photos. These wallpapers will mainly be for those people who are like myself and use multiple monitors on their computers. Generally wallpapers that are meant for these large desktop resolutions that span across multiple monitors are quite hard to find; hopefully I will be able to provide content which everyone can appreciate. However, I do also plan on providing some of these wallpapers for the majority of the world that only use a single monitor on their computer.