Last month, I had the great experience of traveling on a bulk freighter from Chicago to Quebec City.  We sailed through four of the five great lakes and went through about 20 locks.  The ship is 730 feet long and just fits into the 740 foot locks. As you can imagine, it gave me many …

Recently, I traveled on a bulk freighter on the Great Lakes (images and story for a future blog) and flew to Chicago and stayed at an airport hotel the night before I boarded the ship.  I always look out the window and usually take a snapshot of the view whenever I stay at a hotel.  …

Last week Andy Frazer and I lead an Urban Night Photography workshop here in the Los Angeles area over three nights.  It was a small, intimate group with varied levels of photographic skills, which worked out great. Most of us live in urban locations, yet many people feel they have to go to a “scenic” …

Recently, I juried a show of night photography for the Vermont Photo Space Gallery, in Essex Junction, VT.  There were some 440 entries, many quite strong. I have juried shows before, but not with this many images, and I was the only juror this time.  I was asked by several people what my criteria was …

This week, we are in the middle of our Urban Night Photography workshop here in Los Angeles and I wanted to mention three relatively new books (in no particular order) on night photography that are definitely worth adding to your photographic library. First is Lance Keimig’s book, “Night Photography–Finding Your Way in the Dark”, published …