Amid cobblestone streets and old European buildings that let you know you’re not in the New World, Toto, stands a church that Ripley’s Believe It or Not would’ve loved to have found. The Bone Chapel ( Capela dos Ossos ) in the Royal Church of St. Francis in Evora, Portugal is unlike any chapel I’ve ever seen. Here...
How do you shoot a subject that’s been done a million times? Here are two approaches at shooting horses on a Portugese Horse Farm.
Finding great shots of the wild horses of Namibia, Africa can be difficult. But when the stars line up right, the payoff is worth the effort.
Stepping inside a private monastery in Bhutan last November, we happened upon this scene—a group of young monks bent over the floor creating an intricate mandala. First thought, wow, how cool to finally see this…then, do you suppose we can photograph it? Great, now how? The challenge was the lack of natural light. At 5pm,...
We often hear the anagram HDR, and think High Dynamic Range. Some people don’t care much for the image that pops into their head, assuming it’s one of those over-the-top highly processed images that looks more illustrative than photographic. There is, however, a distinction between HDR and Tone Mapping. An image can be HDR and...
I love motion. In my studio, I have chosen to photograph people who move — but I tend to freeze their motion using strobes. On adventure photo tours, however, I like to experiment with shutter speed and camera movement. The downside is that you never know exactly what you’re going to get. Turns out, that’s also...
final image original scene This lady was churning yak butter in the kitchen of her nephew’s home, who happened to be the lama of Ura village in Bumthang, Bhtuan. The room was rather dim, lit by daylight coming from one window across the room. To photograph her where she was in the kitchen at 800...
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