In Adobe Photoshop Lightroom there are many places where you might want to expand or collapse multiple items all at once; the Folders list, Collections list, or keywords list for example. If you hold the alt key (option on mac) and click the triangle next to the entry to expand or collapse it, it will …
It’s that time of year again, the Northern Mockingbirds that nested a month or two ago are now in the “mommy feed me” stage. Unfortunately for me this one has been sitting outside of my window but not somewhere I could be photographed all day, peeping continuously.
Professionals and serious amateur photographers alike know that lens hoods are an important part of the lens. A properly designed lens hood shades the lens’s front element or protective filters, from stray non-image producing light. The stray light can bounce around inside the lens and reduce contrast as well as create flare (if sufficiently close …
While the Sibley Guide to Birds (reviewed here) may be the ultimate field guide, the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America is the desk reference to go with it. First, this is not a field guide by any stretch of the imagination. It’s larger and heavier than the Sibley’s guide as well as being …
It’s been the dream of serious digital photographers for a long time now, a small digital system with interchangeable lenses, near SLR image quality and a pocketable design. The first real attempt at a “pro P&S” could be the Sigma DP1. Its large SLR sized (1.7x crop) sensor produced amazing images behind the fixed 16.6mm …
There are few seabirds I like better than Terns. They have clean lines, are generally approachable if you do it right, and make for great sport photographing while in flight, especially the smaller ones. In Florida several species of Terns visit us seasonally. In the winter, many of Florida’s west coast beaches, especially the less …
