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 [...]

 June, 2009 Adobe Lightroom Tip: Expanding and Collapsing all Subitems

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.

 June, 2009 Peep, Peep, Peep Goes the Mockingbird

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 [...]

 June, 2009 Lenses, Lens Hoods and Crop Bodies

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 [...]

 June, 2009 The National Geographic Complete Birds of North America Reviewed

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 [...]

 June, 2009 Olympus E-P1: Evolution, Revolution or Just Another Camera

Some tips on finding and photographing the Least Term (Sterna antillarum) the samllest of the Term species found in North America.

 June, 2009 Profile of the Least Tern