Fix for Stuck Shutter

As lovely as this photo is, it’s just not very good. The symmetry of the image and its reflection on the water are nice, but the composition just isn’t great. I think it would have been much better if I had shot it in landscape and moved the treeline either up halfway between where it…

I was so excited to take my camera to our Youth Conference, which took place last weekend on the beautiful campus of Troy University in Troy, Alabama. And while it is a lovely campus, I didn’t find a lot of compelling shots. I did see things I wanted to photograph so I could remember them,…

These shots were also from our Houston trip back in February, but it’s taken till now to get my site working well. The amusement park on the boardwalk on Galveston Island lends itself to shutterbugging anyway, but we pretty much had the place to ourselves because — well, February. The idea behind this technical exercise…

I had taken some fair shots before, but when I saw this one right after I took it, I was hooked, and I knew I wanted to learn real photography. I’ve tried many times since then to capture a single drop of water on a leaf or a branch, and I’ve never made it happen….