These are my stories. Some may be new, some may be old, but I hope you will find them all interesting.
I often see questions on one of the Casita groups asking how people over six feet tall will fit in a Casita. I had the same question before buying and was lucky enough to have someone show me their trailer before I got mine. Not everyone is that lucky, so …
My printer is now offering photo puzzles! I resisted putting my photos on products for a long time, but this new development got me to rethink that idea. Here are just some of the products that are being offered: Jigsaw Puzzles These would make a great gift for your friends, …
What’s the worst motel you’ve ever stayed in? Was it bad? Was it really bad? Do you think it reached the level of “The World’s Worst Motel”? I’ve stayed in some pretty cheap and funky places in my travels, but two establishments stood out from all the others – and …
(With guest contributor, KJ Swan of InsanityWithStyle.com.) National Parks are the greatest destinations in the United States of America. From the 8.3 million acre Wrangell-St. Elias in Alaska to the tiny 91 acre Gateway Arch in Missouri, National Parks preserve and protect over 130,000 square miles of American soil. There …
Thanks to Abbie Shores’ tutorial on customizing the Fine Art America widget (she is the Community and Technical Support Manager at Fine Art America/Pixels.com), I was able to write this JavaScript code to control the Fine Art America widget and embed the store into my website. This is all pretty …
In September, I scanned a lot of my old negatives and slides and found a whole lot of train pictures that I shot in the 1990’s. It was a time when I spent a lot of days watching and photographing trains at the San Luis Obispo railroad station, and going …
September’s slide and negative scanning kept me going into early October with still more old train pictures. These old Southern Pacific photos turned out to be a real hit with the railfans on Instagram. If I would have had more forethought I would have taken even more photos of the …
I finally have some “new” photos! Ok, the first set aren’t new, they’re more old negatives and slides that I scanned over a 12-day vacation in September. Instead of boarding a plane in Alberta to come home after enjoying a visit to Banff National Park in Canada, I found myself …
This is going to be an odd post for a photographer’s blog, but here goes… Once long ago, in the days when thin plastic strips coated with photosensitive chemicals were loaded into manual focus cameras, when you had to take 36 pictures before you could go to the lab with …
As you may know if you’ve been following my photography, I vary quite a bit in my subject matter. I’ve done lots of landscape, architecture, ruins, and for the past few years a lot of wildlife photography. But I think my favorite (and most under-represented) has always been sports. Whether …
California Zephyr: Denver to Sacramento | Capitol Corridor: Sacramento to Emmeryville | Thruway Bus: Emmeryville to Santa Clara This is the last part of my 6-part series covering an 11-day Amtrak trip around the western United States in May of 2006. Be sure to read about the planning and start …
California Zephyr: Sacramento to Denver This is Part 5 of my 6-part series covering an 11-day Amtrak trip around the western United States in May of 2006. Be sure to read about the planning and start of my journey from San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles in Part 1 the …
