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photographing snow and ice
Tips for Photographing Snow and Ice

There are many minor details to photographing snow and ice that make the experience much more enjoyable if you are prepared, not just knowing how to expose you scene.

Take a Valentine’s Day Vacation at Your Desk
Take a Valentine’s Day Vacation at Your Desk

Let’s be honest, in a cynical way, contemporary Valentine’s Day is a creation of the card, flower, candy and gift industries to get you to buy their products in order to express love and support for others.

The Winter Solstice
The Winter Solstice

The shortest day of the year and the longest night of the year in our northern hemisphere occurs in late Dece

Why Nature Makes Me Grateful
Why Nature Makes Me Grateful

"And we who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos we've begun, at last, to wonder about our origins. Star stuff, contemplating the stars organized collections of 10 billion-billion-billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter...

fear
Overcoming Fear

We all fear things. In some cases, our fears in rare life threatening situations is a fight or flight trigger of our ancestral human survival instincts.