There is still space in the Fall Tours. Sign up here if you want to attend. The fall tours are always great, with unique opportunities to photograph ancient cypress trees at their fall best. The Spring tours are also listed. You can get details and sign up here.

The Fall tours are far West of Hurricane Ida's path and unaffected by the storm, so the photo tours are going forward as planned. I checked on room availability, and there are rooms available for both photo tours.

I serious hurricane struct Houma, Louisiana where I live, and we have evacuated out of state. Fortunately, the house appears undamaged. The locations where we will be photographing were east of the storm's path and should be unaffected, and I will be conducting the tours as planned.

I intended to post a longer newsletter, but not having access to my desktop machine is limiting what I post.

Part III of a series on making and processing a black and white image.

Part II of a series on making and processing a black and white image.

First in a series covering the making and processing of a black and white image.

I recently switched from my 2015 iMac to a new MacBook Air with the M1 Chip. This article describes the reasoning and the process involved.

I've been photographing the swamps here in Louisiana since I moved back in December 2001. I've focused on photographing birds and cypress scenes in color. For several years I've been drawn to rendering swamp scenes in black and white rather than in color.

Since the May 9th photo tour is full and two people requested a May tour, I've added another tour directly preceding the May 9th tour, starting on May 5th and ending at noon on the 8th.

Photo Activities

Winter here slows my photoactivity. I spend time working with my equipment, editing images created during the year, and photographing at home.

My March 2020 Newsletter with tour information, an update on Lake Martin, and New Orleans Photography classes.

Looking back over 2019, I feel I've had an outstanding year making many excellent images. I also feel fortunate to have worked with many of you on my photo tours. I've compiled a gallery of what I feel are my best images of 2019, most of which were photographed de on one of the photo tours. Click to read more and access the gallery.