Category: Still Photography

Every year I look forward to May and early June. A time when the Colorado comes alive again…the brown of winter gives way to the green of spring. From the urban greenbelts near my studio in west metro Denver to Rocky Mountain National Park baby wildlife can be found just about everywhere. One of my favorite places is a fairly large green belt about 4 miles away where I am almost guarenteed to find baby foxes. The area is frequented by joggers, walkers, bikers, and birdwatchers which have made the foxes fairly accustomed to people so getting close enough with my 500mm lens is fairly easy.
Just so you know I never approach the fox dens directly and I always try to maintain a twenty to forty yard buffer so that the foxes still have a comfort zone and act natural. From this distance I’m always treated to some pretty exciting antics as the young foxes run around testing and learning their much needed life skills. Some of my other favorite spring subjects include mule deer and whitetail deer fawns, calf elk, ducklings and goslings and baby avocets to mention a few.

What about HDR?  At first, I thought it won’t work for me…I tend to be to “pure” and really never manipulate any of the images I shoot, heck I don’t even crop…what I shot is what you see.  But after several weeks of looking at HDR images on the internet and talking with a buddy [...]

A few weeks ago we produced a short video/podcast about what we take on the road to shoot a commercial/corporate project.  You all really liked it…Thanks…but most of you really wanted to see what we take on a wildlife shoot.  Over the past couple of days Dirk has been burning the midnight oil and has [...]

Do iguanas really exist in the wild in Colorado?  Not exactly…but we do have a very colorful lizard called the Collared Lizard and they can be found thoughout much of the high deserts near the four corners region.  Canon 1D Mark II and 500mm f4 lens – ISO 250 – 1/1000 sec – f9 – [...]

My camera has taken me all over the world…one of the coolest places I was fortunate enough to travel to was Wudang Mountain China.   We were there to produce a television pilot and I took every opportunity possible to photograph the people and culture.  Images stats – Canon 1D Mark II – Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 [...]

Summer is just around the corner and many of our clients have new products to shoot.  One of the coolest things about shooting these new products is that we get to use them before they ever hit the shelf.  Since we mostly shoot outdoor adventure/backpacking gear it also gives us a reason to set out [...]