Olympic National Park July 2021 tour report

My July Olympic National Park photo tour, co-led with John Barclay, was the longest Olympic workshops I’ve ever done. I thought we might run out of locations, but as we ended, I realized we probably could have spent at least another day or two in the area. The first half, based out of Port Angeles, […]

Hyperfocal focusing revisited

I’ve written about hyperfocal focusing before, here and here. Briefly, hyperfocal focusing is a technique used in wide angle landscape photography to maximize the apparent focus from the closest object in the foreground to the most distant. Using a high f-stop number like f/16 or f/22, focus at a specific point (determined by a number […]

Rod’s rules for better compositions

Here are a few of my own internal guidelines that have served me well over the years. Could be that they’ll help you too. Look around without your camera I should add “if time and light allows.” I’ve found some of my favorite shots by simply getting out of the car and wandering around without […]


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