Playing with fire

There are groups of people, including a friend of mine, who occasionally hide out and spin steel wool all night. (You know who you are, Jim!) This has made me extremely jealous for a long time because it looks so incredibly cool. What is steel wool spinning? At its most basic, steel wool spinning involves Read More …

A photo class along Minnesota’s North Shore in June

Minnesota’s North Shore is gorgeous in the spring, with plenty of spring flowers and rushing water. Unfortunately, I never seem to get up there in spring to enjoy those things! This year I decided to make it happen, so I signed up for a North Shore photography workshop with Don Tredinnick and Peter Berman of Read More …

Under the Stars Lightroom preset and Nerstrand Big Woods

As is probably obvious, I tend to be very literal and way too serious, traits that carry over into my photography. Generally my goal as a photographer is to recreate exactly what I saw. That’s a necessity for a photojournalist, but not exactly the recipe for inspired art. This doesn’t mean I don’t edit my Read More …

Warped tiles

The other week I stayed at a really lovely B&B in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The Green Heron was one of those places where pretty much everything is perfect. . . but I was mostly obsessed with the bathroom tiles. See, the simple, elegant bathroom had blue tiles in the shower which, when viewed through the Read More …