Coquille River and lighthouse   The nice thing about photography is that one can utilize almost any type of weather to their advantage. Because I have wanted to play around with lowlight photography with the goal of blurring wave action as much as possible, I have looked forward to some cloudy, overcast morning with which to work with the various opportunities the local area offers. On this particular morning, we had a combination of a high tide and high surf

  The other morning I ventured out to Cape Blanco hoping for a repeat of the wonderful sunrise that we had the previous day along the Oregon Coast. However, what I discovered when I got to the cape was a heavy fog that densely hung around the south side of the cape to include Port Orford. On the North side, where I put myself the fog came and went providing me with some nice glimpses of the light and the

  Growing up on the West Coast produced an interest in all things on the opposite side of the continent. That being said,  I think I have had a particular fascination with the Maritimes since Anne Of Green Gables made its appearance on public television. But more than that, with a name like Robicheaux and a father born in Saint Martinsville, Louisiana I also have a direct relationship to  early Nova Scotia, or more correctly, to Acadia as the seventeen century

  Of the companies that make a suite of Photoshop plug in’s, I personally fine Nik Software’s group of software products to be the best of the breed, from Viviza to Silver Efex Pro, the are just darn good. Their latest addition, Color Efex Pro 4, is really a great upgrade and improvement over their prior version. First of all, Color Efex Pro 4 in their Complete package, comes with an impressive 55 different filters with each one individually controlled

Standing at Tunnel View in Yosemite National Park can be an intimidating experience. One is reminded not only of all the great photographers who have come before, from Ansel Adams to Galen Rowell, Frans Lanting, Art Wolfe or John Shaw, but also of the contemporary ones making a name for themselves. Many of these greats spent a significant amount of their lives exploring and photographing, becoming intimately familiar with the nuances and moods of Yosemite.  There are so many fine

Sometimes there is something just so cool that it has to be shared…… How many times have any of you prepared for a photo trip or just an excursion out and searched around for a decent map of where you wanted to go followed by coordinating between your location and the map. On a recent trip to Rome, the iPhone with its GPS abilities and an app called Rome2Go made our getting around a lot easier. But now there is

a waxing crescent moon over Haystack Rock   The other day, I found myself rather surprised by this waxing moon just after sunset and vowed to make myself more informed of the moons schedules.  I am rather well prepared and pay attention to the sun’s activity, times of sunrise and sunset as well as the various twilight times but realized I need to do more with regard to the moon, as they can add so much to an image. The combination

What is your favorite image? This is one of those tiresome questions, like “What is your favorite book or your favorite song?” It gets hard to single them down, yet at this time of year, when I decide to enter a couple of images for some of the judged events, I continually come across this image which has to rank right up near the top. The moment is now lost in time and irreplaceable. It occurred on the Homer Spit

    It is always nice to visit West Seattle for the views across Elliott Bay at the Seattle skyline as I did last night. Here, a black and white just worked so much better than the original. I find it difficult to get the colors right these days with the various vapor lights that cities use. Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro 2 is my B&W conversion software of choice.  

While getting ready to post some of my lighthouse images I rediscovered this image of the Battery Point Lighthouse in Crescent City, California taken with Fuji Velvia 50. Personally, this is one of my most cherished images and it so encompasses why people become enamored with photography. Standing on a windswept breakwater in mid June I was blessed with watching a remarkable sunset and  captured the essence of what lighthouses meant to those who sailed the seas in days gone