This landscape was one of the first things I photographed with my new Nikon Z 24-120 mm f/4 S lens. A really great lens for traveling, by the way. Can you tell what volcano is in the photo? I'll give you a hint! The horses grazing so idyllically around the...
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Photographing Exotic Birds Close to Home
It’s starting to rain outside, the days are getting shorter, and my holiday time is irreversibly over. Most of us are probably skimping on our remaining vacation days for the end of the year. What a situation! There are distant lands, exotic animals, and adventure awaiting – but no time to photograph them.
A Rare Encounter with the Santa Marta Screech-Owl
One thing that strikes uninitiated photographers about the tropics - for instance, some parts of South America - is how surprisingly unusual it is to encounter an animal. Now, you may be shaking your head and wondering if I've gone mad. Are we talking about the same tropics? It's a...
Photography News: DxO Sale, Canon Lens Rumors
Before we get into the news of this week, let me ask you a question. How do you prepare for a photographic expedition? For example, I clean my equipment, charge all my batteries, and sharpen my machete – but most importantly, I study the resources available to get the most out of the place I’m going.
The Bright Side of the Disaster
The most popular articles on the Internet always seem to be downers. Just notice how little good news there is on a typical news website. It’s mostly celebrity gossip and death. So, to radically increase the views on my articles, let me tell you about a time that things went wrong.
Photography News: Nikon Lens Sale, Leica 35mm Film Camera
I promised you a flood of vivid colours from the (neo)tropics of Ecuador. But the image I shared with you in the last Photography News was completely black and white, so I'll try to fix it now. I guess I'll never get tired of photographing hummingbirds. Their frenetic activity at...
What’s In My Camera Bag? – Libor Vaicenbacher
I took my first tentative photographic steps with Pentax film cameras. Since 2005, however, a Nikon camera is what’s been nestled in my photo backpack. First it was the beautiful FM3A, then the pioneering D70, and then the excellent D300. With the advent of the digital era, I started to focus on bird photography.
Photography News: Hasselblad X2D Rumor, Hard Drive Sales
My Ecuador expedition is over. It's time to sort out the memories and also the photographs. What I love about traveling are the places that provide the eyes with different flavors than they normally experience. Such as the scene of fishermen in Puerto López bringing out their night catch from the...
Photography News: Tamron 20-40mm Lens, Leica Discount
If any place in the world can be described as the global epicentre of biodiversity, is it the village where I am writing this Photography News for you? I'm sitting on a covered terrace in Mindo, Ecuador, rain drumming on the tin roof above me, sipping jugo de Guanábana and...
Photography News: Nikon Lens Firmware, Sony Sales
I'm writing today's "Photography News" under unusual circumstances. At the moment, I am moving at around 900 km per hour, it's freezing outside the window, and in front of me - somewhere in the distance beyond Atlantic - lies South America. In about six hours, I will step off the...