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I recently picked up a very important addition to my photography equipment, and I can't wait to try it out tomorrow. I wore out my old one last year, and since then, it has been very difficult to photograph water birds. What essential piece of equipment am I talking about?...

Last Tuesday, April 22, was Earth Day - an event that's been reminding us to take care of our home planet for the past fifty-five years. Considering the current state of the Earth, though, there really wasn't much to celebrate. This thought came to me this week while watching Minamata,...

Prime or zoom? That's the question I asked myself in a new article published yesterday here on Photography Life. Last week, I tried to answer that question in style - not with a conventional prime or zoom, but with something I consider a giga-zoom! What else would you call a...

Last week, we published my first impressions of the new Nikon Z5 II. This Monday, I spent another day with this camera to refine and confirm my feelings. And yes, I think I'm pretty confident now. You don't need a deep bank account to photograph wildlife these days, even on...

The biggest photography news this week was undoubtedly the announcement of Nikon’s newest full-frame camera - the Z5 II. Thanks to the kindness of Nikon’s Czech branch, I got my hands on the country's very first copy just hours after it landed in their office. More importantly, the next morning...

We often tend to seek out striking subjects elsewhere, while hidden gems are right under our noses just waiting to be discovered. This week, while spending time with photographer Petr Jan Juračka, I had the once-in-a-lifetime chance to hold a massive vertebra from the largest Triceratops skeleton ever found. The...

Up here in the mountains of the northern Czech Republic, the snow slowly concedes defeat. The last patches are clinging to the shadows of the forest with their remaining strength before the spring sun chases them away for good. But in their place, another white carpet has spread across the...

Today, I have two things landing for you - an Ecuadorian Hillstar on a Chuquiraga flower, and another round of photography news. And soon, you may read my first impressions of the new Nikon Z 35mm f/1.2 lens, possibly as early as next week. If luck is on my side, I...

I don't know about you, but here outside my window at the 50th parallel north, spring has arrived in full force. At least, that's what the Nuthatch outside my window has been persistently announcing since early morning. If you've been in a deep winter's photographic slumber, it's time to charge...