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Paris, the City of Light I’m very excited to let you know my new online course at BetterPhoto.com is now open for enrollment! During this 4 week course, I’ll cover how to create surreal and beautiful imagery through the art and technique of long exposure photography. You’ll learn how to convey the passage of time,…

The London Eye in action! Generally the London Eye is perceived as moving much, much slower, so I thought I’d create an image where the wheel seems to be spinning rather quickly! In real life, the London Eye moves almost imperceptibly around the sky. It took 113 seconds to create this image. This long exposure…

This image started with a long exposure to create mirror perfect stillness in the water. The sky was nearly featureless, a great time to work with textures! To create the sepia look with the subtle texture, I used Flypaper Textures, Desert Djinn from the Summer Painter Collection to add the warm golden tones along with…

London absolutely captured my heart. I can’t wait to go back, I loved seeing the iconic Big Ben! Making pictures during twilight, or the blue hour, as it’s often called, allows the photographer to create beautiful story-telling imagery. The sky takes on a deep rich color during twilight, and the light is balanced within the scene, but…

The Moulin Rouge area is one of my favorite places in Paris! Each street has a different vantage point, along with a million things going on at once. As cars passed, they created streaks of light which added drama of the colorful scene. I had fun capturing taillights during a long exposure time. The Moulin…