Moose Podcasts

Just what do I do to get ready for a shoot, aviation weekend shoot? That's a great question so I dedicated this Podcast to answering it. There was so much, I ever recorded my first addendum!

Just as we need to know when to start, we need to know when to stop. Do you know in your photography when it's time to call it quits?

We all want Thee Click. But how do we come about it and on a continual bases? We have to have a measure to determine Thee Click as we walk about, put our eye to the viewfinder and then find it one more time on our computer. Here's how I do about it.

Behind that camera is a warm blooded, passionate person taking in the world with all their senses. We need to infuse that camera with our heart. Here's a couple of ideas how.

My Bag of Confidence has evolved many times during my career but nothing so radical or complete as in the past year. Here's how and why.

We need just one photograph to share the wonders we are so fortunate to witness through the viewfinder. How can we be the solution and not part of the problem. That's just a start of the strategy!

We love our critters! Wildlife photographers though are causing our wild heritage and other photographer great harm. Here's some thoughts on preventing both.

The misconception is, if you own the best AF body, all your photographs will be tack sharp. Since they are not, it surely can't be the photographer. It just requires better AF .... making us AF challenged.

Bone dry ... could be from being out of bourbon during tax week or my bird feeders after being gone for a few days. But more than likely, I'm talking photography.

Folks have great questions, Z 9 game changer, WB really critical, Image library BU, Z800 and more as I get caught up some on your questions.

Do you make your photographs to conform to a rule? Or find a rule that conforms to your photographs? Does it matter, you photo suck because no rules apply?

It was a shoot the decades in the making. Even so, the odds were not high for success. After three hours, 15k images were captured on the card. How'd that comes to be and how's I get through them all? Let me tell you!

We are on what seems like a ever lasting question to improve our photography. In that quest, what is our possible realm of growth? I think there is no end to the possibilities if ...

Sitting at a table, I was asked, "Having fun?" Probably sitting there, it might not have seemed so, I was indoors on a gorgeous day. But actually I was and working on my photography at the same time. You having fun?

Our direction came from a title over forty years ago. Titles since have stopped my in m tracks. We love to give things titles but do they help move our photography forward?

With my Z 9 Fireside Chat video came the flood of emails asking, "Really, all mirrorless?!" and a whole lot more. I take some time and answer the questions why I've given up the mirror.

I love talking about the photograph. Not the settings or gear to make it, but the elements that make a photograph grab heartstrings and tell your story. Here's my conversation with myself about just that.

With the long nights of winter upon, it's time to think about and prep for spring. We have a short window we can take advantage of so we're ready. Here are some ideas for nesting bird season.

Photographs are all about preserving memories and in the perfect world, telling stories. My question is, what memories do you want your photographs to preserves, stories you want to tell and at what price?

Click bate brought out my curiosity. I had this title hit my feed and I deleted it knowing it was just click bate. Then later I went back to read just the comments to see where photogs were taking it. I was surprised!

Jasin Boland is the most wanted still photographer in Hollywood. Mad Max, The Matrix, James Bond, The Mummy are just some of his shoots over the decades. This conversation covers this, the Z9 and so much more!

Arranging elements in a viewfinder, selecting the right lens, defining the exposure and conquering white balance, this and so much more in our photography happens when we go from common to uncommon.

Workflow is an integral part of my photography, from organizing to learning. It's been years since I updated and shared my workflow. Here ya go with the 2022 Workflow!

"If you only had one lens ..." question suggest that the lens you would use all the time is the only lens. But what about that 2nd lens? To me, it is just as important as the primary lens. Got one?

It' that time of year requiring us to get cold at times to capture the hottest photos. How do we stay warm, that's what this podcast is all about.

Photographers, we as a blessed group being able to follow our passion with a camera in tow. We have the ability to share that talent and do so good for the world. These are my thoughts on Thanks & Giving!

What's the best tripod, is the D6 now obsolete, confused about which telephoto to purchase and does AI now replace camera craft, great questions I try to answer in this episode.

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Photography is this complicated all consuming passion where things can go cafooey! Thankfully, for much there is a fall back we all tend to forget.

There is an outside chance that improving your photography couldn't be as simple as going back to the old saying. "If you don't have anything nice to say ..."

We all know Murphy's Law but so you know Stapp Law or that the same guy wrote both More importantly, do you know how both can help us with our photography?

We all desire that great photograph, and we desire it to come only as hard as it was to get in front of that photograph. That is often not what happens so we try to make it a numbers game. That doesn't work either.

I've have the good fortune to wrap myself in this countries fall color from coast to coast for many decades. There is one photo though that still eludes. Do I have plan to capture it this year? Yes!

Photography puts up in front of us many fine lines. These lines if crossed may or may not create photograph success. How do we come up and and know when to cross these lines?

There are a lot of steps, processes in the successful photograph. This week while shooting at Philmont Scout Ranch, one of the most important and basic was used for day. Scouting!

It hit me bad when in the beginning and luckily got past it fast, but anxiety to learn can really throw many curves in your learning path!

When do you, I, feel comfortable going click with our camera? Does the creativity come from inside or outside the wheelhouse? Have you thought about it at all? Had a conversation that made me think about it.

A picture is worth a thousand words ... ever heard that statement? It's powerful and puts a bit of pressure on our photography. But what if we relate our photograph to a paragraph of words?

Yep, that's how the email started but the terms I use are often because they are the ones that helped me learn photography. They might help you ...

The best judge of our photography, our growth as a photographer, is ourselves. The criteria in which we use then is kinda important. In judging a bird photography rewards, it made me reflect on my own images.

The emails of questions were pilling up so time to get some answered. Jeff, Carol, Judy & Jon, here are my thoughts on cropping, printing, lens and filing.

I'm very fortunate to receive great questions from you folks and Beth's is one of them. What did she ask and what were my answers, well you'll just have to listen to find out. I know it will help your photography!

Our camera gear in order to perform at its best requires us to provide it some basic TLC every time we use it. You know that that is and how to do it? You will after listening this podcast.

With the "lull" the past year has brought to many, the idea of turning the passion of photography into a paycheck has creeped into the minds of many. One of those asked me if it's worth being in biz? Here's my answer.

We all want to be successful with our photographs, receive praise and admiration for our inspired efforts. That's all well and good, but when it comes to improving our photography, everyone gets a trophy?

Photography is a craft that is forgiving in some areas, one of them where it's not is light. Mastering take a lifetime but seeing it on the scene, in the viewfinder and then in the digital darkroom are the steps towards that goal!

As long as you are human, those moments when you get flustered thing just seem to go from bad to worse. The problem is, it can cost us a photograph. Here's how to avoid those moments.

a very carefully kept secret that it seems needs to be told. The answer is ...

I can't think of a single action I take in photography that wasn't built on a past experience. The strength of your photography today is based on the foundation you laid in the past. Your growth only as great as the past your experienced.