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"The Pano Rocks!": Why Shooting Panoramic Photos Can Be So Fulfilling and So Much Fun
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Oct 10, 2018  |  0 comments

The exclamatory headline was in an e-mail sent to me by Dr. Alan Sloyer when I asked him to forward the high-res file for this image, which he took in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on a family vacation in 2017.

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A Valiant Struggle
Staff  |  May 01, 2013  |  First Published: Feb 01, 2013  |  5 comments
Walking along the boardwalk at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida, I was taking pictures of birds when I heard a thunderous roar emerging from under the boardwalk. I also heard a huge splash and people screaming. I knew without looking that an alligator had emerged from hiding and grabbed something in the water. Looking into the water I saw the alligator with a turtle in its mouth. My emotions elevated into help mode and my impulse was to grab a stick and hit the beast in an effort to free the turtle that was attempting to escape but caught on the alligator’s huge teeth. I also realized the alligator could severely injure or even kill me.
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Almost Walked Away…
Staff  |  Jan 16, 2013  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2012  |  7 comments
During a recent photo shoot getaway at Joshua Tree National Park, my primary vision was a foreground filled with a Joshua tree and the background would consist of a large rock formation with star trails circling the scene.

While driving up to higher elevation searching for the perfect scene, it became evident that it had recently snowed and I spotted this snowman that a mother and her two young sons were just completing. I stopped for a while and enjoyed making a few images of the snowman and as I was walking back to my vehicle it dawned on me that this rare desert snowman would make a great subject for my star trail image.

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Always Carry Your Camera: How a Botanical Photographer Captured a Beautiful Butterfly Image
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jul 10, 2019  |  0 comments

You can call this photograph the result of a fortunate series of events.

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Black-and-White Street Photography Tips: How David Ingraham Uses an iPhone to Capture the Moment
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Nov 15, 2017  |  0 comments

The iPhone changed everything, including street photography.

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Bottle Rocket: How an Imaginative Photographer Created a Colorful Image
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Dec 23, 2016  |  0 comments

Formerly a professional markets technical representative for Nikon, and an instructor for the Nikon School of Photography, Garcia’s travels across the country and around the world presented him with many room-service breakfast trays, from which he took the Tabasco and ketchup bottles that accompanied the meals.

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Climbing Partners
Staff  |  Feb 07, 2013  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2013  |  5 comments
This pair of cream-colored mountain goats presented themselves on one of my early morning trips to the Mt. Evans Wilderness in Arapaho National Forest, southwest of Idaho Springs, Colorado. They could have been mates, sisters, brothers, or rivals. The hair raised along their backbones, particularly the goat on the right, suggests they were spooked by the presence of people. At 13,000 feet above sea level, this scene, as well as the thin air, literally took my breath away. Only three photographers were privileged to shoot this scene, which changed a second later, for eternity. Nature and photography are funny that way.
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Cover Story: When a Peaceful Nature Photo Becomes a Crime Scene
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Aug 05, 2016  |  0 comments

I’d been looking for a nature photo—a grabber with a story behind it. I found it on the cover of The Killing Lessons, a compelling, disturbing crime novel I was reading. The photo had obviously been manipulated to serve the novel’s plot, so in addition to a likely story behind the image, there’s a story ahead of it as well.

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Don’t Look Now
Staff  |  Jan 31, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 01, 2013  |  0 comments
The light wasn’t right on the day John Conn saw the scene, so he came back the next day at a time when the shadows would work in his favor. Then he waited. The geometry of the legs of a trousered figure striding by was distracting. “I really wanted a woman because they usually dress in lighter, more colorful clothing,” John says, “and I needed a more solid form, with more of a flow. And she had to be the right height, too.” His next opportunity was a bicyclist…who veered away from the perfect spot, spoiling the alignment. Then a woman came by and John took the photograph you see here.
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Double Rainbow
Staff  |  Apr 30, 2012  |  First Published: Mar 01, 2012  |  3 comments
I captured this image on a backpacking trip to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan one wet, stormy morning. I’ll never forget rounding the corner to the beach at dawn, instantly getting blasted by 25 to 30 mph winds and standing in awe of the massive 15- to 20-foot waves that were plowing into the shoreline. I decided to start shooting what was becoming an amazingly intense sky when all of the sudden a rainbow—than a double—materialized in the frame. I never moved the camera when the rainbows showed up—they were compositionally perfect in the viewfinder!
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Drone On: How Todd Kennedy Captured a Prize-Winning Aerial Shot with a DJI Drone & Great Timing
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Mar 31, 2017  |  0 comments

The amazing aerial photo above might not have got off the ground if it hadn’t been for social media. 

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Enjoying Life
Staff  |  Oct 07, 2011  |  First Published: Aug 01, 2011  |  0 comments
My husband and I have a Texas peach tree in our backyard that in the spring covers itself with pink flowers during a brief two-week period. When this happens we are literally surrounded with all kinds of insects flying all over the place, getting intoxicated on the sweet nectar of the flowers. It is one of those spectacles of nature that we look forward to witnessing every year.
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Eye Spy: Photographers Need To Look Here, There, And Everywhere To Get A Winning Shot
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Feb 24, 2015  |  0 comments

If there’s one thing to be learned from a 27-year career shooting for the New York Daily News, covering everything from breaking news to sports, food to fashion, it’s to keep your eyes open. David Handschuh calls this photo “the ultimate walking around with your eyes open picture.”

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Family Tie
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jun 29, 2014  |  First Published: May 01, 2014  |  0 comments
When Nathan Crowder shows his work at the Tennessee Art League’s monthly gallery show in downtown Nashville, he favors the maximum effect of displaying a few large images rather than, say, ten 8x10s. Not too long ago, this photo got an especially strong, emotional, and gratifying reaction.
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Fine Art Tips: Why Location Is Key But Not Everything in Fine Art Photography
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Aug 24, 2017  |  0 comments

You’re on Meols Beach, on the Irish Sea, looking east across the River Mersey; those lights are Liverpool. The beach is the place where imaging happens for Ray Mcbride when time and tide are just right.

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