LightCentric Photography

Most of us are familiar with America’s National Park System (NPS), and many of the more famous Parks. Many are also familiar with the National Forests which are ubiquitous throughout our country. But there are some lesser known components of the NPS, including the National Wild and Scenic Rivers, an

This isn’t about gear. The internet is a vast resource for finding gear and finding reviews and information about gear to do your due diligence before buying. But this blog is about resources for the photographer to enhance the photographic endeavor. I like to plan my photography excursions, whether

“It’s just emotion that’s taking me over.” This short lyrical riff from the 70′s era Samantha Sang song, Emotion,” (written and performed by the Gibbs brothers – the Bee Gees) might just be a good photographic theme (just to assure those of you might be worried, no, I was not/am not a Disco fan – [.

Grand Turk Island is an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a chain of islands in the Caribbean under British Rule, just southeast of the Bahamas. The island derives its name comes from a species of cactus on the island, the Turk’s Cap Cactus, which has a distinctive cap, reminiscent of a Turkis

Most of the time, cruise ships are at sea during the night and in port during the day. After the beautiful St. Maarten sunset, we disembarked from the Philipsburg cruise terminal dock and made for St. Thomas. We pulled into the Charlotte Amalie deepwater port early Thursday morning. I stood on our b

After a day at sea, the second leg of our Caribbean Cruise took us to St. Maarten. With no on-shore agenda planned, we spent a relaxing day shopping in some of the jewelry stores and boutiques, and walking the streets of Philipsburg, the main city on the Dutch side, even drinking one of the local [.

Two years ago, we took our first ever Cruise, spending 7 days aboard the Princess Cruise Line Diamond Princess on the Alaskan “Inside Passage.” That trip was, for me, partly about photographing much of the Alaskan wilderness that seems to be everywhere you look up there. Last month, we took our seco