Before you head off in the car for a great summer road trip, be sure you have the right cables, chargers and photography accessories to make your trip more memorable. Watch the video above for a complete checklist of tips! Charge up Don’t be the person who arrives at the
Jackson Hole, Wyoming is one of the most beautiful, yet pricey places you might consider visiting. It’s a popular spot for wealthy millionaires and billionaires to spend a few days in their second home during summers and ski seasons, as well as ordinary folks who love the skiing and national
The Hollywood sign is easily the biggest star in Los Angeles, and both easy to photograph and very elusive. It sits atop Mt. Lee looking down at Los Angeles, so it’s easy to spot all over town. But if you want to get up close and personal with it, you
The iPhone famously has no manual, and leaves it to us to figure things out. That’s fine. The camera works. Open the app, click the white button and take a photo, right? True, but what about all those secret features Apple never told us about? I’ve stumbled onto many of
I’ve brought my cameras all over Japan, from Tokyo to Kyoto, Osaka to Kobe and then some. I learned a lot about how to get the best shots and avoid some common mistakes. So in the first of what I hope to be a new series of installments, I lay
Most people start their Japanese adventures in Tokyo. It’s the largest city (biggest world population at 40 million!) and easiest to get to on a direct flight. Tokyo is wild, colorful, electric and jammed with people. But as cool as it is, there is a smaller, less intense city in
I recently spent 10 days touring the western part of Japan, filming several episodes of my PhotowalksTV series, which is seen on YouTube and Amazon. I left my big Sony (designed in Japan!) cameras back home, and only took two iPhones (assembled in China), a Samsung Galaxy S21 (made in
It’s hard to get a great free shot of the Las Vegas Strip from down on the ground, as you’re right in the middle of it. You can try standing in one of the overhead crosswalks, but they are covered in dirty glass. This makes it hard to get a
Here’s a question posed by Debbie this week: “Is there a good photo scanning app that you know of? I was just in the App Store and there are 1 million of them. My son wants me to scan some old photos for him and I was going to download
Underwater photography with the iPhone? It doesn’t seem that long ago that we tried to revive wet smartphones by sticking them in a bag of rice and hoping for the best. Now, most modern smartphones are “water-resistant.” If water gets into them, they won’t be destroyed, like in years past.
One of the most popular bird photography seminars in the world happens every December, when hundreds of photographers flock to the tiny town of Socorro, New Mexico to document the migration of some 20,000 birds en route to Mexico. Could I pull it off with just an iPhone? The serious
How many states can you visit that have the oldest church in the country, the oldest state Capitol and the only one in a totally round building, a Native American reservation that’s been operating continuously for over 1,000 years and can also boast some amazing food everywhere you look? That
