

Around Town: Night Walks
Take a camera, even at night. If you see some color, there is a photo to be had. Find a place to set the camera down, and you can have a sharp, low ISO exposure. You only need a few seconds, even with the lens stopped down. No flash was used in any of the photos below. They all were taken with a Nikon Coolpix A, a crop sensor point and shoot. For cityscapes, that's really all you need. Even if a person walks through your picture, they'll disappear with an exposure of more tha


Travelling South: Morning at the YMCA
Sometimes the world paints a picture for you and all you have to do is frame it. The local YMCA in Orlando painted the picture, and all it took was a walk around the building to frame it. The rules were simple. If it's red, frame it. You can't have too much red in a picture. And if there's a little geometry, that helps too. And if you have all the primary colors, well, enough said. Someone at the YMCA was painting pictures for a morning photo shoot, and here it is. Gear Photo