Last week I had posted a poll asking readers and social media followers how often they have family portraits taken. After I dumped all of the votes into my public opinion projector, I ended up with some results, the winner of which surprised me a bit.

Family portraits have been a staple of society almost since the camera was invented and for hundreds of years before that as artists with brush and palette immortalized them on canvas. As photography became less expensive and more readily available, many families made regular portraits a part of their lives. (This poll was also posted [...]

Many of today’s dSLRs, if not most, are equipped with mirror lock-up/live view functionality. Does your camera have this option? If so, do you use it?

This fall will begin a new chapter not only in my personal life, but the life of my family as well. My wife and I will both begin classes in August (sheesh…only a month away!) for two very different tracks of study — Fine Arts for me, and Legal Studies for her. It’s something we [...]

Sites like eBay and Craigslist have revolutionized the way we buy products. Instead of going to the one electronics store in town (or the next town over, if, like me, you live in the middle of nowhere) and paying whatever they charge for a particular item, we can now get whatever we want from anywhere [...]