by NIck Kelsh | May 8, 2017 | Blog
Here’s my take on Banff, Canada: I’ve been to places AS beautiful as Banff but nothing MORE beautiful than Banff – that’s just not possible. (The Amalfi coast in Italy comes to mind.) When you drive from Calgary to Banff, watching the...
by NIck Kelsh | Apr 28, 2017 | Blog
The mystique of New Orleans is in the air. Sounds and smells are everywhere. And then more sounds. World-class musicians perfo legendary French quarterstreet corner after street corner along with local children playing horns and drums that have been in their families...
by NIck Kelsh | Mar 12, 2017 | Blog, Snow
The forecast says a big blizzard is heading my way. In this case “my way” means that millions of people are going to get nailed on the East Coast of the United States this week—I live in Philadelphia. As a North Dakota boy I have a lot of snow photography...
by NIck Kelsh | Mar 7, 2017 | Blog
It’s basketball tournament season and, as it happens, it’s also squirmy kids season. If you think about it, athletes are really just squirmy kids in corporate-sponsored costumes. By happy coincidence, I can probably help those of you who have never wrapped your heads...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 18, 2017 | Blog
I can’t believe I’ve never mentioned these books on this page before. These four books are part of a set called the Time-Life Series of Photography. They were published decades ago— I think when I was in high school so for me the timing was exquisite. ...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 10, 2017 | Blog, Snow
Anyone who’s read anything that I’ve written is probably well aware – the words ad nausea and come to mind – that our son Teddy eats and sleeps and thinks about sports virtually all the time. ( Mostly baseball. See the t-shirt that Uncle Bob and Aunt Kate...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 1, 2017 | Blog
photo by Kim MacDonald Cameron Our celebration of moments in life, lovingly preserved by the people who live them. Thank you to all who share your memories with us. View the Top 50 Photos! I look forward to this all year long. It’s become a little annual ritual at my...
by NIck Kelsh | Dec 26, 2016 | Blog
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas day with your family yesterday. We were thrilled that Chaz (my oldest son) was able to join us for the holiday this year, it made our Christmas. He lives in Boston where he’s hard at work at law school, so it’s a rare...
by NIck Kelsh | Dec 18, 2016 | Blog
It was pure joy and with pure pride for me to share my hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at a recent Nick Kelsh Photography workshop. The attendees came from all over the United States and shared and celebrated the birthplace of American democracy. The sense of...
by NIck Kelsh | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog
Obviously, anyone who regularly shoots digital photographs is riding a technological wave or hiking on shifting sand—call it what you want. In other words, the best camera for the job last year may not be the best camera this year. So here’s a little...
by NIck Kelsh | Nov 12, 2016 | Blog
(Note from Nick: If this blog helps you shoot some great moon photos we’d love to see them. I’m going to put together a How to Photograph the Moon webinar with the photos we collect at our Facebook Event:...
by NIck Kelsh | Nov 11, 2016 | Blog
What are the odds? These are two different photos and they were taken by two DIFFERENT photographers at our October 2016 Nick Kelsh Photography Weekend Workshop. Yup, they were standing next to each other and they pushed the button within milleseconds of each other....
by NIck Kelsh | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog
It really happened. It wasn’t a dream…or a nightmare. It really happened. Many of us are in pain today and many of us are not, but the fact is all we have now is each other. It’s time to hold hands and watch the sun rise which it happened to do this morning....
by NIck Kelsh | Nov 8, 2016 | Blog
It’s obviously a big day here in our country. Don’t worry, I’m not going to get political, but I do want to say a couple of things about the election. First, vote. As we waited to vote this morning my neighbor had tears in her eyes as she described this sacred act to...
by NIck Kelsh | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog
We’ve noticed what could be the beginning of an amazing trend as our Nick Kelsh Photography Weekend Workshops continue to grow and mature… A few months ago we launched our initial weekend in the pastoral countryside of New York State where...
by NIck Kelsh | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog
Nothing says family memory-keeping more than photos of our kids enjoying time-honored holiday traditions. So before we look ahead to the upcoming holidays, take a moment to look back at our Halloween Photo Contest winners. I’d like to give a big boo out—that...
by NIck Kelsh | Oct 11, 2016 | Blog
Walton, New York is not the easiest place in the world to get to, but people came from Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to spend a beautiful fall weekend with the Kelsh family to, first, make new lifelong friends, and secondly,...
by NIck Kelsh | Aug 27, 2016 | Blog
It was wonderful and memorable and challenging and and inspiring and imperfect all at the same time. It was bound to be—it was the first one. It was the inaugural Nick Kelsh Country Weekend Photography Workshop in New York’s bucolic farm country a couple...
by NIck Kelsh | Aug 4, 2016 | Blog
Photography’s a lot like all of the arts. It’s often what’s below the surface that’s more interesting than the apparent and the obvious. Some of the little moments we pay almost no attention turn into our very best photographs. Funny how that works. (And how a...
by NIck Kelsh | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog
Both of them SWEAR they didn’t miss him and they’re both sticking to their story—and I asked each of them several dozen times. They didn’t see each other for eight days when Alexander was away at Boy Scout camp last week. Teddy was home alone with us and seemed...
