How to photograph basketball action and squirmy kids…it’s all the same stuff.
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...
The wonderful and life-changing Time-Life Series of Photography
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. They were...
How to Shoot Action on a Bright Snowy Day
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 sent for...
TOP 50 FAN PHOTOS OF 2016
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. I look forward to this all year long. It’s become a little annual ritual at my house between Christmas...
My Three Sons
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 opportunity...
Philadelphia / Nick Kelsh Photography Workshop 2016
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...
How to Photograph Thanksgiving with a Smartphone
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...
How to Photograph the SUPERMOON
(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: https://www.facebook.com/events/628467437315081 First of...
An Amazing Photo Duplicate
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....
Day After Election Day 2016
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....
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