I’m no stranger to medium format photography, having bought my first camera forty years ago in October 1984 (a Lubitel 166B Soviet made camera, but only £17.95!). In the intervening years, I’ve owned Hasselblad, Pentax and Fujifilm MF film cameras and a Pentax digital camera, but I’ve recently become dissatisfied with my Pentax 645Z– it’s been a great camera, but lens quality could be iffy and I never could find a really sharp telephoto lens. So in August I bought into the Fujifilm GFX system with a new GFX100SII.

In October 2024, I had seven photographers from all over the country join me in Acadia. This year they came from New Hampshire (x2), Maine, Colorado, Illinois, and Massachusetts (x2). One was returning after joining me before in 2022, and another became my first 3x attendee (2019, 2023 and 2024). There was a lot of excitement in the air as we met on our first afternoon, went through introductions, then headed out for the first excursion of the week. All together, we would go on about twenty-five excursions over the next five days.

Elements Magazine is a relative newcomer in the photo magazine world, but it’s quickly become one of the top magazines for landscape photographers and always features some of the best landscape images and photographers in the world. I was first asked to write for one of their first issues in 2021, with an article on Acadia National Park.

I’m honored to now be a part of Photographer’s Trailnotes, a website with dozens of photography guides for locations all across America. Founder Tim Weir approached me a few months ago about listing my book on his site and I jumped at the chance to be a part of it. The 3rd edition of my popular Photographer’s Guide to Acadia is now listed on Tim’s website and I’m looking forward to partnering with him.

Looks can be deceiving... Spring in the Kentucky hills can look more like autumn with a smattering of reds, yellows and oranges amongst the trees.

It’s been 28 years (back to 1996) since I first published my fine art photography website. Since that time, I’ve made fifteen major design changes, and today marks the debut of the sixteenth version. All images are much larger and the whole experience should make navigation easier and more enjoyable.

A couple days ago, we had several inches of heavy, wet snow where I live. I hadn’t planned on going out to make any images, but my 18 year old daughter wanted to go out in the snow, so we grabbed a couple umbrellas and a camera and headed into the whiteout.

The 2023 workshop wrapped up a few weeks ago, after five days of early wake up calls, shooting the sunrise through to the sunset, and exploring the park with our cameras. We had a full contingent of eight photographers, plus our ‘special guest’ and my good friend Adam Pratt (formerly of Adobe Systems), who is a wealth of knowledge in all things Photoshop and Lightroom, or anything else in the Adobe realm…

After ten days of photographing Autumn in Acadia (Maine), I was well primed for more color. I was supposed to do a shoot in Michigan in late October, but it was cancelled. I unexpectedly found myself with a couple days of ‘free time’ so I drove up to Illinois’ largest state park, Rock Cut, near Rockford and the Illinois/ Wisconsin border.

Haddon Hall is a medieval English country house dating in parts back to the 11th century, with many architectural features dating back to Tudor times and earlier. Several movies have been filmed here over the years, including three versions of Jane Eyre, Elizabeth, Pride & Prejudice and The Princess Bride.

I was specially hoping to find buildings that had survived the Dust Bowl in the 1930's. After a long drive, I spent the night in a town that was an epicenter for some of the worst dust storms that wreaked havoc on the area, then drove out the next morning in search of some history.

I was specially hoping to find buildings that had survived the Dust Bowl in the 1930's. After a long drive, I spent the night in a town that was an epicenter for some of the worst dust storms that wreaked havoc on the area, then drove out the next morning in search of some history.

Get ready for the 2023 Images of Acadia photography workshop! This is always a highlight of the year for me and I can’t wait to do it again this October. The dates will be October 10-15th… prime time for the Autumn foliage.

The photos represent a different era, when a young guy with a camera could walk anywhere in the airport for hours, even up to the gates after a quick scan through security. When passengers didn’t have smartphones and you got in contact with the outside world by using one of the public pay phones on the wall. When everyone carried physical tickets with them. And passengers smoked while they waited to board their flights.

Bonsai Trees, Royal Horticultural Society Gardens/ Wisley, Surrey, England

The Images of Acadia 2022 workshop was one of the best ever, with some of the nicest photographers I’ve ever had. We hit the road running, usually visiting 3-5 locations each day, starting with a 5:30am meetup then heading out to seek the sunrise, taking a break or two for breakfast and lunch, then ending the day with a sunset shoot somewhere in the park.

One of the best parts of my job is getting to see places and things that most people never get to experience, so hopping on a boat to photograph a tiny, remote island in the Atlantic Ocean sounded fantastic to me….

Join me on the October 2022 Acadia landscape photography workshop!