Photographing Winter Cemeteries Wintertime cemetery photography - a great project some chilly quiet weekend. Changing the photos to black and white is a fantastic way to pick up the bloodless land ... 
Sunset at a Desert Cemetery Julie Ferguson and I hit the road yesterday at sunset to go to a most lonely cemetery in the desert.Then, we headed to an abandoned ranch in a cornfield area and found s ... 
How To Make a Profile PicI have been asked from time to time, how to make a good profile pic that portrays one's personality and also takes best advantage of appearance.(This was an accidental s ... 
Abandoned Churches and GraveyardsThese are photos I have taken over the years - I have a fascination for forgotten spiritual centers, from churches and monasteries to graveyards. ... 
Abandoned Places: Belongings Left Inside It's rare that people leave a home with belongings intact. It takes a special set of circumstances for this to occur. Let's have a look at what it's like to perform urba ... 
Abandoned and Haunted Graveyards I stumbled upon an abandoned cemetery in a forest one time. I pushed back brambles and overgrowth to expose headstones that hadn't seen the light in 50 years. It was an ... 
Photographing Abandoned Places: Weathering & NatureThe most amazing thing about abandoned sites is the lack of doors, windows, roofs, framing... Light comes in, plants come in, rain comes in, critters come in, and dirt, ... 
Urban Exploration: Desert Updates Julie and I wrote the book "Abandoned Places: Abandoned Memories (Desert Edition)" and these three locations were in the book. I did a psychic read of the past from each ... 
Photographing Abandoned Places: Depth of Field & Contrast"Wish You Were Here!" If you want to portray that statement, you need to place the viewer in that space and understand just how vast something is or how contracted. You ... 
URBEX: Photographing Abandoned PlacesI could have stepped back from the motor court and taken a shot of the row of rooms straight on, but having walked in closer, I realized the story was in the telling of ... 
Photographing Abandoned Places: Rule of ThreeThe advice on how to tackle photographing an abandoned site is limitless. With Photoshop, many can take rather so-so photos and sex them up with deeper colors, blurring, ... 
Abandoned JailsI've been to a few abandoned jails and they are always interesting to photograph. They seem like torture chambers when there is no life around, lights, noise, blankets, ... 
Urban ExplorationUrban exploration is the exploring of buildings and structures made for man, but long since abandoned. Some call it "UrbEx" for short.Finding abandoned sites is not all ... 
Abandoned Islandsabandoned islands are the stuff adventure movies are made up of. We think of "Castaway" or "Swiss Family Robinson," but there are islands that, for various reasons, are ... 
How to Photograph Abandoned BuildingsJulie and I went back to the abandoned motel (above) used for one of the chapters in our Abandoned Places: Abandoned Memories (Desert Edition) book that has psychic read ... 
