Photo Of The Day By Marti Phillips

Photo By Marti Phillips Today’s Photo of the Day is “Marmolada” by Marti Phillips. Location: Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. “Sunrise on Marmolada as seen from Refugio Lagazuoi, just a week before a large serac on the mountain collapsed due to warming temperatures, killing eleven and injuring eight hikers,” explains Phillips. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo...

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Photo Of The Day By Debbie O’Dell

Photo By Debbie O’Dell Today’s Photo of the Day is “Bull Elk” by Debbie O’Dell. Location: Park City, Utah. “This bull elk walked out from behind the colorful scrub oak and gave me a quick look!” says O’Dell. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments...

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High Falls Of The Pigeon River

High Falls of the Pigeon River sits on the border of Minnesota and Ontario, Canada, and is the tallest waterfall in Minnesota at 120 feet. The waterfall can be reached by hiking an easy 1-mile trail from the visitor center at Grand Portage State Park. The park is day-use only, but several other state parks along Lake Superior offer camping year-round. With numerous hiking trails, lakes, rivers, beaches...

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High Falls Of The Pigeon River

High Falls of the Pigeon River sits on the border of Minnesota and Ontario, Canada, and is the tallest waterfall in Minnesota at 120 feet. The waterfall can be reached by hiking an easy 1-mile trail from the visitor center at Grand Portage State Park. The park is day-use only, but several other state parks along Lake Superior offer camping year-round. With numerous hiking trails, lakes, rivers, beaches...

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Photo Of The Day By Bob Faucher

Photo By Bob Faucher Today’s Photo of the Day is “Against the Odds” by Bob Faucher. Location: Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon. “A solitary cottonwood dons its striking autumn colors, highlighted by afternoon sun, at the edge of a drab forest of black spruce in Yukon,” describes Faucher.  EF 70-200mm @ 130mm. Exposure: 0.4 sec., f/22, ISO 100. Want to get your images in the running for...

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Photo Of The Day By Bob Larson

Photo by Bob Larson Today’s Photo of the Day is “Intimidation” by Bob Larson. Location: Prescott, Arizona. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and...

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Fall For The Wild

Fall ushers in new frontiers for wildlife photography. The shortening of the days profoundly affects both plants and animals, and there’s a sense of quickening to everything, an urgency in the air that’s contagious. Fall wildlife photography provides perhaps the best opportunity to show the connection between animals and their habitats in colorful, vivid ways. A great gray owl hunts in shade against...

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Photo Of The Day By Jeff Harshaw

Photo By Jeff Harshaw Today’s Photo of the Day is “Singing In The Rain” by Jeff Harshaw. Location: Colorado. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and...

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Fall Foliage Photo Tips

Autumn color is right around the corner. Given the latitude and/or height above sea level at which you dwell, it’s time to dust off your photo gear, jump in the car and enrich your foliage portfolio. Oceans of varying hues of green will soon give way to blazing warm-colored leaves and golden grasses. The green that dominated summer will pass its monochromatic baton to autumn’s blaze. For image makers...

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Photo Of The Day By Rom Savage

Photo By Rom Savage Today’s Photo of the Day is “Pines” by Rom Savage. Location: Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and...

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Photo Of The Day By Kevin King

Photo By Kevin King Today’s Photo of the Day is “After the Squall” by Kevin King. Location: Yukon, Northwestern Canada. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and...

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Photo Of The Day By Rick Dunnahoo

Photo By Rick Dunnahoo Today’s Photo of the Day is “Lost Lake Cloudy Dawn” by Rick Dunnahoo. Location: Crested Butte, Colorado. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook,...

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Summer Sunrises And Sunsets Assignment Winner James Day

Congratulations to James Day for winning the recent Summer Sunrises & Sunsets Assignment with the image, “Agathla Peak.” This image was taken near Monument Valley, Arizona. See more of Day’s photography at www.jdaypix.com. View the winning image and a selection of submissions below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots! The post Summer...

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Photo Of The Day By Derek Peckenpaugh

Photo By Derek Peckenpaugh Today’s Photo of the Day is “Cherohala Skyway” by Derek Peckenpaugh. Location: Tennessee. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and...

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The Best Camera Backpack For Nature Photography

Considering the time and expense outdoor photographers invest in building a system of cameras, lenses and accessories, how that equipment is carried in the field shouldn’t be an afterthought. A photo backpack needs to be comfortable all day, provide durable protection and allow instant access to the gear you need so you can respond quickly to the scene. The new K&F CONCEPT Alpha Backpack 25L is...

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Photo of the Day By Holly Jansen

Photo By Holly Jansen Today’s Photo of the Day is “Twin Lakes Sunset” by Holly Jansen. Location: Mammoth Lakes, California. “Twin Lakes in the Mammoth Lakes area of the Eastern Sierra is beautiful and pristine, especially early morning and late evening,” explains Jansen. “We visit this area frequently, but this time there were only a few clouds in the sky except for this one evening.” Want to get...

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Photo Of The Day By Bill Sisson

Photo By Bill Sisson Today’s Photo of the Day is “Secret Beach” by Bill Sisson. Location: Oregon. “Secret Beach in Oregon is not secret, but it’s not easy to find,” explains Sisson. “A short, steep hike down to this beach brings you to one of the prettiest places on the Oregon coast. I have been here at various times of day and night, trying to photograph the scene with different light and compositions....

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Nikon Introduces NIKKOR Z 17-28mm F/2.8

NIKKOR Z 17-28mm f/2.8 Nikon today announced a new full-frame wide zoom for its Z mirrorless system, the NIKKOR Z 17-28mm F/2.8. The new lens will be available in October 2022 with a list price of $1,199. The price is one of the key specifications of this lens. Nikon already offers a constant ƒ/2.8 wide zoom, the highly regarded NIKKOR Z 14-24mm F/2.8 S, but as a premium S line lens, it retails...

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Exploring Fall Color

This pond didn’t look like much from the road where I saw it, but I figured it was worth exploring a bit more up close. As it turned out, with a little help from my circular polarizer to control how the reflection appeared in the water, I was able to get several images from this little pond that have ended up in calendars and have been very successful prints. While every season has something unique...

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