You might be interested in the North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s Watchable Wildlife Photo Contest, which is now accepting entries. The contest has categories for nongame and game species, as well as plants/insects ...

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I’ve gone on photo treks with a lot of different partners. The latest one is a real jerk...

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Nature Photography - I spotted another photo for this assignment when I was inside the house yesterday, watching the rain fall. The sidewalk out in front had a large puddle, reflecting the overhead trees, and the raindrops danced across the surface, creating rings that expanded and disappeared and showed up again with the next raindrop, like a carefully choreographed dance...

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It was during the Year of the Gimp that I received the Great Autumn Revelation...

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As a former newspaper reporter/photographer, I’m used to going where I want to for a story. I’ve come to expect that if I look official enough, or if my motives are sincere enough, my camera and notebook will be the open-sesame to just about any situation or scene that appeals to me—whether I’m on the job or out on my own...

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There was my dog Shiloh, tethered just outside the back door, barking and jumping toward me with eager excitement. And there I stood in the yard, one arm brought up close to my face, the hand at the end of my other arm holding a camera that was focused within inches of my sleeve...

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Anybody reading this is probably a photographer. And photographers—intrepid northwoods photographers—never complain about the snow. They don’t even spell it as a four-letter word. They spell it o-p-p-o-r-t-u-n-i-t-y...

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I can be seduced. I often am. It happened again just last month. I was on my way back to the paper from an interview in Silver Bay, and there in front of me was a big, beautiful, bold...

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I’ve never checked, but I’m sure by now someone has put out one of those “…for Dummies” books about photography...

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I have a friend who once told me he was going out to look for fall photos. He got in his car, drove up and down the roads, came home, and told me he didn’t find anything.

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Mother Nature came calling today, but judging from her behavior, she wasn’t in a very feminine mood...

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Splayed against those rocks like castaways clinging to solid land, they were nevertheless sucked back into the lake depths, the action creating a void below, exposing lake bottom that glistened with foam. But only for a moment before the next assault was launched...

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When I felt the need for a photo fix a week or so ago, I grabbed my camera, jumped in the van, and headed aimlessly down the North Shore toward Duluth. I took the Scenic Route, driving slowly on the surprisingly deserted roadway, panning the terrain for something worth stopping for...

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