{"id":28377,"date":"2021-02-17T12:28:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=28377"},"modified":"2024-10-15T00:23:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T05:23:53","slug":"channeling-my-inner-john-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=28377","title":{"rendered":"Channeling My Inner John Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Northern Lights over Lake Michigan, August 15, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\r\n

I was leading a photography workshop in Northern Michigan and we were out on a night sky field trip at Lake Michigan. We started seeing some flickering in the northern sky which developed into this display of the Northern Lights. It was a great night at the lakeshore.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Nature Photography Books<\/p><\/div>\r\n

In a way I had come full circle. The person who started me on the path from snap shooter to serious photographer<\/a> recommended magazines and books I should read. One of the first was John Shaw’s book The Nature Photographer’s Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques.<\/em><\/strong> It transformed my nature photography. It is, in my opinion (along with the revisions), the first and most important book you should read on nature photography. When I started teaching nature photography at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in 1995, I recommended it to all of my students, along with John Shaw’s Closeups in Nature<\/em><\/strong> which is my favorite guide to closeup photography in the field. I still highly recommend both books, except I recommend the current update of his original book, John Shaw’s Guide to Digital Nature Photography<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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John Shaw, Northern Lights<\/p><\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So John Shaw has had quite an influence on my photography. When I look at this beautiful Northern Lights image by John Shaw, and then at my image at Lake Michigan, I like to think I am channeling my inner John Shaw.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Links<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Channeling My Inner . . .<\/a> the link to this series of articles<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Nature Photography Books: The Three Essentials<\/a>. If you only read three nature photography books, put these on your “must read” list.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It All Started with a Stolen Camera<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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