I have largely abandoned stopping the lens down to cover the depth of field for the several reasons listed below: Stopping the lens down to f/16 and f/22 produces an overall less sharp image due to the optical effects of diffraction. Stopping the lens down usually doesn’t cover the depth of field all that well anyway. Only where the lens is focused is it truly sharp. All other distances are subject to “acceptable focus,” and that isn’t exactly sharp focus. Stopping down the

Snow at Bryce Canyon While driving to Phoenix from Idaho, I heard the weather forecast for Bryce Canyon while driving a little south of Salt Lake City, Utah. Snow had fallen at Bryce Canyon! That is on my bucket list, so I detoured a little and drove to Bryce City where I stayed at the Bryce Canyon Resort Hotel. Over the next week, I got periods of snow and a huge variety of weather. I went from white-out snow conditions to mostly clear skies. My photo opportunities at Br

White Pocket is a unique landscape found southeast of Kanab, Utah, but on the Arizona side of the border. Both North Coyote buttes that has the famous Wave and South Coyote buttes are in the area, too. Get directions to White Pocket from the BLM office in Kanab, UT where the drawing for the Wave is held each morning. I have driven my 4WD Sierra Pickup in there several times with no trouble, but the sandy lanes to White Pocket are challenging. Any mistake and you are stuck,

While leading a photo tour of Yellowstone National Park by snowcoach, we parked at the yurts near Old Faithful to enjoy our wonderful packed lunch. While everyone was getting out of the snowcoach, I mentioned I briefly saw a pine marten here last week. It was living under the boarded walkway up to the yurts. Soon someone excitedly said, "there is a nose peering out of that hole under the walkway!" Sure enough, the pine marten was home and anxious to come out. I gathered

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