by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#41 – Sara Rebecca Sometimes, I’ve found, that amateur photographers are too quick to declare that their photographs have “technical problems”. Sometimes out of focus mush can turn things into a gauzy, hazy memory dream. Maybe there were some raindrops on the...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#42 – Crystal Boates-FreemanIt’s Crystal’s great-grandmother’s house. She happened to join a camera club trip on a dark and cold outing and later found out that she had a personal connection to this piece of architecture. The exposure was long. How long?...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#43 – Robert RearOur dear friend Louise Bradt has taken Robert under her wing and is sharing her vast photographic experience and knowledge with him. But this picture makes it pretty clear that Robert is bringing a lot to the party, too. First of all the...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#44 – Sam Maloney Sam has wisely used the long telephoto lens he loves to put that background out of focus. In other words, he stood back from the action but he didn’t have to. It was a creative decision. But the really neat thing that he did was to...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
← previous next → #45 -Tammy ThomasLucky is the photographer that gets herself into this situation. A bunch of factors have to align—temperature, humidity, dew point, pressure, wind or lack of it. I spent my entire childhood on the frozen tundra and I’ve...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#46 – Liz Sharp Griffin I remember driving from Fargo, North Dakota to Columbia, Missouri all by myself one year heading off to college. I had tears running down my face as I saw just how beautiful— for the first time, really— the flat, desolate prairie was. It...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post
#47 – Rachel Temple MeredithForget about the color and texture here. I just want to talk about the composition. Look how far north those eyes are. How about the placement of the tongue? It’s on the left half of the photograph. There’s only one curly, furry ear...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post
#48 -Kim Beyer RayburnThere are a lot of ways to photograph a football game and some of the best look something like this. I would tell you to keep your eyes open for the little moments, but this is one of the big moments. These are the real moments that parents and...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post
#49 – Kathy Murray When this photo was first posted my son, Teddy, said it should be Photo of the Year. We could do worse. Great fun! Leave feedback on this photo below then click "next" below to continue the photo countdown... p.s. If the photographs are the...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post
#50 – Debra Flynn It’s as though the lines and layers and color palette grab the eyes and take them for a dance around the valley floor with all the ups and downs and tos and fros of ballet meets square dance. So many of the best landscape shots do just that;...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#51 – Teddy Kelsh This is not a typo. Photograph #51 of the Top 50 list was taken by my son, Teddy Kelsh. I really like the photograph and wanted to give him a pat on the back, but I also didn’t want to use up a valuable spot in the list that I could give...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post
Click to view photos This annual celebration of the best of the best of our Fan Photos of the Day is one of my favorite professional moments. I’m well aware of the power of a pat on the back and I’ve come to realize that I love giving them almost as much as I...
by NIck Kelsh | Feb 16, 2016 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Blog, Gear and Accessories, Snow, Subscriber Photo Tips
I want to make an addition to my master list of things to carry in your camera bag—or at least in the trunk of your car. First a couple of anecdotes. A couple of winters ago I went for a walk in the woods alone after a fresh snowfall. It was a bit icy and everything...
