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10 Creative Techniques for Making Your Best Autumn Images

by kbpadmn | Creativity, Digital Photography, How To, Inspiration, Landscape Photography, Uncategorized, Vermont, Workshops

As a Vermont based photographer it probably won’t come as a surprise to find out that my absolute favorite time of year for outdoor photography is autumn.  While New England has a reputation for some of the country’s most varied and vivid fall color, and rightly so,...

5 Tips for Improving Your Winter Photography

by kbpadmn | Creativity, Digital Photography, How To, Landscape Photography, Uncategorized, Workshops

Winter is arguably one of the prettiest times to be an outdoor photographer.  Winter white can transform an otherwise lifeless brown landscape into a magical wonderland. However, winter is also one of the most challenging and uncomfortable times to be outdoors...

5 Tips for Better Stream & Waterfall Photographs

by kbpadmn | Creativity, Digital Photography, How To, Landscape Photography, Vermont

I’m naturally drawn to water as a photographic subject.  In fact, if forced to choose only one subject to shoot for the remainder of my days I’d be hard pressed to find something I’d rather shoot.  Perhaps it’s the fly fisherman in me or perhaps the peace and calm...

Exacerbated Pixels: 5 Tips for Avoiding Them

by kbpadmn | Creativity, Digital Photography, How To, Landscape Photography, Vermont

I once listened to an interview with a film critic, or some such industry expert that described the newest spate of action films as a collection of “Exacerbated Pixels,” or EP for short.  Exacerbated Pixels, as the interviewee explained describes the over the top...

5 Secrets to Killer Sunstars

by kbpadmn | Creativity, Deserts, Digital Photography, How To, Inspiration, Landscape Photography, Uncategorized

 Okay, I’ll admit it; I’m a sucker for elegantly crisp sunstars.  I may go so far as to say that I’m addicted to them; not in a shady, I’ll break into your house for prescription meds kind of way, but more like if it’s readily available I’m happy to imbibe sort of...

Photographic Order of Operations

by kbpadmn | Creativity, Digital Photography, How To, Iceland, Landscape Photography

As a photographer and educator I work with a lot of folks that are fairly new to photography and/or getting a lot more serious about their shooting.  Inevitably I’ll find myself in a field situation, usually while shooting sunrise or sunset and the light is going off,...

Stay Thirsty My Friends

by kbpadmn | Creativity, Digital Photography, How To, Inspiration, Landscape Photography, Uncategorized, Vermont

We’ve all heard this advice before in some form or another.  “There’s always something to shoot…” “Never give up…”, “Stay late…”  But every once in a while I get reminded of just how important it is to keep these axioms in the forefront of your mind.  And if you’re...

Want Your Images to Look Different? (part 2)

by kbpadmn | Acadia National Park, Creativity, Digital Photography, How To, Landscape Photography

In part one of this series I offered 5 strategies for jumpstarting your creative juices and beginning the journey toward creating unique or different images.  Part one can be found here and is probably worth reading in conjunction with this post. 6) Incorporate...
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Kurt Budliger is a professional photographer and educator based in Vermont. His photographs and articles have appeared in numerous books, calendars and magazines and are routinely used by conservation organizations working to protect wild lands. His clients have included Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography, National Geographic Adventure, Outside Magazine, Vermont Life Magazine, Eastern Fly Fishing, Patagonia, 1% for the Planet, Trout Unlimited, Trust for Public Land, The Nature Conservancy, and many more.

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