DANGER! Sue Thompson, a perennial at the Shutter Photo @ Flickr Group, has a new camera. And it hasn’t hurt her at all. We once again spotlight one of her macro photographs for this week’s inspiration. We also learn an important lesson about how equipment affects our work.

For this week’s inspiration, I let each of our readers the opportunity to crawl inside my mind and find out samples of what inspires me and the fundamental philosophies that serve as a basis for what I consider inspiration.

Have a desire to shoot some of the spring and summer flowers? This week, we bring you a series of short tips to help you when capturing shots of your favorite flowers out in the landscape.

Spring has sprung, and flowers are everywhere. But how does one make their flower photos stand out from the rest? Take a page from Judy Knesel’s book and explore the flora with some fun techniques. Knesel’s photo, “Flowers on the Porch” is this week’s inspirational photo.

I was out experimenting with my Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D lens. Shot at 1/50 with an aperture of f/18 at 50mm focal length. Continue reading to see the full-sized image.

Sometimes, simplicity is the solution.

Year end is always a great time to look back on your works and pick out what you feel are your best works.  I am going to share with you what I feel my best works are, and why.  I wish I could claim the idea as my own, but I have to credit Jim [...]

This is a Hibiscus flower that I shot at Longwood Gardens during the Winter Wonderland exhibit. The plants in the background, the ice if you will, is a plant known as a Dusty Miller. It is naturally this color. I wasn’t permitted to carry around a tripod, so I shot this with [...]