Photo Anthems

Me, standing in Lake Nicaragua with one of the two volcano mountains of Ometepe Island in the background I'm all about trying new things. So when Fuji came out with the XE-2, I was hooked and bought one a week after the thing was released. I bought...

Art Model, Emma Copyright 2013 Terrell Neasley Ha! I like that title. Thought of it myself. Yep. Just came to me. So I'm back. The name of the game now is CATCH-UP! I clocked about 3 months on the road this time, yet I'm still amazed at the...

Panda Portrait,  © 2012 Terrell Neasley I've spent the last 4 days trying to write about some challenges I have here in Nicaragua with my final days looming near. I've rewritten it each time and conclude that I just need to blog about...

Cultural Night in Masaya, Nicaragua San Juan del Sur has definitely been an adventure. Spanish classes are still kicking my butt, but I am learning, albeit slowly. I love my host family with Doña Lucia and her large family. They help me learn...

© 2014 Terrell Neasley For the first time since I started this blog in 2007, I went a whole month without a post. I would say that from mid-November til the end of the year was a blur. And by blur, I mean, as in the interior of a tornado. I simply...

Art Model, Panda and Kiddo © 2013 Terrell Neasley  “ Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop."  – Ansel Adams In the last post, I talked about SIX things you can do RIGHT NOW to greatly improve your photography...

Art Model, Enyo ©2011 Terrell Neasley "Day by day in every way I’m getting better and better." - Emile Coue Art Model, Enyo ©2011 Terrell Neasley Lots of people who own cameras bigger than a point 'n shoot, talk about wanting to be better shooters...

Art Model, Leslie ©2013 Terrell Neasley “I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!”  ― Mark Twain I already teach, mentor, and coach photography and sometimes its cool to let people into...

“Procrastination is like masturbation. At first it feels good, but in the end you’re only screwing yourself.” ~ Unknown I know many of us declared at the beginning of this year that you were going to finally get to that "Dream" project that you've...

Art Model, Kristi C. ©2013 Terrell Neasley "A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera." ~ Dorothea Lange Yesterday, I was at B&C Camera listening to my buddy Rob, talk to a customer about cameras when presented with an inquiry...

Gorgeous Art Model, Jessica ©2013 Terrell Neasley In my last post, I discussed some concepts in the evolution of photography and the transitions to come. This is another aspect of that change. Anyone who's paid attention to camera gear has, by now...

Art Model, Leslie ©2013 Terrell Neasley "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." ~ W. Edwards Deming One of the benefits of subscribing to Rangefinder Magazine is the end of year report they do on the State of the Industry,...