View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s Note: With the focus on snowflakes in this issue, I decided to go back Memory Lane and pick up the first time we wrote about snowflake...
The Photo Focus
Focus Illustrated, January 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s Note: After Priscilla Wenger’s lesson came out in March 2011, Ezra Morley used her lesson as a springboard. This is a reprint of his story from...
Favorite Focus, January 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive American Robin. Photo © Jessica Tschetter.
Frosty Bubbles
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Cross-polarization was used to creatively illuminate this frosty bubble. Photo © Don Komarechka. The clear globe with frost patterns caught my eye. I had...
Favorite Focus, December 2024
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Chasing Auroras
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Aurora and Milky Way above Route 574, Ohio. Photo © Steven Russell Smith. I could feel the rhythm of my heart intensify to allegro as I fired a test shot...
Shooting Star Trails to Capture Auroras
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Here in Virginia, my exposure to northern lights has been rare—very few and far between. The first time we saw them, there was a huge red glow in the...
Favorite Focus, October 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive A few days ago I saw a clearwing hummingbird moth on our butterfly bush. I took a bunch of photos. This is my favorite one. Photo © Joshua Lloyd. As I...
Fall Foliage Photos Straight Ahead
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Fall foliage in Hightown, VA. Photo © Shaphan Shank. Brilliant autumn foliage is straight ahead, at least we hope so. Finding a gorgeous opportunity like...
Favorite Focus, September 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Fall foliage at Logan Canyon, Utah. Photo © Loren Auker. Red maple leaves. Photo © Laura Leid. Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Photo © Joshua...
Components of a Successful Photo
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive What does it take for a photograph to be successful? That is a question that doesn’t have any one right answer. If you were able to capture a poor picture...
Favorite Focus, August 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Daisies at sunset. Josiah Andring. Northern Mockingbird. Photo © Thomas Zimmerman. This mockingbird is a gorgeous example of separation lighting in a...
Solar Photography
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive The aurora superstorm in May has captured my attention—not just the beauty of the aurora, but the beauty of the sun from which the storm originated. There...
Hindsight 20/20: Eclipse Photography
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive April 8, 2024, has come and gone. Many of us had our calendars flagged on that date with “The eclipse” penciled in. Looking back, our vision is 20/20, as...
Favorite Focus, June 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Iceberg Creek flowing out of Iceberg Lake in Glacier National Park. Photo © Aaron Stalter. Photo © Riley Kropf. Photo © Ben Fehr. Barred Owl. Photo ©...