Tiger Lily, originally uploaded by Miracle Man.

Its a Bird! Its a Plane! No. Its a Bird! Actually six birds. The American Wildlife Refuge, a non-profit wild bird-of-prey rescue organization in Raleigh, North Carolina had a variety of their Educational Birds on display at Wild Birds Unlimited in Cary on Saturday, December 5th. Volunteer handlers answered questions for several hours as they [...]

As many people may have noticed on my various social network sites (Flickr, Facebook, etc.) that I recently photographed a model named Laura. Laura is not just any model that many of us here in the Raleigh-Durham area, but a celebrity model. Laura was the runner-up on America’s Next Top Model Cycle 13. Several people [...]

This cycle of America’s Next Top Model had a surprise for me, Laura Kirkpatrick, my great niece was in the final 14 and has been battling with other models over the past few weeks fighting to win the reality show for high fashion models. She has had a great run and tonight (Wednesday, 11/18 8pm [...]

Purple Haze, originally uploaded by Miracle Man. Okay I photograph a lot of models. But every once in a while things fall together and magic happens. The model contacted me about a vampire shoot that I ended up not shooting, but we still wanted to shoot. We set a date and knew everything would be [...]

When you plan to have an workshop on outdoor portraits you hope Mother Nature cooperates.  Well it wasn’t to be in Asheville Saturday as heavy grey clouds and light showers filled the skies during the session. With a backup plan in hand, the workshop started out indoors at the clubhouse of Biltmore Lakes.  With the [...]

I’ve lived in North Carolina for 10 years and I have yet to make a trip to the mountains in the fall. Visions of picturesque mountains vibrant with color and crystal blue skies danced in my mind as to what I would see. Getting there, at least for me is hard. Its hockey season, which [...]

more about photography. You have that new camera you just picked up and you’ve tried to read the manual and it kinda makes sense, but you want to go learn and shoot some stuff. Yet you spend another night with the manual taking pictures of your furniture… There could be a good way to solve [...]

Yesterday I went on a small tirade about photo pricing and not being offered nearly enough from the photographer’s perspective. The photo market is definitely in the buyer’s favor and there are not many signs that it will ever turn around. There was an interesting comment left asking why portrait print prices were so high. [...]

Here is the scenario: You are on vacation and take a cool photo of a tourist attraction and post it to your Flickr stream to share with your friends. You recognize that someone someday might be interested in it, so you make sure your photos are listed as “All Rights Reserved” to keep honest people [...]