“Want to earn money on the photo – go to shoot at night,” – said my photo teacher. Since it is difficult to argue with him. Indeed, the types of city nightlife, with their colored lights, unusual colors, highlights, bright reflections and a very special flavor and mood find a buyer more quickly than pictures [...]

Clouds reside in the Near Sky, the lowest 50,000 ft. of the atmosphere. That is in contrast to the distant stars in the Far Sky. Photographing merely involves seeing through the lens of a camera. Seeing has many different dimensions. There is generalized seeing with very little focus of attention to that being seen. In [...]

Washed out, amorphous skies are weak points of many landscape photographs. Even a solid blue sky can look uninteresting, and usually will not deserve much space in the frame. But well-defined, interesting cloud formations can turn an otherwise ordinary picture into something special. At their best, clouds can be the main point of the shot. [...]