by Gary Fong
Photographer: Ken Wong, Vacation Spot Adventurer

It’s a jungle out there.  Shooting wildlife in the Alaskan outback, unlike wildlife in the San Diego Zoo, takes a well-defined mindset. One needs to be cunning in the wild, as opposed to carrying enough pocket change to fend off the meter maids during weekday parking hours.

By Steve Terlizzi
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One of the major tasks for a photographer is to take what is a 2D mechanism, a photograph, and provide a third dimension to it, depth.  In fact, the task is also complicated because the photographer needs to do it in the context of a fourth dimension, time.  However, we won't discuss that within this article.

by Gary Fong
Photographer: Andy Shafer

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There’s never enough talk about light…cause photography is….hum…all about light. From a computer’s perspective…there’s 256 shades of daylight, 256 degrees of contrast, and 256 levels something else…which is the long way of saying there’s an infinite combinations of light that can touch the subjects.  The trick is…to make a small subset of those combinations work for the viewer.