For under $2000, the serious amateur to semi-professional digital nature and wildlife photographer can get a great DSLR Nikon D80 and a range of lenses from super wide angle to super telephoto or 10mm to 300mm (15mm to 450mm 35mm film equivalent or from about 4 times wider to 9 times closer than the normal […]

Sigma’s 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM lens allows enjoyment of super wide-angle photography and it is a very powerful tool for indoor shooting, landscape, and nature photography with APS-C size image sensors of digital SLR cameras. The wide angle of view ranges between 102.4-degrees at 10mm and 63.8-degrees at 20mm, which offers the photographer greater […]

Lightning is one of my favorite subjects to photograph in nature. It’s both challenging and rewarding to capture a detailed bolt without overexposing the image.
For those that would like to try to photograph lightning, first make sure you are in a safe place. The safest place is outside of the storm itself, […]

Computers and hard drives crash from time to time. Viruses destroy files, and poorly written software sometimes has bugs that cause files to be erased or modified. Accidents happen that end up deleting or writing over the top of other files. A drink spilled in the right place could cause a short […]

It seems odd that writing a good description of your pictures would get more people to view them, but it’s true. The first reason is because The Lens Flare uses your description as part of its process to determine which categories the picture shows up in.  The code behind TLF looks at all of the […]

Bubbalinn has been a nature photographer on The Lens Flare since February of 2005, and has many wonderful pictures of birds and lightning as well as other outdoors pictures of deserts, mountains, and other scenery.
Some of my favorite images of Alan’s are:

Written by: Azkul

By using a good descriptive title, your chances of people visiting your pictures increases dramatically.  You’ll want to keep the title short, perhaps 5 words or less.
Think of a keyword or keyword phrase that you would type into a search box to see a picture just like yours.  Naming your picture “yellow lily” instead of […]

For the nature photographer, the environment is the canvas from which the image is created and the weather plays a big part of this. Nature images taken in the middle of mist and fog add a lot of drama, mystery, and interest to a photograph.
For some examples on TLF, please visit the links below:
Photographs of […]

One of the nature photographers on The Lens Flare that has inspired me over the years is Karen Moen. Many of her images are full of color and drama such as the butterflies in her insect gallery and the sunsets in her cloudscape gallery. Probably my favorite among her pictures are her landscape photographs.

A new contest is now open for wildlife photography pictures. Zoo animals and Photoshop composites are not allowed; however, any animal in the wild is allowed including insects in your garden, birds in your trees, or more exotic animals in the back country.
To submit your photograph, please visit the contests page, and to view […]