Dan’s News

New Image Chosen For Apple’s Global iPhone Campaign

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I’m pleased to announce today that Apple’s latest global “Shot On iPhone” ad campaign will feature one of my recent images taken with my iPhone 6+. Their latest campaign aims to feature the work of their customers, both amateur and professional photographers, and as a longtime Apple user, I couldn’t be more excited to be chosen as part of this project! The campaign will feature the images around the world on billboards, transit ads, magazine ads and in a gallery on Apple.com More About The Image The photo that was chosen by Apple is called “Ice Bubble Reflections” and was …

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New Beginner Tutorials Online

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Over on Shutter Muse I have posted a set of three articles that will kick off a new Photography 101 section, highlighting the important basics and distilling them down into simple bite-sized chunks.

Guest Post on B&H Photo’s Blog

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Hey guys, I’ve got a guest post over on the B&H Photo blog today which goes into detail on how I created this image of the skier. It was a cool setup using Pocketwizards, hypersync and Einstein flash. Check it out HERE!

Wildlife Photography Interview

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My local new outlet in British Columbia recently published an article about me and my most recent wildlife photography in the newspaper. That article is now available online HERE. It’s a great little piece and I hope you check it out 🙂

WordPress For Video Professionals

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I’ve just published my monthly article on ProVideo Coalition and this time it’s an in-depth look at using WordPress to create a portfolio website. In this mammoth article I cover the following: –>> Introduction – Why WordPress? –>> How to start a WordPress website in 5 minutes –>> 11 top WordPress themes for video professionals –>> Best WordPress video gallery plugins If you create a lot of video content and your website is a bit long in the tooth, or worse, you don’t even have a website, check it out HERE!

New Posts On Shutter Muse

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Along with the redesign to this website came a slight shift in how and where I publish some of my writing. My feature length reviews and articles can now be found on my other site, Shutter Muse, and this month I posted a ton of new content over there. Here’s a few of my favourite posts from the last month on Shutter Muse – click the images to get to the articles. Enjoy!

Red Bull Divide & Conquer 2014

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This past weekend I was in Vancouver, BC to shoot for Red Bull and their Content Pool during their Adventure Race, Divide & Conquer. The race saw teams of three run up a mountain, bike back down it again and then kayak through North Vancouver and out in to the Pacific Ocean. Weather conditions were nearly perfect and after a 10am start I spend the next few hours chasing the competitors around to the finish line. My main duties were to capture the start, get a few shots of the runners reaching the top of Grouse Mountain and the run/bike …

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Elegant Themes – Divi 2.0 – WordPress Theme Follow Up

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Divi Discounts Important Message – Please Read! Hello Elegant Themes Blog Readers Many of you reading this will be coming to it from my guest post over on the Elegant Themes blog where I talked about why I chose to use the Divi theme to build my website. Well, eagle-eyed people might spot immediately that I am no longer using Divi, and in fact, Im now using Elegant Themes’ other Divi-based theme called EXTRA. Here’s why… Divi was, actually still is, revolutionary for people like me. Someone who cases A LOT about the visuals of their site, but doesn’t have …

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New Free eBook Available – Canon 200-400 Extended Review

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Since my review of the stellar Canon 200-400 has been very popular I’ve launched a slightly extended version with extra images as a free eBook. The book is available in either PDF format or iBook through my website Shutter Muse HERE. I much prefer browsing images on a tablet device, and I love the way this review looks on iPads and Android tablets.