2020 Fears Tears and Beers mountain bike enduro race photos are posted! Keep reading if you want to learn more about the FTB enduro race. If you just want to see the photos, scroll down to browse. Nothing can stop the Fears Tears and Beers enduro! It’s the original and longest-running mountain bike enduro race […]
If you raced the 2019 Fears Tears and Beers enduro this month, your race photos are ready! Go to the bottom of this page and click on the 2019 Fears Tears & Beers Photo Gallery and Print Store link to go straight to the photos. Once you’re on the race gallery page, you can browse […]
My love for high-quality pocket cameras started back in the mid-nineties, before the digital era. I had a Yashica T4 Super loaded with Fujichrome that I took everywhere. The camera world has changed a lot since then. Camera phones are so good now that point-and-shoot cameras have become a very hard sell. There are still […]
For the past few years I’ve made a “best photos of” article at the beginning of the New Year. There are as many ways to determine your “best” photos as there are photographers and I’ve opted to keep it simple and somewhat automated. Since photography is a form of communication, I’ve left the choosing up […]
Congratulations! You’ve found my 2018 mirrorless camera buying guide – a list of my current favorite mirrorless cameras. If you’re shopping for a DSLR or mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera, this article will tell you everything you need to know. Mirrorless cameras have replaced digital SLRs as the best interchangeable lens camera option for most photographers. […]
I update this point-and-shoot camera buying guide a couple of times a year and these are my favorite point-and-shoot cameras for winter 2017/18. Below, you’ll find ten pocket cameras I think offer the best features and performance available, right now. These are the ten point-and-shoots I’d spend my own money on. I’ve done my best […]
Last week my dad and I made a short trip south to the San Rafael Swell for a couple of days of gravel bike adventuring. Photo-Dad, a.k.a. Howard, a.k.a. Mr. Shafer, is shopping for a new road bike and my friends at Fezzari were kind enough to loan us a couple of their new Shafer […]
We’re well into 2017 so I guess it’s about time I show off my most successful mountain bike, ski, travel and adventure photos from last year. I don’t know if these are actually my best photos of 2016. How do you determine “best,” anyway? To help me narrow my picks down, I started with my […]
In a surprise announcement at CES in Las Vegas today, Nikon revealed they are getting into the POV camera business. Their first offering is the Nikon KeyMission 360, a rugged action camera with two lenses that captures 360-degree 4k UHD video. Professional outdoor adventure photographer Corey Rich showed the audience a short video (below) he […]
I’m very pleased to share the most recent issue of Dirt Rag magazine (number 187 – it’s a killer issue), with a Photo-John cover shot and Photo-John images illustrating a feature story. Dirt Rag asked if I could shoot Salt Lake City professional downhill mountain biker Amanda Batty for their “Personality Issue” and of course […]