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July 2012
Commentary #54: Game Changers: The LumoPro lp160 and the Paul C. Buff Einstein e640
- by Craig Wassel

April 2012
Commentary #53: Battery Drain, Batterings, and What is Bad for Photography
- by Craig Wassel

September 2011
Commentary #52: "Be Prepared to do Something . . . "
- by Craig Wassel

August 2011
Commentary #51: "You GOT One"
- by Craig Wassel

July 2011
Commentary #50: A Thousand Missed Photography Lessons, and Lasting Value
- by Craig Wassel

April 2011
Commentary #49: Photography Advice - Be Careful Who You Listen To
- by Craig Wassel

March 2011
Commentary #48: THE Most Important Lesson_in Photography
- by Craig Wassel

January 2011
Commentary #47: Increasing Dynamic Range - With Just ONE Exposure
- by Craig Wassel

December 2010
Commentary #46: An Auld Lang Syne for Adobe Flash Player
- by Craig Wassel

November 2010
Commentary #45: Strobe Light vs. Natural Light for Portrait Work
- by Craig Wassel

October 2010
Commentary #44: Is Infrared Photography Just a Gimmick and a Crutch?
- by Craig Wassel

September 2010
Commentary #43: Dreaming of Infrared? - I Highly Recommend Lifepixel for Your Conversion
- by Craig Wassel

June 2010
Commentary #42: Getting Dealt a Bad Card - It Could Happen To You
- by Craig Wassel

May 2010
Commentary #41: Photography as a Second Income - It is a "Risky Business"
- by Craig Wassel

April 2010
Commentary #40: Twenty Years of Photoshop, and Years of Saving Time
- by Craig Wassel

March 2010
Commentary #39: Selective Noise Reduction Using Adobe Photoshop
- by Craig Wassel

January 2010
Commentary #38: Print Early and Often
- by Craig Wassel

December 2009
Commentary #37: Repost from December 2008 ~ Photos in the Attic, and a Thank You to My Clients
- by Craig Wassel

October 2009
Commentary #36: Diamond Cloth, Triplets, and the Birthday Cake
- by Craig Wassel

September 2009
Commentary #35: Annie and the Newbies
- by Craig Wassel

August 2009
Commentary #34: Demonizing and De-Demonizing Windows, and Keeping it Running Well for Photography
- by Craig Wassel

July 2009
Commentary #33: Calumet, Adorama, and Adorama Inventory -
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
- by Craig Wassel

June 2009
Commentary #32: Your Equipment Matters, and it Matters A LOT
- by Craig Wassel

May 2009
Commentary #31:  Doing Your Own Website - What Is It Worth, and Is It Worth It?
- by Craig Wassel

April 2009
Commentary #30: Digital's Decline and Demise?    Part II - Your Medium Does Not Matter
- by Craig Wassel

March 2009
Commentary #29: Digital's Decline and Demise?    Part I - Future Shock
- by Craig Wassel

February 2009
Commentary #28: If You Communicate (Well), They Will Come
- by Craig Wassel

January 2009
Commentary #27: Am I Better Than I Was One Year Ago?
- by Craig Wassel

December 2008
Commentary #26: Photos in the Attic
- by Craig Wassel

November 2008
Commentary #25: The Gift of Vision
- by Craig Wassel

October 2008
Commentary #24: Helen and Adorama - Doing the Right Things
- by Craig Wassel

September 2008
Commentary #23: Getting to Know "Joe" Photographer - Part II: Pros and Professionalism
- by Craig Wassel

August 2008
Commentary #22: Getting to Know "Joe" Photographer - Part I: Portfolios and Prose
- by Craig Wassel

July 2008
Commentary #21: Letting Time Paint Color: Photoshop and the Multi-temporal Technique
- by Craig Wassel

June 2008
Commentary #20: There is No Such Thing as a Free Equipment Review
- by Craig Wassel

May 2008
Commentary #19: The Debate Over "Why Your Camera Does Not Matter"
- by Craig Wassel

April 2008
Commentary #18: Light, Camera, Photoshop Action!!
- by Craig Wassel

March 2008
Commentary #17: Looking Back, Looking Forward, and Spring Cleaning
- by Craig Wassel

February 2008
Special Commentary, #16: The NIU Shooting - Heartbreaking, Pure and Simple
- by Craig Wassel

February 2008
Commentary #15: Tempted by the Fruit of Another New Camera Body
- by Craig Wassel

January 2008
Commentary #14: (Not So) Easy Come, Easy Go
- by Craig Wassel

Christmas 2007
Commentary #13: Shooting RAW, and the First Thing I Opened this Christmas: Pandora's "E-mail" Box
- by Craig Wassel

December 2007
Commentary #12: Resolutions, and Backing Up Into the New Year
- by Craig Wassel

Thanksgiving 2007
Commentary #11: Photography and the Season of Giving Thanks
- by Craig Wassel

November 2007
Commentary #10: The LensBaby 3G - Because Life is too Short to Spend Reading MTF Charts
- by Craig Wassel

October 2007
Commentary #9: Just Like CrackerJacks - What's in the Bottom of that New Camera's Box
- by Craig Wassel

September 2007
Commentary #8: My Summer Reading List - Learning from the Best and Brightest
- by Craig Wassel

August 2007
Commentary #7: Learning to Appreciate the "Point and Shoot" Photographer
- by Craig Wassel

July 2007
Commentary #6: Websites, Workflows, and Waffling - Is Windows or Mac OS Better?
- by Craig Wassel

June 2007
Commentary #5: Am I Really Mooning You? - Answering Questions About the Moons in My Photographs
- by Craig Wassel

May 2007
Commentary #4: Only the Journey Matters - The Kind of Photographers I Like Meeting
- by Craig Wassel

April 2007
Commentary #3: About the "Beautitudes" gallery and Street Photography of the Less Fortunate - Is It Exploitive?
- by Craig Wassel

March 2007
Commentary #2: Photography Blogs - They Aren't Always About Making Great Photographs
- by Craig Wassel

November 2006
Commentary #1: Photography's Digital Battleground
- by Craig Wassel






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