Mark Smith Photography

This is a camera combo to be reckoned with. Sony means business and the hole that once existed in Sony’s lens lineup has now been filled with an incredible offering that is going to make other camera manufacturers a little nervous. A new contender has […]

Thanks to my friends at B&H, I have had the opportunity to try, shoot and fully evaluate many of the major mirrorless cameras on the market. At the time of this writing (May 2019), the Sony a9 mirrorless camera was the fastest and most unique […]

The adventure starts simple enough, on the highway, the flat lands of Florida but all of that changes when we make it to marina. Looks like a good day for a swim. We climb upon our boat and the first thing I notice is a […]

Early morning hours, the best time for photography and that means traveling down some old country roads shrouded in a thick blanket of fog. My mind races back to a scene from the horror movie, An American Werewolf in London and I remember the warning […]

Sony recently introduced a new firmware update for the already impressive A9 mirrorless camera. This firmware update introduced a new feature called “Real Time Tracking.” This new feature is supposed to lock focus on a target and never lose it. How does Sony’s Real Time […]

And so it was told that on this day the planets would align, the stars would twinkle and osprey would fall from the sky. What I really meant to say was, conditions for amazing osprey photography were good. I had the sun and wind at […]

I recently posted a poll on my Youtube channel asking all of you a very serious question. I witnessed an osprey pull something amazing from the ocean and I thought I would ask everyone what they thought it was. A lot of people participated in […]

The Great Blue Heron – One of the largest wading birds on the planet that is often noted for its elegant plumage and who can deny it’s amazing feathers. This bird looks like it spent a few hours in the makeup chair on the set […]

Come along with me for day two of my Costa Rica photo adventure. Watch the video below or keep reading! It’s 5 o’clock in the morning and the sun still isn’t up but there are creatures stirring in the trees above. A troop of howler monkeys […]

I have been photographing the amazing Osprey for a very long time and I will admit, I have had some pretty good luck with these birds but there is one shot that has managed to elude me until now.  Quite a few variables had to […]