Dirty Shirt Photography

So why "Dirty Shirt Photography" I hear you ask? Well the answer stems from a class I took in Joshua Tree National Park this weekend to learn about Macro Photography. I probably spend 75% of my time, photographing wild flowers, laying on my stomach straight on the ground. It wasn't the most comfortable way to take a photograph but we managed to get some pretty amazing photographs and videos too. Kurt, a friend and fellow photographer coined the phrase of Dirty Shirt Photography while we were crawling around looking for good photographic subjects. It was a fun way to spend a Saturday and I will share some of the photographs here with you. Hopefully I also learned some new things that will improve my photography as well.

This is a photograph of a small (3" long) lizard that we spotted while taking some closeups of a cactus flower. This little guy posed long enough for me to get so good HDR shots of him and yet I was probably less than 6" away from him. I hope you enjoy it.