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January 17, 2020 - Hello friends, Here are some top tips for photography in low-light! Analyse your images: There are many factors that c...

November 05, 2019 - Hey folks, Mark your calendars for next Monday, November 11 (Veteran's Day). Beginning at 7:34 AM, Mercury, our closest...

September 22, 2019 - The 2019 Hurricane Season, which ends on November 30, has become the third successive tropical season to turn destructiv...

July 11, 2019 - Mark your calendars folks! July 20, 2019 @ 10:56 pm marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing -- when man...

May 10, 2019 - This is national hurricane week and I just attended the 2019 East Coast Hurricane Awareness tour that took place at Quon...

April 16, 2019 - Hey friends! Here are some important links to some great information that you can use as a quick reference, especially...

March 21, 2019 - Hello! Well, spring is here finally. Goodbye to winter. Along with the blooming of flowers, spring is a season which bri...

February 18, 2019 - Spring 2019 is only four weeks away and this means warmer temperatures and more diversity in the weather! I really look...

December 21, 2018 - Here we are in the major holiday season and rounding the corner to head into the New Year 2019! I, for one, am looking...

November 13, 2018 - Hello folks, Well, you all know I am obsessed, passionate even fanatical about "extreme weather". Sure, I love weather...

October 29, 2018 - Ok, southern New Englander's....the second "unprecendented" severe weather outbreak with severe rotating thunderstorms,...

October 26, 2018 - Hello friends, Is it my imagination or does there seem to be an uptick in extreme weather events here in southern New E...

September 21, 2018 - Today marks the 80th anniversary of the 1938 "Long Island Express" New England hurricane! This was New England's "Katri...

September 08, 2018 - Hello folks, Once again for the 2018 tropical Atlantic hurricane season, confusion, misinformation, hype, drama, etc.,...

August 15, 2018 - We are now entering the most active part of the annual hurricane season. There is usually an uptick in tropical cyclone...

May 26, 2018 - Here is an article posted on the accuweather site which gives some head's up information about the upcoming 2018 Hurrica...

May 18, 2018 - With the recent severe weather outbreak in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvannia, Massachusetts, Connecticut...

May 14, 2018 - This is my season! Once our variable spring weather begins to improve and warm up, the atmosphere starts to perk. As for...

April 06, 2018 - 2018 Hurricane Season expected to be more active than usual, CSU forecasters say. Here is the link to the video: 2018...

March 30, 2018 - I love to photograph and thereby capture lightning but this can be a dangerous hobby and/or profession as an extreme wea...

March 16, 2018 - #1 Start off at the shallow end of the pool. Don't overwhelm yourself! Learn by the "baby steps" approach and then take...

March 12, 2018 - Some people just don't learn when it comes to nature's fury! How many times are we going to see on the news people who c...

March 02, 2018 - Ok folks, we are now heading into spring and what is our severe weather season. This means that severe weather such as s...

January 12, 2018 - Hello friends! I would like to talk about my passion of teaching photography! It is no surprise that my three obsessio...

December 29, 2017 - I have become a big fan of "The Tornado Hunters" - Greg Johnson, Chris Chittick, and Ricky Forbes! This is a Canadian t...

December 22, 2017 - As of this writing blog, 2018 is only 9 days away! For me, this opens up a new journey into what nature will truly brin...

September 29, 2017 - ronaldzinconephotography has a new look! Check out his new online portfolio at ronaldzinconephotography.com Ronald is a...

September 22, 2017 - No doubt this year's hurricane season has been deadly and destructive but in no way, in my opinion, is it connected to c...

September 10, 2017 - As we are currently seeing - the 2017 Hurricane Season has turned out to be a "deadly" season and it's not over yet. Wha...

September 01, 2017 - As we have already seen these past couple of weeks, the 2017 Hurricane Season has now entered the record books with Hurr...

April 05, 2017 - To all of you who are native Rhode Islanders, and from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, the general public and those...

August 17, 2015 - To learn more about how I capture spectacular daytime and nighttime lightning read my new Blog post at: http://www.rona...

March 25, 2015 - Hello students of photography! After a brutal onslaught of winter weather, let's get ourselves excited about the upcomi...

March 16, 2015 - Astrophotography aka "night-sky photography" in its most basic form starts out with your everyday 35mm DSLR camera, a tr...

March 11, 2015 - From an article "Off-camera flash photography" pg. 60, EOS Magazine, January-March 2015 "Taking a Speedlite off-camer...

February 09, 2015 - Canon has announced the new EOS 5DS and 5DS R Digital SLR cameras. With a 50.6-megapixel CMOS sensor, the 5DS and 5DS R...

November 24, 2014 - Willdlife photography is not my "cup of tea" so to speak but here are 10 valuable tips to better wildlife photography fo...

November 18, 2014 - The following blog entry is quoted from George Lepp's "Tech Tips" section of the November 2014 issue: Question: With...

October 30, 2014 - This recent article, "the art and craft of photography" is from a photography magazine: "The first question to addres...

October 07, 2014 - Cropping is the same as getting closer. Cropping, in this sense, is about cropping an image when processing, but it also...

September 23, 2014 - You can always crop for a better photo. Technically, this isn't a digital myth. Photographers used to do it with film, a...

September 08, 2014 - All noise is bad. Because cameras today are doing such a good job in controlling noise in digital photos, a rather arbit...

September 01, 2014 - Sharpness is mainly about the lens and camera. The article "Sharpness: The Deadly Dozen," shows how much sharpness is af...

August 25, 2014 - RAW isn't processed. This is one of those myths that has persisted forever. All cameras do some processing of the image...

August 18, 2014 - What the camera captures is "real. The camera sees the world very differently than we do. Our eyes have far greater capa...

August 05, 2014 - "Digital photography became popular at the same time that internet access and usage exploded in growth. The technology b...

July 28, 2014 - Hey folks, Welcome to Part 3 of my 4-part series on how to capture the Super Moon or full moon! In my first part, I ex...

July 16, 2014 - Hey folks, Did you miss the Super Moon last weekend or were you lucky enough to see it? How about capturing images of i...

June 23, 2014 - Digital cameras use sophisticated exposure systems with a choice of metering patterns to suit different lighting situati...

June 07, 2014 - Hello students! You know, we all have friends in our lives. Some are more closer to us then others. There are friends a...

June 03, 2014 - Hey folks, was out the last two nights doing astrophotography from one of Rhode Island's darkest locations -- the Frost...

April 30, 2014 - Hello students of photography! Here are just a few listings of how my services can benefit you: Classroom instructio...