by Gregory Wagner | Jul 30, 2017 | Flavor of Southwest Florida, Let’s Get Away, Potpourri, Something Old, Sports, Travel Photography
From the website vocabulary.com, the word “potpourri” is “a noun which can refer to a mixture or collection of seemingly unrelated items, an unusual assortment. You may own a potpourri of books — from classic literature to trashy novels and from Shakespeare’s...
by Gregory Wagner | Jun 30, 2017 | Flavor of Southwest Florida, Sports, Texture & Shape, Travel Photography
As I look back on June 2017 on its final day I realized what a wide selection of photographs I had the opportunity to take. The work I did for Perfect Game, the Sunshine State Games and Cape Coral Lifestyle magazine, plus my self-assignments, I kept pretty busy all...
by Gregory Wagner | May 31, 2017 | Let’s Get Away, Travel Photography
Laying the Groundwork Probably about four years ago at the Roy Hobbs World Series my friend Ken extended an invitation. He suggested that I pack up my camera equipment, hop on a plane, fly to Oslo, and spend some time in Norway as guests of Ken and his wife...
by Gregory Wagner | Apr 27, 2017 | About Wagner Photography, Call of the Wild, Flavor of Southwest Florida, Photographic Mosaics, Travel Photography
Back in February I posted a blog to introduce “Wall Puzzles” which, at the time, was just a working title for a unique, creative, distinctive and downright cool concept of dissecting a large photograph into smaller (and usually standard-sized) pieces and then...
by Gregory Wagner | Mar 31, 2017 | Call of the Wild, Let’s Get Away, Travel Photography
Whirlwind trip to Chicago The last time I got together with my 3 best high school friends, Jack, John and John, was back in 2010 when I was passing through the Chicago area at the end of a summer road trip. Jack and his wife have a condo just a bit northwest of the...
by Gregory Wagner | Feb 28, 2017 | Radical Wall Decor
Soft disclaimer: This blog entry will be mostly photos and not a lot of words. True story: About 3 years ago, on a beautiful Sunday morning, while standing in right field, in roughly the 4th or 5th inning of our Over-55-League baseball game, a brand new artistic idea...
by Gregory Wagner | Feb 6, 2017 | About Wagner Photography, Let’s Get Away, Travel Photography
LAYING THE GROUNDWORK I almost went to Iceland in 2012. Almost. I was planning to go with an attorney/photographer friend who had already been there twice but just as we were about to schedule the trip my friend suddenly got tied up with lawyer stuff and that was the...
by Gregory Wagner | Jan 3, 2017 | Photography Advice
Why Have a Backup Camera? It’s always good to have one or more backup cameras in the event the #1 camera bites the dust. It is my policy to never, ever go to shoot either a paying job or to work on travel, landscape, wildlife, or whatever without a reliable backup to...
by Gregory Wagner | Dec 13, 2016 | About Wagner Photography
Quite often a website biography for an artist, a musician, an entertainer or a photographer begins the same way: everyone gets his or her start at a tender young age (usually a low single-digit number) when the first signs of talent or interest begin to show. What a...
by Gregory Wagner | Dec 6, 2016 | Let’s Get Away, Something Old
The new website launched about 3 weeks ago just as the Roy Hobbs World Series was winding down. The Hobbs World Series is a huge baseball tournament that takes place in Fort Myers, and it’s been around since 1989. I am fortunate enough to have been the official...
