I See Beauty All Around, by Rob Paine

Category: nature photography

  • Wordless Wednesday : Log Cabin Country Church, Garrett County, Md.

  • Wordless Wednesday : Painted Lily

  • New Year’s Day Hawk

    I have written before about the great photo opportunities that begin the minute you walk out your back door. I was greeted with another example on New Year’s Day as this red-shouldered hawk visited the back yard. (please see second image below)

  • Weekly Photo Challenge : Beginning

    For the past few weeks I have been highlighting posts from 2013 that either were well viewed or in a couple of cases, my personal favorites. Today’s post which I also think is a perfect fit for the WordPress’ Weekly Challenge this week : Beginning is the last in that series, (I promise!) This post originally…

  • Happy New Year 2014

    I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year! I hope you have a prosperous 2014, full of hope, Joy, peace, understanding and of course,  outstanding photo opportunities.

  • Deep Creek Lake on Ice: Part II Frozen Falls

    Yesterday after seeing  a  note in the  The Deep Creek Times,  about an AP story on  ice fishing at Deep Creek Lake which  ran on washingtonpost.com where you can read the story here. I posted some photos I have shot in the  last few years of the fun things you can do at Deep Creek Lake when the…

  • Deep Creek Lake on Ice

    I saw a note in The Deep Creek Times, (The best source around for Deep Creek Lake news and goings on) that The Associated Press moved a story earlier this week on ice fishing at Deep Creek Lake which ran on several online news sites including washingtonpost.com where you can read the story here. The…

  • 2013 Year in Review : There’s a Frog in That Flower!

    Before the new year starts, I thought it would be fun to look back on the most viewed and most “liked” posts on this blog as well as some of my favorite posts such as the one below. This post actually ran a couple of years ago long before the blog went daily so not…

  • 2013 Year in Review : Chincoteague, Va.

    Before the new year starts, I thought it would be fun to look back on the most viewed and most “liked” posts on this blog. For some of these Year in Review stories, I may add other photos or additional notes that have similar subject matter but did not run in the particular post the…

  • Cool Thought on a Warm Day (Winter Edition)

    I never dreamed I could run a “Cool Thought on a Warm Day” post two days before Christmas, but here we are experiencing record breaking temperatures on the East Coast. ( please see below for second photo and additional text) If you would like to see a more normal Deep Creek Lake winter scene, please…