Category: photo tips
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Two Years Ago this Week : Framing Nature
Today’s Wordless Wednesday photo was taken in downtown Asheville, N.C. When I was growing up my home away from home was Asheville, N.C. My mom’s family lived in Asheville so we would make at least one trip down to Western North Carolina every summer. Do flowers look better in color or black and white? Check…
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Two Years Ago in ISBAA : Brightening Your Monday Morning
Happy Monday! I shot these colorful flower photos a few years ago during a trip to a garden in Pennsylvania. For me, photographing flowers is akin to watching fireworks. The colors seem to jump out at your and radiate from the center of the plant. (please see below for two additional images)
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Duck Tour in Suburbia
These days it is not unusual in parts of the D.C. Area to see foxes, deer or hawks. Even coyotes appear from time to time. Over the weekend though we were treated to a parade of sorts as a momma duck lead 7 ducklings throughout the neighborhood skillfully navigating busy streets and weaving through backyards and…
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Walking Dogs Along Swallow Falls
Earlier this month I took a hike along the river at Swallow Falls State Park in Western Maryland. (Please see more text and second photo below)
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Winter Storm Pax Part II : Baby, Its Cold Out Here!
Later in the day a flock of goldfinches visits the feeders. It was still snowing! (please see more text and second photo below)
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Seattle Windows
This photo was taken from a hotel window in Seattle of a building across the street from where I was staying.
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Framing Nature
Today’s Wordless Wednesday photo was taken in downtown Asheville, N.C. When I was growing up my home away from home was Asheville, N.C. My mom’s family lived in Asheville so we would make at least one trip down to Western North Carolina every summer. Do flowers look better in color or black and white? Check…
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Black and White Sunrise Photos
My favorite beginning is the start of a day, sunrise. It is the time of day where you are going to capture the best light. There is nothing like the solitude experienced when photographing a sunrise on a beach or atop a mountain where its just you and nature, (o.k. and sometimes if you are…
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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)
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Looking Back on the Holidays… One Last Time
New Year’s week is an exciting time, full of new beginnings and exciting possibilities. The weekend after New Year’s day is customarily the time when the festive lights and decorations of the holiday season are taken down. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had holiday lights all year? (see more photos and text below)
I See Beauty All Around 