Tag: Fairfax County Virginia
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Memorial Day Picnic for Baby Bluebirds
This spring has been an incredible time for bluebirds in Fairfax County. After photographing and videotaping a family of bluebirds for the last several weeks, earlier this weekend the feeding of the fledglings on our back deck commenced. Today, Memorial Day, the fledglings’ feeding frenzy went full tilt. Thanks to some patience and some nice…
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Morning Mouthful for visiting Bluebirds
This morning after the rain stopped, our visiting bluebirds continued their work gathering food for their home, bringing back bugs, many in one helping. Yesterday, the beautiful birds chowed on our mealworm feeder, in great abundance, shown below. If. you would like to see some more bluebirds, I hope you can visit my video post…
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Weekly Photo Challenge : Cover Art- A Bug’s Life
Here is another shot for the this week’s challenge : Cover Art. As I always say, if you don’t see anything worth photographing , you are not looking closely enough. This bug was munching on a flower at Green Spring Gardens Park in Fairfax County, Va. Please see second photo below.
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Weekly Photo Challenge : Cover Art- Inside A Flower
Photography is my first love but if I had do it all over again I think I might have considered pursuing a career in graphic arts. There is so much creativity involved in merging type and photos for things such as book covers.
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Sunflowers in Suburbia
Fifty-five years ago the Washington D.C. suburb of Fairfax County as well as neighboring Prince William County were mostly farmland. According to Wikipedia, even as recently as the 1950s, Tysons Corner Area of Fairax was “a quiet rural intersection flanked by a few small stores.” Nowadays in Northern Virginia, where cows are outnumbered exponentially by…
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An Hour of Art in the Park at Green Spring Gardens
Green Spring Gardens Park has always been one of my favorite local getaways. In addition to its beautiful gardens there is always a surprise in store at Green Springs as was the case during my most recent visit. (please see more text and gallery below)
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Henry Clematis at Green Spring Gardens
Henry Clematis is shown at Green Spring Gardens in Fairfax County, Va., by Rob Paine. For two more views of this beautiful flower, please see below.
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Green Spring in Black and White
Processing flower photos in black and white can be a fun diversion from the following the everyday color treatment approach. (please see more text below)
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Weekly Photo Challenge : Abandoned
I photographed this abandoned U.S. Postal Service Priority Mail Service box in a deserted cell block at the closed Lorton Reformatory in Fairfax County Va. (please see more text and a second photo below)
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My First Calendar Cover (Vienna Va.)
Earlier this week I received a copy of the 2014 Town of Vienna calendar. Not something I usually get as I do not live in Vienna, but this year a photo I shot was on the cover. It was my first calendar cover. (please see more text and photos of Vienna) Interested in living “small?”…
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