Close to Home
Note (November 2022): this post was in my draft folder for years! It’s from 2015, and I “found” it while repairing broken links in my long-neglected blog. For me, at least, it was nice to read my old thoughts… So here it is! On a Thursday a few weeks ago, the weather forecast was for […]
More Small Spring Colors
So many beautiful spring flowers in our yard! Elizabeth is a wonderful gardener and nurturer of beauty! Previously I posted some images of flowers from our yard. Here are a few more. Above are the tiny blossoms of a Jacob’s ladder — so named because of the ladder-like pattern of its leaves, which you don’t […]
Small Spring Colors
Seeing flowers in our yard in the spring is wonderful treat! Most don’t last long, which motivates me to enjoy — and photograph! — their ephemeral beauty. Above are wild geraniums. Below is a may apple blossom. And these tiny flowers are spring beauties (with blossoms only about 1/2 inch across) and mazus — with […]
Iguazu
Iguazu Falls was just one of the many beautiful places we visited on our almost-three-week trip to South America. (A day-by-day account of our full trip is here, on my other website, visiblewind.com.) A wonderful quote regarding Iguazu is from Eleanor Roosevelt, who reportedly exclaimed “Poor Niagra”! It is spectacular, indeed. And huge! The above image […]
Scotland, Color
This is a follow up to my post yesterday that highlighted a few monochrome images from my trip to Scotland this past April. This time, though, it’s a few color images I hadn’t processed previously. The image above is a 180-second exposure of Neist Point on the Isle of Skye. This view is to the […]
Scotland, Monochrome
My computer has been “out of service” for a while, but it’s (finally) back — and therefore I’m back too! Time to post some more images from my wonderful photo workshop in Scotland this past March with Colin Homes (one of my favorite photographers!). In this post, I’m highlighting some of my monochrome images. (More […]
Potomac, Rocks
I had a “Friday off,” and decided to get up (somewhat) early to visit the Great Falls area of the Potomac River. I live in Virgina, in the Washington D.C. suburbs, and have often made the trip to Great Falls National Park, which is on the Virginia side of the Potomac. But this Friday I […]
Scotland Photography with Colin Homes
I had an absolutely wonderful trip to Scotland at the end of March. I took lots of photos, and am (finally!) posting a few of them here. More to come as I work through them. The trip was a workshop with one of my absolute favorite photographers, Colin Homes, of Edinburgh. (He has another Website here.) And it […]
Potomac Fog
Several weeks ago I headed off on an early morning to Great Falls National Park, Virginia. A foggy morning on the Potomac River! The photo above is a long exposure image of the weir not too far upstream of the falls. This 4-minute exposure was taken with my Lee Big Stopper neutral density filter, which […]
Lichen on Rocks
Here’s another image from Garrapata State Park, California, which I’m particularly pleased with. While exploring the park, I spotted these lichen-covered rocks, and was sure right away that I’d find some sort of composition to work with. And indeed I did! My sense is that the image is a bit “different,” which is something I […]
Blue and Brown
And another image from my trip earlier this week to the California coastline. As with this image from the same trip, it’s from Garrapata State Park — one of my favorite places! I had taken images of these sea stacks on previous trips (here’s one that I like) — they’re particularly dramatic when hit by big […]
Peaceful Sunset
Another image from my trip earlier this week to the California coastline. This is sunset at a beach in Garrapata State Park, which is between Monterey (to the north) and Big Sur (to the south). The park is one of my absolute favorite spots to explore and photograph. I’ve been there several times over the last […]
Bixby Bridge at Night
Earlier this week I had a wonderful two days exploring and taking photos of one of my absolute favorite spots: the California coastline, from Monterey south into Big Sur. It’s a spectacular coastline, and a wonderful place to spend time. I took this photo of the often-photographed Bixby Bridge in Big Sur, California. Yes, it’s been […]
Spring Green
Springtime is a treat! And “spring green” is a wonderful, fresh set of colors. I’ve been enjoying photographing the blossoming flowers in our yard. The azaleas are beautiful — a treat to photograph. I was, however, particularly pleased to see this single wild geranium blossom amidst a “field” of spring greens. And I was even […]
Azalea in the Sun
We have some beautiful azaleas in our yard; taking some photos of their vibrant colors is springtime treat! The blossoms on this particular azalea are on the small side. Not quite as showy as some, but wow, do I love their pink color. This particular image has just a hint of blue sky behind the […]
Iris
More processing of older images into black & white with my new(ish) software, Nik’s Silver Efex Pro 2. This image is of an iris in our yard, from 2009. Irises are my favorite flower — perhaps because they were my grandfather’s favorite as well, and with my fond memories of his beloved garden. But also […]
The Drop
This photo is from a wonderful hike we took in Acadia National Park along the “Gorge Trail,” following Kebo Brook, which flows north in a valley between Cadillac and Dorr Mountains. It’s a spectacular trail — in an intimate way — with numerous small and beautiful cascades. The reddish granite rocks — Cadillac Mountain Granite — are […]
A local treasure
I live a few hours from Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, which I have visited many times over the years. I recently discovered this falls in the park – Rose River Falls – which is now one of my local favorites. This photo is from late June of this year. I particularly like the stillness of […]
Brúarárfoss
I went on an amazing photo workshop in Iceland last month, led by two great photographers and teachers, Richard Bernabe and Joe Rossbach. The full workshop group had a fantastic time, and each of us now has a great set of new friends. This waterfall, Brúarárfoss (foss = falls), which Richard had scoped out last year, […]
First post
My new photography website is up and running! Yay! It features galleries of some of my recent photos. With more photos to come. For my first post, rather than focusing on my most recent images, I thought I’d step back in time and show one of my early digital SLR photos, from the spring of 2006. […]