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A Year of Blogging

On January 4th, our blog was one year old. When Steven and I started, we thought we’d share some things about photography with you. But,...

Tradition!

When I was a child, November meant starting early looking through the Sears Roebuck wish book catalog and planning my list for Santa. It...

Happy Halloween!

2020 has been scary enough so we will just wish you treats with no tricks.

Glorious Fall Color

As a photographer, autumn is the Cinderella at the ball moment. To me, it’s nature at her most beautiful. Steven and I love shooting...

What Can I Photograph in the Fall?

Not to sound like Captain Obvious, but just shoot fall. Autumn is my favorite time of the year. I love how the hot sticky days of summer...

Still Life - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

I have stood, mesmerized, before paintings that so realistically depicted vases of flowers or simple bowls of fruit that I found it hard...

Feeding The Spirit

There are times, mainly during the stress of this pandemic and the changes we have had to enact, that I feel quite empty without even...

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants part 4

The Impressionists were a part of a new art movement originating in Paris mainly during the late 1800s…think Monet, Renoir, Degas and in...

When is a Photo No Longer a Photo?

This question has been a hot topic of conversation between Steven and me. When does a photo no longer qualify as a photograph? Usually,...

What’s Available to Shoot in Summer?

Steven and I were just talking, with respect to photography, what season was our favorite. Fall and spring were front runners with winter...

Tell Me a Story

Really, who doesn’t love a good story? Cave drawings or pictographs were a form of early man’s visual storytelling. Painters and...

An Unexpected Surprise

A few weeks ago, Steven and I were on the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Little Switzerland, where we were hoping to capture a pretty sunrise....

Friendship and Photography

Photography is one of those unique hobbies, or vocations, that is excellent to do on your own, with a companion, or with a group of...

Standing on the Shoulders of Hudson River School

The Hudson River School, a 19th century art movement, was comprised of a group of talented landscape artists who were all about nature...

Standing on Johannes Vermeer's Shoulders

Johannes Vermeer, my favorite painter of the Dutch Golden Age, lived during the 1600s. He was a master at portraying interior scenes...

Standing On The Shoulders of Giants

For many years, while I was teaching in North Carolina, we would take our fifth graders to Washington, DC. to learn about ou nation's...

Photography and the Zen of Staying at Home

I am not making light of the current position we find ourselves in these days caused by the Coronavirus. My heart goes out to everyone...

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