In the 2 weeks since my last post, I’ve been traveling on vacation – first to the Gulf coast of Florida, where hubby and I visited my Dad for a few days, and then to southern California, where we visited hubby’s brother and sister-in-law. I don’t usually consider myself a beach person, but this trip [...]

It’s time to tell the sad story of how my 1-month-old camera ended up in the shop last week. It was a painful experience, and it’s somewhat embarrassing as well, so I’m hoping that by sharing the story, at least one newbie will avoid the same mistakes I made. Last Saturday morning I got up [...]

(Note: the pictures in this blog post have nothing to do with the text. A family member once told me that “people” don’t actually read the text, they just look at the pictures… so I’m merely including these photos as eye candy.) I’ve been ordering things online since around 1992, when I made my first [...]

There were lots of new product announcements this past week. The big one, of course, was the iPad 3; and in software, Adobe Lightroom 4 was released. But the announcement that was most important to me was for the new Canon 5D Mark III DSLR. Last week, having met all my photography goals for the [...]

The conversation at the gallery went something like this: Gallery Representative: I’m sorry, you can’t take pictures of the artwork in here. Me: Oh, OK, I’ll just zoom in so you can only see the frames on the other pictures. Rep: No, really. There’s a sign right here – no pictures without the artist’s permission. [...]

Flickr begs me to provide a name for each of the photos that I upload. It threatens to give them names like “IMG_1234″ if I don’t come up with something. But sometimes clever or fitting names just aren’t forthcoming, so I either end up with monikers that are more like labels than names (example: “Chipmunk”), [...]

To follow up on last week’s post about all the times I’ve chosen the clock tower as a subject, I’m going to post a few more pictures so that you get a little better idea of what the tower is all about. (People who know me know that sometimes I can be a little obsessive.   [...]

I’m sure that most photographers have a subject that they come back to, time and time again. Certainly, for many years, my kids were the subject of almost all my pictures (at the time, it was point-and-shoot with film.) Since they’re not around much any more, I’ve been forced to branch out – which isn’t [...]

Back in May, I discovered the magic of silhouettes while returning on multiple occasions to a spot at the Lab of Ornithology where I could watch great blue herons changing nest duties. I learned that all I needed to do was to shoot towards a light source with the subject blocking out the light. Not [...]

This morning I had the great opportunity to participate in a local photo walk, one of more than 1100 photo walks taking place this weekend as part of Scott Kelby’s Fourth Annual Worldwide Photo Walk. Our small but determined group, led by local pro Dave Burbank, joined up at Fire Station #9 at 10 this [...]