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12 Tips & Tricks for Shooting Great Textures (And a Free Texture Pack!)

2011-02-09T18:21:00.001-05:00

Always Use Auto Focus

One of the most important things to consider is the focus. Make sure that all of your images are in perfect focus. No matter how good you are with manual focus, it’s probably a good idea to employ the use of your camera’s auto focus. Even a small focus shift can make the image useless.Read the entire article...12 Tips & Tricks for Shooting Great Textures

Tips For Photographing Your Cat

2011-02-09T11:55:00.000-05:00

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cat is proud of his or her friendly feline. Cats make perfect subjects in which to photograph. You can catch your cat and a variety of interesting and fun poses when you know how to take pictures of your cat. If you are interested in photographing your cat, here are some tips to help you get the best shots.

Catch your Cat Napping
Nothing looks quite as relaxing as a cat taking a nap. Cats do sleep a lot, so if you take a picture of your cat napping, you have plenty of opportunity. The best time to take a picture of your cat is to catch it when it is asleep. You can take close-ups of your cat either as it sleeps, or gently wake your cat up for a relaxed look. For a nice shot of your cat, try gently rubbing your cat’s belly right when you want to snap a picture. This will encourage your cat to roll over on its back.

Natural Sunlight
When you think of a sleeping cat, where do most cats enjoy sleeping? You can usually find a cat napping in the sun. If you have a window that gets full or filtered sunlight during the day, then try to open the curtains or blinds to encourage cap napping. As soon as you see your cat sit in the sun, try to take a few pictures. When the sunlight is good, try a few shots without using your flash. This will give your picture a nice natural glowing effect. In addition, natural light often works best anyway because if you use a bright flash, your cat will usually close his or her eyes or the eyes could end up looking red.

Forget Posing and Planning
Cats are much for posing. You cannot really ask that a cat stay and sit. When you take pictures of your cat, you should always have your camera on hand for candid shots. Look at your cat during the day and determine your cat’s schedule and favorite places. Work around your cat and you will get better pictures. Try to be spontaneous, and above all stay patient. It may take several tries to get a couple of great shots, but posing your cat rarely works.

I have tried to get my three cats to pose and let me take a picture, but even though they sleep together, play together, they cannot stand or in this sit next to each without someone starting something. If I had three people to help and set back out of the picture, it might work. As you can see, cat’s needs to do what cats do and take your pictures that way.

Get Help
Another good tip for taking pictures of your cat is to get help. You can get great pictures of playful cats and kittens by having someone help you wiggle a string, the throw a ball or call the cat’s name. It is very difficult to try to play with your cat and take pictures at the same time. Your pictures will turn out much better if you get someone to help you. In addition, if you are trying to get a picture of your cat looking directly at your camera, have someone stand above you can call the cat's name, or make a noise that will prompt the cat to look directly above your head.

If you are a patient and willing, you can get some excellent shots of your cat. Cats are so fun to take pictures of because you never know what they will do. Keep your camera handy and ready to go as soon as your cat springs into action. Cat’s normal activity seems to make us smile and laugh, their antics always may wonderful pictures. Pictures of kittens playing from birth on also make for some great pictures. If you have the camera, you will never miss the perfect picture.

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Stock Photography - What Kind of Pictures Should I Shoot?

2011-01-17T17:51:00.001-05:00

Image by robertpaulyoung via Flickr

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Gary_Denali]Gary Denali

One of the big decisions when shooting stock photography is how to decide what to take pictures of. What types of pictures are buyers looking for? Where do I start?

One place to start is with magazines. Magazines are all designed to appeal to a certain demographic. Start with your own magazine subscriptions, which most likely reflect your tastes, interests, and hobbies. Take a look at the images. Many of them are stock images used to support articles and advertisements. Each one is targeted to appeal to people just like you. This is a great place to begin, by creating some of those types of images.

Look for images that tell a story, or highlight an object. Pictures of people engaged in doing something, like walking, talking on a phone, eating, to name a few. Simple objects like wine corks, cell phones, computers, clocks, etc. are also good shots to consider. If you like to travel, shoot postcard images of exotic locations.

Get in your car, take a ride, and look for billboards, posters, bus wraps, and taxi cab ads. The pictures used in these advertisements are typical of what buyers are looking for in a stock photograph.

Do you get junk mail? Before you throw it into the recycle bin, look through the store flyers, coupons, and sale circulars for ideas. Odds are, most of the photos in these ads are stock images. One day, you might see one of yours in a junk mail ad.

The internet is full of stock images. You would be hard pressed to find any quality website that doesn't have a stock image used somewhere in the design.

Ideas for stock photos are everywhere. All you have to do is look around. Once you have an idea of what types of pictures to shoot, get creative. Find your own angle, color, and theme, to create your own unique style of shooting stock photography.

Gary Denali is an amateur photographer who uses his Canon digital camera to make money online. Want to learn more about how you can earn cash with your digital camera? Click here: http://stockphotoprofits.com

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Step By Step: Taking Beautiful High Key Photos of Flowers

2011-01-14T11:34:00.001-05:00

Step By Step: Taking Beautiful High Key Photos of Flowers: "

Flowers are a beautiful and popular subject, but taking photos of them outdoors is often a frustrating process. You have to wait until the flowers are in bloom before you can even start, and then you are at the mercy of the light and weather. But there’s an easy way to take photos of flowers at any time of the year, no matter where you live – take them indoors, where you can control the light and the background. That’s how I took this high key photo of a lily, and in this tutorial I’m going to show you how I did it.

Light Tents

All you need to get started is a light tent, like the one pictured above. The semi-transparent sides diffuse the light so that you can have a softly lit subject (window light is a good light source, or you can use flash).

Light tents are inexpensive to buy and you can use them for a wide range of still life subjects, not just flowers. I got mine from the EOS magazine shop – an ideal source if you live in the UK or Europe (check your local photo suppliers if you live elsewhere).

Other Bits and Pieces

The other things I used were coloured card for the background (several colours so you can change the background colour), a plastic cup with a weight inside it, and some masking tape.

Camera Equipment

I used a Canon EF 85mm f1.8 lens fitted with a Canon 500D close-up filter to take the photos. The close-up filter got me close enough to the flowers to fill the frame and the fast maximum aperture of the lens let me hand-hold the camera at relatively low ISOs at 1/160 second.

If you don’t have a prime lens, or you want to take photos with more depth-of-field, then you can use apertures in the range of f5.6 to f11. You’ll either be working at high ISOs (think 3200 plus) or you can use a tripod so that you can use slow shutter speeds.

Alternatively, to get a brighter light source you can take the light tent outside (best when there’s no wind) or use a flash as the light source (position it outside the light tent pointing at one of the sides or from the top).

Getting Close

If you have extension tubes or a macro lens you can use them as an alternative to the close-up lens. But be aware that you will experience some light loss with these accessories which means slower shutter speeds and a darker viewfinder image (making it harder to focus).

I prefer close-up lenses for this type of work, because there is no light loss. The 500D close-up lens is a little expensive but it has two elements and the image quality is excellent – you can buy cheaper single element close-up lenses just about anywhere but don’t expect them to match the image quality that you get from double element close-up lenses, extension tubes or macro lenses.

Flowers

Flowers are quite easy to obtain, either from your own garden or from a florist. White flowers are good for high key photos, but you can use any flower that appeals to you for this technique.

Be careful if you are picking flowers in the wild that you are not inadvertently taking rare or endangered species.

Setting Up

The set up is very simple. I set the light tent up on a desk with light coming from two windows, one behind it and another to the right. I taped the flower to the plastic cup and then cut a slit in the cardboard so that I could place it behind the flower. Some more masking tape underneath held the cardboard in place.

This arrangement let take photos from several angles and still get a green background. The join in the cardboard is easy to edit out in Photoshop if it appears in the photo. I could also change the cardboard easily to make a background with a different colour.

What Is a High Key Photo?

This is a high key photo. The tones are bright, the colours are light or pastel rather than saturated, and there are very few shadows and little contrast. The lack of shadows means that there is very little modelling on the subject.

Here is the Lightroom histogram for the photo. The graph sits on the right hand side of the histogram, indicating that there are no dark areas or shadows in the image. This is normal for a high key image.

To create a high key photo, you need a very soft light that lights the subject and background equally. You can’t make a high key photo if your background is darker than the subject. The light tent creates exactly the sort of light you need.

Use high key if you want to create a light, ethereal photo. Flowers are a good subject for the high key treatment. Portraits are another.

Camera Settings

I used manual exposure as I could see that the white flower would make the camera underexpose the image. I used the camera’s histogram to check the exposure, and tweaked the settings until I got a histogram which was as far to the right hand side of the graph as possible without going over it.

This technique is called exposing to the right, and works here because the brightness range of the subject was well within the dynamic range of the camera’s sensor (note that exposing to the right only works if you shoot in RAW).

For most of the photos in the series I used a shutter speed of 1/160 second, an aperture of f1.8 (although I did play around with some wider apertures too) and set the ISO to give the correct exposure at these settings. The sun kept going behind the clouds – every time it did that the light levels dropped and I had to increase the ISO to compensate.

I used RAW so that I could fine tune the colour temperature, contrast and exposure at the post-processing stage. It also gave me leeway in case I overexposed the photo – RAW files retain highlight detail that would be lost if you used JPEG.

Manual Focus

Manual focus is the easiest way to focus on close-up subjects. I set the focus on the lens to where I wanted it (normally at or near the minimum focusing distance), then moved my body towards the flower until it came into focus.

This technique had the additional benefit of letting me concentrate on the composition – if you use autofocus you have to make sure that the active autofocus point is pointing at the relevant part of the photo, which can throw your framing out.

High ISO

Don’t be afraid of high ISOs. This is a 100 per cent enlargement of a photo from the series taken at ISO 3200. It was taken on an EOS 5D Mark II, which has a good high ISO performance, but you can see that there is virtually no noise. Use the expose to the right technique when you take high key photos and you will see a big improvement in the noise levels at high ISOs, especially if you have an older camera.

Today’s RAW processing software is also good enough to remove most chrominance noise (the unpleasant coloured specks you see in noisy photos) leaving an aesthetically pleasing, film grain-like effect. Both Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop are great at this, and so is Digital Photo Professional (Canon’s own RAW conversion software supplied with its cameras).

Lightroom Settings

These images didn’t need much tweaking in Lightroom, as most of the work was done in the lighting setup and by getting the exposure settings correct.

A slightly cool colour seemed to suit the images so I set White balance to 4850. I liked the low contrast and decided to make it even lower, which I did by setting Blacks to zero and Fill light to 11, then adjusting the Exposure to suit. It’s worth noting here that these adjustments were possible because I was shooting in RAW – they are unavailable if you use JPEG.

These settings became the starting point for each image. Lightroom lets you copy the settings you used for one photo and apply it to another (just go to Settings > Copy settings and then Settings > Paste settings when you start editing another photo). Once the basic settings had been applied it was easy to tweak each photo depending on what needed to be done.

I carried out all my editing with the Show Clipping function enabled in case I started to lose highlight detail, which is easy to do with such bright photos (go to View > Show Clipping to do this – any blown highlights will be displayed in red).

Photo Gallery

Here is a gallery of photos that I took during the session. I got a good series by varying the composition, using several different flowers, and changing the colour of the cardboard in the background.

(Via Phototuts+.)

The Importance of Good Exposure and Good Focus in Stock Photography

2011-01-10T13:54:00.000-05:00

By Gary Deetz - http://stockphotoprofits.com

A guaranteed way to get rejected from a stock photo site, is to submit photos that do not have good exposure or focus. Getting the focus right is easy. Check your shot. If it's not in focus, then reshoot.

Getting the right exposure is not as clear-cut. To an extent, exposure adjustments can be made in post- production, especially if you shot in RAW mode, and to a lesser extent in JPEG. The problem with this is that the greater the corrections needed to fix exposure in post-production, the more likely you are to increase the noise level of the photo. You may end up with a very over-processed photo. Keep in mind, that the people inspecting your image will be doing so at 100 percent, which is less forgiving of technical flaws than you may be on your own screen.

Getting a good exposure is all about capturing as much of the data as possible in a given scene. Good light metering helps, but it is still up to you, the photographer, to evaluate the exposure of each photo capture.

So, before submitting your photos to a a micro-stock site, make sure they have good exposure and good focus. If you don't, you may have wasted your time.

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Stock Photography - What Kind of Pictures Should I Shoot?

2010-12-11T16:48:00.000-05:00

Stock Photography - What Kind of Pictures Should I Shoot?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Gary_Denali]Gary Denali

One of the big decisions when shooting stock photography is how to decide what to take pictures of. What types of pictures are buyers looking for? Where do I start?

One place to start is with magazines. Magazines are all designed to appeal to a certain demographic. Start with your own magazine subscriptions, which most likely reflect your tastes, interests, and hobbies. Take a look at the images. Many of them are stock images used to support articles and advertisements. Each one is targeted to appeal to people just like you. This is a great place to begin, by creating some of those types of images.

Look for images that tell a story, or highlight an object. Pictures of people engaged in doing something, like walking, talking on a phone, eating, to name a few. Simple objects like wine corks, cell phones, computers, clocks, etc. are also good shots to consider. If you like to travel, shoot postcard images of exotic locations.

Get in your car, take a ride, and look for billboards, posters, bus wraps, and taxi cab ads. The pictures used in these advertisements are typical of what buyers are looking for in a stock photograph.

Do you get junk mail? Before you throw it into the recycle bin, look through the store flyers, coupons, and sale circulars for ideas. Odds are, most of the photos in these ads are stock images. One day, you might see one of yours in a junk mail ad.

The internet is full of stock images. You would be hard pressed to find any quality website that doesn't have a stock image used somewhere in the design.

Ideas for stock photos are everywhere. All you have to do is look around. Once you have an idea of what types of pictures to shoot, get creative. Find your own angle, color, and theme, to create your own unique style of shooting stock photography.

Gary Denali is an amateur photographer who uses his Canon digital camera to make money online. Want to learn more about how you can earn cash with your digital camera? Click here: http://stockphotoprofits.com

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Digital Photography For Creating Stock

2010-12-11T16:46:00.000-05:00

Digital Photography For Creating Stock
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Gary_Denali]Gary Denali

The whole point of stock photography for creating stock is to create images for someone else to use for their purposes. Most of us are used to shooting for our own usage so we are not thinking about what someone else may want in a photograph. When shooting for others, you need to change your usual mindset and put yourself in the shoes of the customers you are trying to please.

To do this, the first thing to know is, who your customers are. That's going to be difficult to pinpoint because stock photo customers can be anyone, from a blogger looking to enhance their blog post with a picture, to a graphic designer looking for a photo to use in a clients project, to a large advertising agency building an ad campaign.

The best approach is to pick a niche to specialize in. Review the photographs currently in your library and determine what subjects you focused on. What do you like taking pictures of the most? Do you prefer to shoot indoors, in a studio, or outdoors, in nature? Do you like shooting people, animals, trees, insects, etc? Become a photo specialist on one or two subjects.

Don't have a preference. Look through some magazines to see what's hot. Start with the ones that appeal to you the most. Many magazines use stock images. Look for photos that tell a story. Other places to look for ideas are:

Billboards
Menus
Brochures
Store Flyers
Pamphlets
Mailings
Websites

Keep a file of the images you like the most. Cut them out of the magazines and other sources you choose, and put them in a folder. Keep a notebook with notes of the images you liked best. Write down any ideas that come to mind so you can refer to them later.

Ask yourself these questions:

What types of photos do I like creating best?
What is it about these photos that interests me?
What skills and resources do I have for creating these photos?
What are the predominant colors used in the photos I have collected?
What are the predominant themes?

Doing this will help you become more attuned to how stock photos are used, and, narrow down your focus to those you are most interested in creating. This will also help you decide what gear you need to create the best stock images. Do you need a better tripod for stabilizing your camera, a macro lens for closeup shots, or a special prop to create your shooting scene.

The opportunities for creating stock photography are all around you. Start your stock collection slow, set your goals, and keep experimenting with new things. Eventually you will have a library of quality images to build a successful online business out of.

Gary Denali is an amateur photographer who uses his Canon digital camera to make money online. Want to learn more about how you can earn cash with your digital camera? Click here: http://stockphotoprofits.com

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How To Earn Cash With Stock Photographs

2010-12-11T16:42:00.000-05:00

How To Earn Cash With Stock Photographs
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Gary_Denali]Gary Denali

What Are Stock Photographs?

In the old days, the word stock referred to images that were part of a photographers collection or archive. Photographers would license these stock photos to interested parties for specific uses, for which they would be paid in return. This also gave them an additional income stream for their photographs, beyond the original assignment. Today, these images are stocked on virtual shelves on the internet for immediate downloads to interested buyers. There are millions upon millions of stock images available for downloads from a variety of websites.

Who Uses These Stock Images?

Stock images are used everyday by website builders, bloggers, in magazines & promotional flyers, and widely in advertising. It is not unusual to see the same image used in different ads. If you are a contributor, you may even see some of your own images one day.

What Makes A Stock Photo?

A stock photo is generally one that communicates a message in a simple, clear way. It can be black and white or color. Buyers looking for stock photos usually want high quality images that will reproduce well.

How Do You Make Money With Stock Photos?

With the invention of the digital camera, most of us have large collections of photos in our personal libraries. Mine are in several libraries including iPhoto, Picasa, and Flickr. Amongst the hundreds of photos that I have, there are many that would qualify as stock photos. The photos that I have identified as stock, can be uploaded to a number of different photo stock sites. Once there, they are made available for purchase, and download to an interested buyer.

Several popular photo stock sites are:

iStockPhoto.com
BigStockPhoto.com
Shutterstock.com
Fotolia.com
Dreamstime.com

Each of these stock sites offer millions of photos for download, at a price. Photographers are paid a commission on their images when they are purchased at these sites. The amount of commission paid depends on the size of the picture and the price paid. The larger the picture, the more it costs, and, the larger the commission. Commissions can be as high as 63% of the purchase price.

How Do I Get Started?

To begin with, take stock of the photos you already have in your collection. Separate the highest quality photos, and put them into a folder. Then review these photos and pick the best ones from this collection.

Sign up with a few of the micro stock sites mentioned above. It's free. Apply to be a contributor. Each site has different requirements. Some will require you to answer a few questions and upload some sample photos. This is why it is important to upload only high quality photos.
So, sit back. Wait for your approval. Start making money.

Gary Denali is an amateur photographer who uses his Canon digital camera to make money online. Want to learn more about how you can earn cash with your digital camera? Click here: http://stockphotoprofits.com

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2010-12-03T16:16:00.000-05:00

Make Money Online With Your Camera - Extra Income Selling Photos

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One of the easiest ways to make ends meet is to make money online with your camera. In 2009 more people own cameras than radios, and photography is the fastest growing hobby in the world. Using your camera as an extra income tool is one of the internet's best kept secrets! With a little bit of imagination, a steady hand, and just a hint of creativity, the average person can easily make a nice second income with his camera. The important thing is to get started, regardless of how small your start, and begin cashing in on an idea that's still in its infancy.

One of the reasons you probably aren't aware you can make money online with your camera is the professional photographers will tell you it's tricky to break into this field. They'll tell you how many years they trained and how many thousands of dollars they dropped on their cameras. Those day are gone, times are different and many part time photography hobbyists are making a very nice income submitting their digital photos online. All over the internet there are thousands of business owner who need images for their website. A writer may need a photo of a pen or maybe a laptop. A person selling dog-training supplies needs pictures of dogs. A person with a travel site needs pictures of beaches, mountains and landmarks.

In my opinion it couldn't be easier to make money online with your camera. You can snap photos from anywhere in the world! You don't need a website or any technical skills and if you already have a camera, computer and an internet connection, then you're already to start your new journey. All you have to do is take simple pictures, upload them to stock photo sites and then watch as buyers begin to purchase the rights to use your pictures! You can sell limited licenses for premium prices or sell an unlimited number of licenses and each picture can keep making money for years and years to come.

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Selling Stock Photos Online For Profit

2010-11-27T19:29:00.000-05:00

Selling Stock Photos Online For Profit
By Cate Blatt

Freelance photography is a passion for many people, but others
stay away from freelance photography because they are not sure
how to make money off of this passion. The good news for those
people who are unsure of how to make a profit off of their
photography is that you can actually make a decent living from
the stock photography business by selling stock photos online.
And all the while you will still have the freedom to work at
your convenience.

Submitting your photographs to stock photography websites is
like investing money in a bank because those images can generate
income for you throughout your lifetime. Or at least as long as
the websites are up and running. This is because once you post
your images for sale they will remain available to buyers
indefinitely.

This is called “passive income”. You do the work upfront (take
the pictures, post them) and then the revenue continues coming
in without any further effort. This is a great model to work
towards for any freelancer as you continue to get paid even when
you are no longer actively working.

The truth is that there are a lot of websites that allow
photographers to sell their images. These stock photo sites come
in a variety of sizes and have varying levels of quality images.
But mainly the sites can be broken down into micro stock
agencies and macro stock agencies.

Micro stock agencies such as iStockphoto, Dreamstime,
Shutterstock and Fotolia sell your images for a very low cost
from one dollar to a couple of hundred dollars while Macro stock
agencies such as Alamy, Corbis and Getty will not sell any image
for less than about fifty dollars.

While a fifty dollar sale might sound quite enticing,
submitting images to Corbis and Getty can be a tough task for
newcomers because their approval procedure is very tough. If you
are just starting out you would probably do better to cut your
teeth on the micro stock photo sites.

Can you make enough money from websites that sell images for
just one dollar? Yes you can make money and you may even make a
lot more than websites that will not sell images for lower than
fifty dollars. But how is this possible?

The secret lies in the number of sales micro stock agencies can
generate compared to macro stock agencies. A micro stock
photograph could be sold hundreds of times while a macro stock
agency will take a lot longer to reach even 50 sales. It’s
really just simple economics. Sometimes selling more for less is
more profitable.

Working your way into selling stock photos on a macro stock
site is still something to strive for, but do not be discouraged
that you are starting small as you may still be quite
profitable. As you learn the tricks of the trade you will become
better and better at producing quality images that sell.

Before you know it, you may even be able to call yourself a
successful freelance photographer. But first you need to get
start submitting your stock photos!

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2009-09-29T22:44:00.001-04:00

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Another good shot taken by the Wifie Pooh
Summer 2005

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Butterflys on a Purple Conflower.
Maryland-2004

2005-09-11T22:42:00.000-04:00

How do you like these tomatoes?

Sweet 100s-August 2005

The Sentinels

2005-09-02T21:55:00.000-04:00

Standing Guard!
Shot by my wife. They didn't move a muscle while she was shooting. She thought they were dead. Don't try this at home.

2005-08-31T22:27:00.000-04:00

Ruedi Reservoir - Basalt, Colorado

A summer morning at Ruedi Reservoir in Basalt, Colorado. Taken at 7:30 in the morning. The mist was gone an hour later.
Summer 2005

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Moth sunbathing on a sunflower

Summer 2005-In the Garden

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Pollen Gathering
Summer 2005-Colorado

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Reaching for the Sun
Summer 2005-Colorado

2005-08-16T22:55:00.000-04:00

Moonrise in New Zealand
Winter 2004 in America/Summer 2004 in New Zealand

2005-08-16T22:44:00.000-04:00

Our Maryland friends & family will appreciate this one. Taken at sunset on the Patuxent River near Soloman's Island while we were staying at a friends house. The location is the very end of the peninsula. One of the best places we have ever stayed. Thanks Lane & Sybil.

Summer 2004

2005-08-16T22:42:00.000-04:00

Duck Butts
Denver Botanic Gardens- Summer 2005

2005-08-16T22:36:00.000-04:00

This barrel cactus has been with us for over 7 years. We adopted it in California, lived with it in New Mexico for a year, and then moved with it to Colorado. It has never been given any special care but continues to put on this beautiful show of flowers every year since we've had it.

2005-08-15T23:22:00.000-04:00

Monarch on a Mystic Merlin Hollyhock.
Summer 2004-Colorado Springs

2005-08-15T23:20:00.000-04:00

Four dew droplets on a conifer leaf.

Summer 2005-Crystal Reservoir, Pikes Peak

2005-08-15T23:18:00.000-04:00

Dew droplets on a conifer leaf at Crystal Reservoir.
Summer 2005-Pikes Peak

2005-08-15T23:16:00.000-04:00

Dragonflys were posing for me everywhere on this day at Perelandra.

Summer 2004-Virginia

2005-08-15T23:13:00.000-04:00

This was one of many frogs in the pond at Perelandra in Virginia. I hadn't seen this many frogs in over 30 years. The pond was teaming with life.
Summer 2004-Virginia

2005-08-15T11:27:00.000-04:00

The Rose
From our Garden

2005-08-15T00:07:00.000-04:00

Mushrooms in bloom after a 17 hour rainfall.

Summer 2005-Colorado Springs

2005-08-14T23:54:00.000-04:00

Two lady beetles parked in opposite directions on a dewy honeysuckle bush.
Summer 2005-Colorado Springs