The coquina rocks at Washington Oaks Beach have all sorts of interesting patterns – from round holes to weathered layers. Depending on the tides the patterns are enhanced by the ocean. I wrote before of my friend, Court introducing me to seeing faces in nature, which is called pareidolia. Now I can’t stop finding them … [Read more…]
We came to Florida for some winter photography. My husband grew up in Florida until he was 14 years old and I had only been there once to the Orlando area. We had signed up for a workshop on Sanibel and Captiva Islands, with our friend Les Saucier, but also wanted to explore some other areas to … [Read more…]
We only had about an hour and a half to photograph. The temperature was warming up fast and the snow was melting. The sun came out and it was getting very bright which makes it hard to photograph snow and ice. We knew that not much would be left by late afternoon when the angle … [Read more…]
The real question in photography is what is the most important element – what draws the photographer into the scene? Looking at this issue from the other side, the question would be what don’t we need in the scene. When we see with our eyes, our brain cleans up the scene and automatically minimizes or … [Read more…]
This has been a fairly warm winter, but in mid-January, we finally got some snow. As it often happens around here in winter the roads are too dangerous to drive on when it snows, so we hunkered down for 2 days until it started to warm up. It had not been warm enough to freeze … [Read more…]
I have heard these waterfalls called both Mare’s Tails and Rooster’s Tails. This day they reminded me more of mares running and their tails streaming out in the wind. The rock formation in the stream bed causes the water to arch up and fall back down so that it looks like a tail. They create … [Read more…]
I am ending my Top Ten with 4 photos taken in the first half of 2016. I love taking Infrared photos of the patterns of lotus leaves at the Italian Gardens like in the top photo. The reflections are especially fascinating to me. The photo below was taken one a day when my husband and … [Read more…]
Today’s photo picks are all waterfalls. The first was taken at the end of about an hour standing in a stream trying all different sections of Eastatoe Falls. I was trying to decide what else to do and came up with the idea of trying Intentional Camera Movement or ICM, which to me gives the … [Read more…]
This begins the second year of my blog. I’m starting the year the same way I did last year with with my Top Ten of the previous year. I learned this technique from one of my mentors, Martin Bailey. You can click on the link if you would like to try his process. I find … [Read more…]