“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow
The first stop for our summer family vacation this year was San Francisco. One of the things my family wanted to do was visit Alcatraz Island. Luckily, we heard that tickets needed to be
“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. ”
― Walker Evans
I have seen many pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge, located in San Francisco, California, since becoming a photographer. The images that seem to stay with me are the ones that have the bridge disappearing into the fog.
This past week, I had my first opportunity to see the bridge in person. I intentionally did not
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
― Mother Teresa
As I have written, I participate in an ongoing photography scavenger hunt. Participating photographers are given a list of words and work to create an image for each word. In a recent hunt, one of the words was
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.”
― Neil Gaiman
Each year, at this time, I feel compelled to take my camera to Roan Mountain State Park to photograph the rhododendron in bloom. Due to other scheduled activities, I did not think that I was going to be able to make it this year.
For the past few days, I have seen posts from friends who were heading to Roan Mountain to photograph. I talked myself into believing it would be fine for me to miss out on a trip to Roan during the rhododendron bloom
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
Several weeks ago, when my great friends, Amy, Tony, and I spent the weekend photographing in the Charleston area, we were faced most of the weekend with gray, storm threatening skies.
There was one evening, however, that we were able to experience
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
― Aaron Siskind
When I began my 900 Days of School project, I had some goals in mind. By searching to capture an image a day,
“Photographic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.”
― George Barr
I just finished my thirty-first year teaching young children in the public schools of the Carolinas. The past twenty-six years have been spent teaching at the same school located in Charlotte, NC.
Since I am in the final years of my career,
“Following that scavenger hunt of curiosity can lead you to amazing, unexpected places.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
There is a wonderful group of creative artists who can be found on Google Plus, who have been participating in
“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”
-Dorthea Lange
Beautiful skies are such a welcomed sight to a nature photographer. Magnificent, colorful skies add so much to a landscape image. Often, the nature photographer will be rewarded with brilliant skies to enhance his/her composition.
Unfortunately, this past weekend in Charleston, there would be no help from
