2018 was a crazy year for me. As some of you know, at the beginning of the year I started my photography instruction business. Then in the spring of 2018, my husband and I started a total renovation of our forever home. In order to complete the renovation, we had to...
Sometimes I find that I become a tad complacent with my photography. Why? Complacency is comfortable. It is like curling up in an old leather recliner with a blanket that your aunt crocheted for you a dozen Christmases ago! It feels warm and safe! The problem with...
When someone asks me what type of photographer I am, I often hesitate. I like to shoot many genres: street, architecture, birds, and landscapes, to name just a few. Some may say that photographing such a wide variety of subjects makes you a “jack of many trades,...
A Smokey Trip to the Palouse Sometimes the best-intended photographic plans go off the rails due to things totally out of your control. When this happens, you need to find a way to see differently. You do not want to let a little bump in the road stifle your...
It has been almost five years since my husband and I moved from Vancouver, Canada to Houston, Texas. When we told our friends that we were being transferred, they almost seemed apologetic. “To Houston?!” was the response. We were warned that life in...
Since moving to Mississippi two and a half years ago, I have wanted to photograph the cotton fields. However, whenever I came across one, it was either not in bloom, or already harvested. This past fall, I was finally in the right place at the right time! History of...
Contrary to what a lot of people think, Vancouver does not get a lot of snow in the winter. And, it is very rare that there is a white Christmas in Vancouver! In fact, in the last 20 years, we have only had three! This year was a welcome exception. For the holidays we...
In early January I was lucky enough to travel to New Mexico’s Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. I attended the Photography Intensive Workshop put on by the Friends of the Bosque del Apache. The workshop was lead by three amazing...
Fall in a Cypress Swamp In the Southern U.S., many people feel that we only get two seasons, hot and hotter! We may not have mountains with sugar maples that turn a fiery red in the fall, but we do have bald cypress trees. The bald cypresses turn a brilliant...
Today my daughter and I went on a photo walk through Steveston. We spent a day there exploring, birding and taking pictures. Steveston village is a historic salmon canning centre at the mouth of the South Arm of the Fraser River, in Richmond,...
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