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Wise Words Sunday
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” Francis Bacon
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Weather Advisory
What do you do when the wind chill registers in the single digits and the National Weather Service issues a winter weather advisory? You stay home and practice the art of still life photography....
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Wing-Feather Fables: Naiad Dreams
In Greek mythology, the Naiads were a type of female spirit who presided over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater. Not to be trifled with, the Naiads. Read on…...
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An Ode to Influences
This image is the result of numerous creative influences – influences that had me exploring and experimenting. Our work is certainly the result of our own inner creative urges – the forces that...
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Wise Words Sunday
“Explore a different path - if it’s a dead end, explore another.” Paul Foxton Exploration – what will you be exploring for this month’s Third Thursday Challenge? Join me on February 21 for a new...
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Venetian Blinds
I’m not quite sure what it is about windows and blinds. But there is something there that attracts my eye. Maybe its the geometry of the repeated pattern – all those lovely lines. Or as in this...
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Be Inspired Guest Post
My partner in fables, Lisa Ahn, graciously asked me to write a guest post for her “Be Inspired” series. You will find me there today, sharing how very much I am like a duck. If this simile piques...
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Third Thursday Challenge: February
Photography is a two-dimensional medium, which attempts to re-create a three-dimensional world. My “go-to” compositional style is the fill-the-frame, straight-on view – there’s something about the...
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Wise Words Sunday
“Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.” Charles L. Allen +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The February edition of the...
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Blurry Vision
In this month’s edition of Exploring with a Camera, Kat continues the discussion of Artistic Blur – this time exploring the application of blur in post-processing. Playing with Photoshop – now...
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Wing-Feather Fables: The Tears of Stars
A magical warehouse behind the curtain at the Italian deli – who would have guessed? Well, Lisa brings it to life in her latest fable..read on. Zephyr’s Emporium sells everything. Most days, I buy...
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Third Thursday Wrap-up: February
The February edition of the Third Thursday Challenge was a rousing success, if I do say so myself. When I envisioned this monthly challenge, I hoped it would provide a safe place for each of us to...
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Faking It
Hungry for golden light, weary of winter’s gray, I journeyed into the archives for today’s featured image. Ol’ Man Winter won’t get the best of me. No, if he won’t deliver, I’ll just fake it. With a...
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Hopeful
The weather doesn’t usually bother me all that much. One of the perks of being retired is that I only have to go out if I want to. However, after months of gray Ohio winter, I am longing for some...
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Wise Words Sunday
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Textures by Pixel Dust Photo Art
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Two for One
dip·tych: n. a work made up of two matching parts A recent Digital Photography School post presented an interesting concept: using a diptych to tell a story. ”A diptych of two images, or parts of...
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Wing-Feather Fables: The City of Dreams
What does it take to fashion a dream? To rebuild a life? Warning: you may want to have a box of Kleenex close at hand. This one moved me to tears. The City of Dreams insists upon its own disassembled...
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It’s All About the Sky
Sometimes it’s all about the sky. Sometimes nature paints the heavens with a soft brush, delicately pulling out threads of cotton-candy and the jets leave contrails of white vapor streaming behind,...
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Wise Words Sunday
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.” Marianne Williamson
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