I really should update here more. Still, that doesn’t mean I haven’t been taking photos. Quite the contrary.
Here are a few things that I’ve done since I’ve really done a proper update.
I hope you enjoy this peace offering for not updating in like forever. Let me know what you think. (Be nice, please)
I want to wish you and yours a great holiday season! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah!, Wonderful Yule, and Happy New Year!
I hope to take some photos at family celebrations, so keep a look out for what I get.
My best!
It’s World Photography Day, and I didn’t realize it, or knew about it, until I logged onto Facebook this morning. Yay! I’m glad to know that there’s a celebration out there for a great form of art.
If you pop on over to the World Photography Day website, you can learn more about this momentous occasion, and upload a photo from your corner of the world. I uploaded the photo above from the Kissel Hill wildflower field.
Today, really is the 177th anniversary of the discovery of modern photography. On August 19, 1839, the French government released the patent for Daguerreotype, where modern photography comes from. Cool, huh?
Also, I can’t believe I haven’t done this before, but as a celebration and as a gift to those out there, here’s an e-book of some of my early photographs. I put it together a while ago, and had to update some info, but, it otherwise, chronicles my photographic journey as a child and into early adulthood.
Please, enjoy and share it! The Creative Commons license is listed in the book, which is in PDF format, so follow those guidelines, please.
At the intersection of Kissel Hill Road and Oregon Road in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA, is a beautiful field of wildflowers on a farm, which is right by the Lancaster Airport. The owners of the farm kindly let people wander around the field, as long as you don’t pick the flowers. People have been telling me to get out there and take some photos, so I did.
I got some great shots! Beautiful shots! It was lovely to stroll around this place on Sunday afternoon.
The above shot, of course, is from that field. Here are a few more shots I would like to share with you.
Now, want to see the rest of them? You’ll have to hop on over to my portfolio for that! And it’s worth it.
Yay! The French family that belongs to my photography meetup group just got their green cards! As a celebration, one of the meetup members organized a “Proud to be in America” picnic to honor such an occasion.
The picnic was located in Overlook Park, Manheim Township, PA, USA. It was a lovely day outside, a tad warm, but otherwise gorgeous. The picnic started off with a photo walk around the park, which had some pretty interesting details and scenery around it. Here are a few of my photos.
What a great day!
Oh, I couldn’t resist bringing some of my hoops along to the picnic, too. Adults and kids alike got into the hooping action, which you can read about here on my hooping blog. In fact, here’s a photo of my friend Diane giving hooping a shot.
If you would like to see the rest of my photos from the picnic, I encourage you to head on over to my portfolio site to check them out!
I’ve been doing this photography thing seriously for about nine years now, and I thought it would be neat to see how my photos have evolved and changed throughout the years with a subject I love: flowers. Let’s take a look at the evolution of my flower photography through this handy dandy slide show.
I hope you enjoy looking at these photos as much I did. I had to choose my favorites from quite a few years!
How has your photography grown throughout the years? I think it’s a good exercise to take a look back at your older work and see what you’ve done and how you’ve come along.
Ah, I remember this photo! This came from a series of photos that I did as a lighting experiment with colored cellophane over lights. I placed the glass in a light box to diffuse the lights.
I was mostly going to a silhouette effect, like this photo from the same series.
I was just starting to flex my experimental photography muscles in this shoot from the spare bedroom in my apartment.
If interested, here’s the flickr page for the featured photo, including the EXIF data.
