I recently returned from an 8-day “cruise” in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Spring is one of the best times to visit because...

When you live on a rural property as big as mine, it is not unusual to find old things strewn here and there in the woods. I've found a...

This buck looks as if he is leading an easy life, resting in the meadow surrounded by tasty grass. But this is not the typical pose of...

I spent a fair amount of 2020 learning to use Photoshop and a number of other image processing tools. One of my goals was to learn how to...

Last fall, my landscaper lined my driveway with 500 daffodil bulbs. Her crew did such a good job replacing the dirt and grass that I was...

I love New York not only because I was raised in upstate, but because the state is fabulous. NYC is one of the most vibrant and exciting...

Flowers look best in their natural habit. But when practicing to compose and photograph still life scenes, plucked flowers look terrific...

Turkeys spend so much time walking and running on the ground, that I wonder why they have wings. The males fluff them out and make...

Looking through my photo archives, I came upon this still life. During spring last year, it seemed many of the photos submitted to my...

A lot of art was created during the pandemic–music, photos, collages, poems, and more. For me at home, most photos I created were related...

I was organizing my photos the other day and came across a few that I captured on September 9, 2020. As you'll recall, pandemic...

In Is This Food? I wrote about the artificially intelligent search engine that identified home made fire starter as food. Understandably,...

The di Rosa Art & Nature Preserve is a California gem. Located in South Napa, I’ve stopped there a few times on my way to wine tastings....

When I lived in Seattle many years ago, I was never aware that snow geese migrated from the Russian Arctic tundra to the Skagit Valley...

I once attended a workshop in which the presenter talked about flower photography. She pointed out that photographers who capture images...

As humans, we have a strong tendency to make meaning from otherwise random arrangements. The term for is is pareodoila. When I...

Joseph Ballinger Chiles (cheye-els) was one of the people who received a land grant from Mexico in the 1800s. Like most people in the...

I have an search plug-in for Photoshop (Excire) that supposedly uses machine learning (AI) to analyze images and figure out what's in...

You've heard of Sweet 16, but probably not sunny 16 unless you are a photographer. Maybe not even then. I've been taken photos for...

The Old Faithful Geyser of Calistoga erupts about every 90 minutes. While waiting, people can hang out in lounge chairs, play bocce ball,...