Travel Theme: White – Cattleya Orchid
The delicate, exotic orchid is the most highly coveted flowering plant. It is said to represent strength, love, beauty, and luxury. The cattleya orchid is the queen of orchids, the corsage…
Red Trolley, Calcutta, India
Travel Theme : Red from Here and There
A fellow photographer once suggested, "If it is red, shoot it." What is it with the color red? Research shows that red is hardly anybody's favorite color. Only about eight…
Clouds Over the Everglades
Weekly Photo Challenge: Near and Far in the Florida Everglades
"The River of Grass," as Florida's Everglades is sometimes called, is one of my favorite destinations for landscape photography. Especially in the summertime when it is all about the clouds.…
Today’s Photos – Gravely Marking Time
I love to take my time visiting and photographing old graveyards. The residents usually don't mind. In those long forgotten cemeteries, like this one, nature is working at reclaiming what…
Sunday Post: Reflection
"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." ~Confucius If there is anything more beautiful than a sunset, surely it is a sunset reflected over water. Thanks Jake for…
Hibiscus Reflection – Sunday Post
Again, I have resorted to Photoshop trickery to create the illusion of a red hibiscus bloom and its rippled reflection for this week's Sunday Post: Reflection challenge. The original photograph is of…
Weekly Photo Challenge:Free Spirit
When I think of a free spirit I think of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach, a short novella I read over thirty years ago. Have you read it? "Your…
Travel Theme: Curves – Liquid Bamboo
For this week's Travel Theme: Curves I resorted to some Photoshop trickery again to completely alter the appearance of a clump of bamboo I photographed in Bali into a curvy abstract shape of greens.…
Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Merge
A little Photoshop trickery helps me merge shapes and colors into a fluid design for my contribution to this weeks Photo Challenge. I started with a single orchid bloom photo you see…
Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Growth (2)
A new frond emerges on my Australian Tree Fern.