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The Second Chance

A lone figure stands pondering the emptiness of the Alvord Playa as the morning light glows on the horizon.

Existential Beauty

Iris Fur

Close-up of an Iris.

Manly

Virginia Creek, North Carolina

This location is near my home and is a great place to observe large water fowl such as Egrets and Herons. Personality changes with season and tide.

Petunia In Windowlight

Colorific

Delicate Beauty

Oregon Coast

Driving down Hwy 101 between Newport and Yachats I pulled over to stretch my legs and came upon this gorgeous site that I might have missed out on completely if I hadn’t slowed down.

Home Sweet Home

My husband and I took an outlook road to view some of the John Day Fossil Beds. I saw this shack and made him pull over so that I could jump out and photograph it. It was sitting there all by itself and it made my mind wander to when it might have...

A Place To Pray

Inside this small white chapel are brightly colored murals that give its name “The Painted Church”. I was struck by the tremendous beauty of the plainly painted exterior. The almost gothic look of the exterior seems to find balance amidst the tropical...

Bath Of Waves

My Passion

Beautiful Passion Flower

The Forest Sings

Taken in along Bushy Creek inside Bankhead National Forest, and area in the Northwest Section of Alabama.

Walking Sipsey

Taken in Sipsey Wilderness inside Bankhead National Forest, and area in the Northwest Section of Alabama. This is my favorite place.

Waterfall Sunset Light

Ketchikan, Alaska is home to the northernst rain forest in the United States. This gives an amazing opportunities to photograph waterfalls and other waterscapes. The waterfall you see in this picture crosses a road, however, the trail to the top where...

Manhattan Sunrise

View east from the window of a bed-and-breakfast in midtown Manhattan

Lone Tree

Lone tree at the edge of a cliff in Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

Rocky Beach

El Salvador offers wonderful and interesting volcanic beaches such as this one. Taken on an early morning walk along the beach. I like the contrasts and surreal nature of this scene.

Calla Lily

White Calla Lily

Vibrant Purple And White Striped Iriis

Bright purple Iris with white stripes and green grass-like foliage

Desert Wildflowers

Spring wildflowers in Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Lands

Escarpment To The Alps

View from Mont Blanc of the ridges of the Alps ascending from the area near Chamonix, France

Stranded

I have seen calving from Glaciers in Alaska but never the Blue Ice we experienced at the Jokulsarlon Glacial Lagoon. To get to the Lagoon you have to take a short hike to a ridge that over looks the entire lagoon and glacier. We arrived at about 7PM....

Lake Tahoe's Emerald Bay In Winter

An aerial photo of lake tahoe's emerald bay on its lakes from the last ice age. This was taken from a chartered cessna (doors off) at sunset just after a january snowstorm

Sand Melody

Death Valley Dunes, photographer's paradise! This is my recent take of the first light on the cold winter morning. I had to walk more than a mile inside and only then I started finding out virgin dunes, where I stopped seeing any human footsteps....

Also labeled: Deserts, Landscapes, Light, Nature

Pinnacles

The canyons of pinnacles national park and the greenry of sping. The rocks formations came from an ancient volcano on the california coastline now split in two by plate tectonics with the remaing half of the volcano in southern california

Solitary Tree

The Badjao Seafront boardwalk and restaurant makes a perfect place for those who never gets tired of catching the sunset and of walking on rochy shores just to capture compelling images. In this place, no subject is more dominating than the other. The...

Daybreak

Wandering through the university campus, I came across these old farmhouses and barns that have been preserved with historical markers. The sky was clear and the sun was hitting the buildings at the perfect angle. So I grabbed my camera (without...

Forgotten Past

Walking past several historic building just blocks away from the Orpheum Theater, I saw these buildings and snapped away not realizing that the colors and contrast would be amazing. Most of my photographs are not planned ahead; just random shots here...

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