Vasona County Park is a favorite for those who live in or near Los Gatos. The Los Gatos Creek trail, which runs through the park, is...

Photographers can be gear-hungry people—upgrading equipment as better technology evolves. This often means that old cameras lie around...

With temperatures at almost 90 degrees, Seattle residents who were suffering a meltdown headed for the fountain at the Seattle Center to...

Still Life scenes are popular subjects for painting and photography because the maker has complete control over the composition and...

What's around me depends on the day and time. So when the 365-Day Project gave me that as a topic, I was standing in the kitchen deciding...

While walking outdoors today, I saw hundreds of bugs flying through the air. At first I thought they might be those tiny gnats that seem...

Need I say more? One week ago my Covid at-home test was positive. A few days later, my lab-based PCR test was positive. Now I am back to...

The Sea, by Irish author John Banville, was reviewed in The Guardian as one of the best Irish novels. Because I have plans to travel to...

(Image: William Dent, CCO, via Wikimedia Commons) For more than two years I've felt as if I've been evading Covid, much like a fox evades...

According to Gulliver's Travels, Lilliput was an island of tiny people who were only inches tall. I imagine that the flowers on the...

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...

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...

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

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