Sorry for posting again about gardens, but I guess spring is just that time of year when we tend to visit them. This week I joined some fellow photographers on a short field trip to the Rotary Botanical Gardens in…
We've had quite a few days this spring that felt like winter, but last Friday felt like summer. The sun was smiling through the azure skies and temperatures reached 84. It was a perfect day to be outdoors, so a…
Mothers Day always gives me mixed emotions. My mother died of breast cancer when I was 21. She was 59 and, when I was 21, that seemed old. Now, of course, I realize how young that really was. Even though…
I don't think that I've written about food before, photographing food that is. A local coffee house hired me a few times over the years to photograph sandwiches and sides, coffee with barista-made foam designs on top, smoothies, and, most…
It was upsetting to read today that the Mission San Xavier del Bac, located south of Tucson, was vandalized. The vandalism was discovered this morning (4/7/16). The Mission, which has been at this location since the late 1700s, has been…
If you've been following my posts, you might recall that last fall I wrote about photographing a dress rehearsal for the opera Marriage of Figaro. This past week I was hired to photograph a dress rehearsal for the University of…
Since we're well behind with snowfall this year, I was looking through some photos of past winters to recall snowier times. I ran across a set that I took at the Pheasant Branch Conservancy in Middleton a few years ago. …
While I was enjoying spending my time on the ice of Lake Mendota, I realized that it was also fascinating to examine what was IN the ice. I didn't have to search; I only had to look down to see…
