The Arizona Biltmore

The Arizona Biltmore

Last week I traveled to Phoenix, Arizona for the annual Heritage Makers Reunion. This year we got to stay the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa. You don’t know how excited I was to be staying in a building designed by the late Frank Lloyd Wright. I’ve been a...
Surprise, I’m having a Baby!

Surprise, I’m having a Baby!

This is the first photograph you see as you open my son’s Baby Book.  Getting pregnant with my son CJ was a bit of a surprise to my husband and I.  And I wanted to tell our parents in a unique way.  Well he was so excited he told his Mother right...
7 Tips for Photographing Panoramas

7 Tips for Photographing Panoramas

Don’t have a wide angle lens to capture the landscape before you?  Why not create a panorama by shooting a series of photographs you can stitch together. This is exactly what I did last month while vacationing in Utah.  I don’t have a wide angle lens and I could...
P is for Park

P is for Park

As in Zion National Park. Last month I spent my vacation spending time with family and photographing both Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks. This is one of my 1,200 images.
Branching out in the sunrise

Branching out in the sunrise

Nature’s first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost I have loved this poem since I was a...

3rd Annual World Wide Photo Walk: The Images

I have reluctantly returned from my vacation in Utah.  One of the first things I did was process the images I captured while participating in the 3rd Annual World Wide Photo Walk.  I couldn’t delay this task as we have a limited time to submit our...
Photographing at a national park

Photographing at a national park

If you haven’t heard, I have a unplugged from technology for a week or so and am vacationing with my family in Canyon Country.  More precisely, we’re traveling to Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks in Utah. I am quite familiar with photographing in our...
Photographing Vacations

Photographing Vacations

This week I am vacationing with my family in Canyon Country. I am blessed to have dear friends who are loaning us their cabin for the week, which is nestled nicely between Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks. If you are a regular reader of my blog, you may recall a...
The Rain Dance

The Rain Dance

Morning dawned too early this morning.  The air was humid.  Could today be the day that this parched desert landscape would be blessed with moisture from Mother Nature? To bring good fortune to the land, the native children prepared for the ritual.  Clothed in their...

I have a serious case of…

Vacationitis! Have you ever had Vacationitis?  All I can think about is vacation right now.  Last night I was up till 2 in the morning writing blog posts for next week while I’m out of town on vacation.  And what did I write about?  Yep you guessed...