Mother’s Day Week, 2013 Over on Google+, my good friend Brian Matiash (newly head of the Google+ Photos Team) asked us to post something everyday this week over there with the hashtag #HeresToTheMoms. It’s been a special tribute to our moms and it’s been lovely! My mom shifted dimensions on July 20, 2008. But as one…
You wander around the beach at sunset, visions of brilliant cloud splendor dancing in your head. And yet… the heavens just aren’t cooperating as enthusiastically as you ‘d like. What to do, what to do? My ponderings exactly, on this particular evening with the hubs and photographer friends on 4 mile beach on Santa Cruz.
Yes, I’m a photographer. But more than that, I’m a lover and-out-loud liver of life. So was my mother, which is probably where I picked up the propensity. If I were to dump everything I’ve done professionally and otherwise into a heap, it would read something like: photographer, voiceover artist, actor, dancer, figure skater, writer,…
I visit the Redwoods whenever I can. I’ve talked about my history of swinging through the trees in a previous post (click the link to see it). Here, there are some bay trees in the mix; they’re the ones with broader leaves and thinner trunks in the foreground. They smell awesome and add some nice variety to…
Imagine that this is called “Mirror Lake”. Go ahead, imagine it! ‘Cause it would be true. On the way to Milford Sound, you can get out to stretch your legs, take a little 5 minute walk and enjoy this view of the Earl Mountains. This photo is a sneak peek into the story of my…
I used to look at other photographers’ photos of Sand Harbor, Lake Tahoe, Nevada with a sort of reverence. I’d study them, admire them, then immediately despair of ever achieving anything so lovely. Even after I lived in the mountains not far from this spot, I avoided going over there to photograph because I was…
We visited Paris a few years ago. It was December, right before Christmas. A seriously dreamy-dream come true! I went for a voiceover job and my darling hubs got to come too, which made it even more dreamy. We stayed a couple of extra days for our own sightseeing… then stayed another couple of days…