That feeling when every photo you take has some sort of technical or style deficiency. That moment when you tell yourself to shut the hell up, enjoy the damn view and have a little faith in your...

Did I already post this picture? I could probably look but I’m lazy. This is also a giant ad for Airtran. I don’t mind. Their GoGo in flight interwebz is awesome. I don’t think I’ll be taking another flight until the last quarter of this year. This’ll be tough for someone like me...

Do you ever feel nature is reaching out and trying to talk to you? No, not after you have some E. I found this leaf curled into this beautiful cursive S, just hanging out in the dead remnants of what was probably a lush vine in the Spring. Sssss….unira....

This little guy sat patiently while I shot him from several angles. His profile is his best side, though. :) Macro photography has always been my strongest passion in the field. Something about capturing the details we overlook in everyday life appeals to me. I’ll be honest: I simply...

I was looking though my old photos from around my birthday looking for a picture of me when I came across this picture of my friend Sam. The man’s a good writer, and a budding blogger. Check him out. I had taken it though the dirty glass at a cabin in the mountains, covering his working...

I dream about this stuff that I shouldn’t eat. But you bet your ass next time I’m in Fort Myers, I’ll be buying a box....

Jeremy and I were taking a walk in a local park last week. While discussing some philosophical topic or another, the sound of propellers fell on our ears and we looked up to see a yellow biplane making it’s way over Duluth. Jeremy’s got a thing for old stuff. He dreams of one day renting...

It’s so gray outside. I miss the vibrant colors of fall. I did get out this weekend but surprisingly had no desire to take more photos.  Maybe soon, my muse will appear but until then I’ve got some bits from 2011 to share with you....

It’s mobile photo Friday again, where I showcase some photos taken, edited, and posted entirely from my phone! Today I’ll post a few I took in India on my last day there. A large temple looms on the street where I was buying fruit from a vendor. Clothes are hanging out to dry...

It looks like my friends and I are planning another cabin trip coming up in February. This time it’ll be a ski trip. I’ve never gone skiing before so I’m getting pretty excited already! I think I’m getting over my post travel slump. I even took a shower this morning and didn’t pass...

This wonderful fruit stall vendor sold us some fruit but as we were leaving, she slipped two guavas into my hand as a gift, as a gesture of kindness. It was obvious we weren’t really natives. I really appreciate that about a lot of the people here. They are poor as dirt but they still have a...

Dear people on the internet that read my blog. I am overseas. I am also unbelievably bad at updating my blog when I am not half-drunk on a plane. Here is thispicture I took on my phone the morning of my last flight. So far I have only been taking pictures with my cell phone. There’s...

I like to, every year or so, go back and look at how I started getting into photography…the months where I thought putting ugly black borders with titles and copyrights on my photos were okay. The years I  worked with a cheap 4.1 MP camera because I was falling in love with photography...

That means reflective river romance, people. All I had with me was my P&S and well… you can tell. Image quality fail. BUT… hopefully you’ll just be so blinded by the stupid cuteness it won’t matter. AMIRITE? It’s just shadows. This way you don’t have to be scarred by full on...

In two weeks I’ll find myself at the airport boarding a flight to India. I have some mixed feelings about it. One, I am super excited about the trip. It’s been exactly one decade since my last visit. Things are going to be very different from how I remember them at 16. Two, I am a bit...

I’ve been playing with Lightroom 3 and so far I like it! I thought I was going to miss the control over details that I had in Photoshop but the adjustment brush is way awesome at fixing that caveat. Working this image was definitely fun. It was easy to reduce all the noise without any real...

For having such a strong aversion to spiders, I sure do take a lot of photos of them....

We had some intense rains last week....

You can almost see me in the reflection. I think it’s cool that you can see the surrounding bushes and the houses....

Tips of the leaves of a garden plan I have in my front...

Leaving church last Sunday, I found this guy staring at me on top of my car trunk.  He is miniscule but my natural fear of spiders makes me very aware of their presence around me. In fact, just today, I had to make Jeremy pull over into a neighborhood after Thanksgiving with my family so...

I’m tempted to wait until after tonight to post some epic shots of a birthday party but there’s always next week! Here’s some mobile photo highlights from last week. An ominous sky. Love me some WaHo! I discover a photo compositing tool for my phone! Love it! Crop of a...

I have no idea what these are but Jeremy and I found some on one of our walks and spent some time trying to photograph it. Jeremy’s trying to use his phone. I liked his results but they’re not on here. This is what I wound up with, with the best bokeh ever behind it. :] Here are a...

Lavender. Now that’s a color I didn’t expect to see in the fall. I wish we had actual fields of lavender somewhere I could go shoot. Until then this random purple stuff’ll have to do. :) My good friend the smart weed makes an appearance. God knows what this is. Or this. But hey,...

My most favorite person in the world turned 27 yesterday. That’s okay. Clearly he’s still 10 inside, which is one of the best things about him. Happy Birthday again, Jeremy! The entire set of photos from the surprise shindig are here. Nothing professional, just fun....

So Jeremy and I engaged in a photo challenge this evening. We had one hour to roam around the park and take photos on our phones. We could then process them on our phones and then pick out 10 favorite. This was hard because I took close to 200 photos but here’s my 10. I chose to stick to...

Mobile Photo Friday is a collection of photos taken over the last week or so. The requirement is that all photos are taken on a phone, edited only on a phone. I use it to challenge myself to be visual and creative during every hour of my day! Have a good photo you took with your mobile...

Another series of images I took last weekend and the weekend before of fall glory! :) The leaves are like an inch deep in some parts. Fall can be even more stunning with some serious blue sky. I think looking up is one of my favorite things to do this season. As well as producing bokeh....

I was so thrilled to see this little guy on my walk early Sunday morning.  Cardinals are such amazing creatures. A flare of red among the other fall colors had me swooning. When I was dejected about having no subjects to shoot that morning, God provided this, and some others, instead. ...

Okay people it’s bokeh time. I made jeremy hold this up in like 20 different positions so I could get the bokeh right in the background. Poor guy. He tolerates me. It was super bright that day. Here’s my cheerful assistant. :-) The sun was super bright. :/ so things got washed out a...

Okay these colors were cray cray. It was like walking through an enchanted wood. And everything was on fire. It gives me the shivers looking at these photos. :) This entire week will likely be fall photos. I have … oh … nearly a thousand in store....