Shooting wide is very uncomfortable for me.  As  a portrait photographer, my natural instinct is to get in tight – always wanting to fill the frame. For this photo, I used the widest setting on one of my not-so-great lenses.  This was shot at 28mm.  My family was playing in a local park.  I was […]

What a hot weekend here in NYC!  How’s it by you? My daughter running through a Bamboo Forest is my photo choice this week for the theme of VERTICAL>  The bamboo just seemed to go on forever! If you have any you’d like to share, put the link in the comments section Next week for […]

Are you enjoying your Memorial Day Weekend so far?  The weather here in NY has been unusually cold and nasty – not what you would expect for the unofficial beginning of summer. Here is my photograph for UMBRELLA Letting my little one play in the rain made her so happy!  Fortunately it was warm that […]

I love shooting telephoto – bringing your subject in. Yesterday my friend Karen and I were at Googa Mooga.  I will do a whole separate post on that.  There she was standing in the middle of a crowd.  I zoomed all the way in to get this… I love how the background gets all blurry! […]

My daughter loves to do cartwheels so I thought that would be  a good opportunity to work with slow shutter speed – showing the movement. I like the funky thing going on with her legs – looks almost ghostlike!  I set my camera to a shutter speed of 1/20. I had to put my camera […]