If a picture paints a thousand words

This blog is a place for me to work on my photography. My goal is to submit a new picture every day and to get better as the moments go by. I take all pictures with my digital camera. I worked for years with a 35 mm minolta, and this is a learning experience for me. I am afraid that I got lazy and allowed the camera to choose most of the settings for me. This is my journey of learning how to shoot a camera that is not in a program mode. It is harder than I ever imagined. That makes this challenge both a new experience and a joy for me.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Arizona Marshland


“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”  Rachel Carson

Gnomio and Juliet


"Juliet: He is a blue.
Gnomeo: She is a red.
flamingo: And I am pink." - -- Gnomeo And Juliet

Tall and Proud


Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. ~Arthur Freed

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb

Dancing With Daddy


Any man can be a Father
but it takes someone special to be a dad.Anne Geddes

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

More For Fun

The Bride loved the examples of these pictures that she found on the internet.... I loved her shoes, so we both had fun with setting these up.


"To laugh often and love much...
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others,
to give one's self... this is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -


"Follow your bliss." - Joseph Campbell

More Pictures of the Bride and Groom


"Love doesn't make the world go round. 
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Franklin P. Jones


"To the world, you may be just one person.
But to one person, you just might be the world."
Brandi Snyder


"True love stories never have endings."  Richard Bach

The Wedding



"The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart."  Helen Keller


"Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints
on your heart."  Eleanor Roosevelt