Almond Orchard

I was lucky enough to get out to the beautiful almond orchard before the storm hit. This has to be one of the best manicured orchards I have ever seen. My daughter received permission from the owners to use if for a photo shoot with some of her clients and she brought me out to do some landscape photos. Thanks Mary.................great idea!! 

Night Photography

Night Photography

Night photography as always been a challenge and interesting to me. Here are a few shots of long exposures at night.  I have always loved lights and lighting so I think that might be my attraction to this type of photography. 

Lodi Grape Festival

Downtown Lodi Garage

Bay Bridge

Lodi Grape Festival

Palace of Fine Arts, SF

Golden Gate Bridge

Lodi, California

Lodi, California

I moved to Lodi in January and am always looking for new places to go shooting. I also have designed 2 sets of postcards to put at my local merchants for sale. This is set number 2 that I just got back from the printers. I have been able to capture some sunsets and also our local celebrities the Sandhill Cranes. I have posted before about the cranes but with living so close I now can go visit them several times a year while they are here. The farmers around us will flood their fields for the cranes and other birds. It is quite a site to see hundreds of them flying in. 

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Stuck in Lodi Again

Stuck In Lodi Again

OMG I am really afraid people are going to start calling me the crazy bird lady!! While out for a drive the other evening to look for something interesting to photograph, we wandered down Stanton Island Road on the outskirts of Lodi, Ca. And low and behold there were the Sandhill Cranes and some Egrets as well and many other birds. So we got out and wandered around the area and stuck around for sunset. Here are a few of my images from that night. 

Sandhill Cranes~Full Moon

Sandhill Cranes

Birds of a Feather 

Sandhill Cranes

Sunsets and Sunrise

 Sunsets and Sunrise

I love shooting at sunset and sunrise. Although I am not a morning person so sadly there is only one sunrise in these shots. It is amazing how sunsets are never the same. I think if I shot 365 sunsets and maybe 1 sunrise a year they would all be totally different. I love when there is a storm coming near sunset, clouds can turn any picture pretty in my opinion. 

Valley Springs, Ca

Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe

Lodi Lake, Ca

Lodi, Ca

The Delta

Walnut Grove, Ca.

Wallace, Ca.

Hawaii

Sand Harbor, Lake Tahoe

Sandhill Cranes

Sandhill Cranes

I made a visit the other evening to see if the Sandhill Cranes had arrived yet. Well when we first arrived there were none but by the time we left there were hundreds of them. They started off with just a few them several came in for a landing then some more and more................ They are fun to watch and they can get quite loud too. They come every year from Alaska,

Photo Booth

Photo Booth 

When I am not busy out shooting my landscape photography I am usually running our Photo Booth business on the weekends at weddings, Quinceanera's, parties and reunions with my husband Ed. My passion is doing landscape photography, but unfortunately it doesn't pay the bills so until it does we will supplement our income working these events. We tend to be the hit of the party because people can put on some crazy props and pose for 4 pictures and take home a memento from the party. Check us out at www.marygphotography.com 

The great thing about our photo booth is that it is a complete deal. You get 2 attendants, a large upscale photo booth, large 2.75x8.5 photo strips, a custom color curtain, a graphic for the bottom of your photo booth strip, a large selection of props, unlimited photo strips, 2 monitors, a disc of images, a 12x12 completed scrapbook of all your images signed by your guests, high end Canon equipment. All you have to add is your guests for a bunch of fun for your event. Contact us at 209-304-7068
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Lodi Grape Festival Entries

Since I am a new resident in the town of Lodi, Ca. I thought I would enter the Lodi Grape Festival this year. Here are my 6 entries that I will be entering. I was able to do 3 color and 3 B&W entries. I chose these 6 mostly because I already had 4 of them printed, matted and framed. So wish me luck! 

Umbrella's, Las Vegas

Lodi, Vineyard

Lady Baltimore, Juneau, Alaska

Aspen Trees, Hope Valley

Giraffe, Safari West, Santa Rosa, CA

Golden Gate Bridge

Sunset in Lodi, Ca.

I am now residing in the town of Lodi, Ca. I love sunset and have many in my portfolio. This is my favorite picture I have taken since moving to Lodi in January. I am in love with clouds in my pictures any  size, shape or form. I really feel they give a new element to a scene. 

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