2014 Photography Show

2014 Photography Show

I have been the chairperson for my local art center's photography show for 2 years now. I submitted 11 images this year and these 8 were accepted by our 3 judges. Sadly I didn't place with any of them but they are for sure a few of my favorites from this past year, with the exception of the hot air balloons I did that a few years ago. I had some tough competition for sure, there were so many beautiful entries. I was excited that my daughter placed in the "Faces" category. Win or lose I will continue on and hope to get better and better with my photography. Thanks to all of you for your input and comments.  

Bridges, trestles and piers

I am not sure what my attraction to bridges, trestles and piers might be, my only guess would be that I love leading lines in pictures. Here are a few shots from my travels around California.

Golden Gate Bridge

Moss Landing Train Trestle

The California Delta

Ventura Pier

Trestle Bridge over Pudding Creek 

Trestle Bridge over Pudding Creek 

Pick Just One.................

Pick Just One

I am on several photography groups and was just recently asked to pick my favorite picture. Geez I had no idea how hard that would be.  Well I picked this one. This picture to me represented a bucket list thing of  mine "Must get Pictures". I love animals, whales, sea life etc. I was fortunate enough to return to Alaska in 2013 and while in Juneau we headed out whale watching. I jokingly told my friend "Yeah I just want to see a breaching whale" well my wish (bucket list) came true, while out our Captain and crew spotted a mother and baby humpback whale, this baby appeared to be having recess after a long school day, she kept breaching and rolling and slapping the water. WOW!! I also had the camera gear I needed to get the shots, in the back of my mind the whole time I was out there, "please be in focus". I got so many great shots that day of this baby. When I returned home and really started going through all my images I sent this one to the crew because while on board the naturalist told me if I got any good ones she would love to see them. Well after doing that I was contacted that they wanted to add this image of this baby to the Juneau Registry of whales for identification! I was thrilled to provide the image. So this at the moment is my favorite picture. 

Churches

Churches 

I really never realized I had so many church shots until I started writing this blog entry. I just love the architecture, it is truly art to me, from the simple to the very ornate. So here are a few shots that I have gotten in my travels. 

Trinity Church, St John New Brunswick, 1791

St John, New Brunswick

Old St Hilary's Church, Tiburon, Ca., Carpenter Gothic 1888

Yosemite Valley Chapel, Ca. 1879

Methodist Church, Bodie, Ca 1882

Baptist Church, Old Sturbridge, Mass. 1750

Methodist Church, Sutter Creek, Ca. 1862

Trinity Church, St John New Brunswick, 1791

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

Boats

~~~~~~~~Boats~~~~~~~~

I really never realized how many boat shots I had until today. While editing a few images from Alaska I started looking back at some of the boat shots I had. These were taken in Alaska, New England and the California Delta. 

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. 

L