The Struck’s

Photos from the Struck Family at beautiful Mayfield Park. We started early in the am…and even then it was HOT not to mention humid. We had a good time chasing the peacocks. Thank you Ellen and Andrew and the kids, Sophie and Henry for putting a smile on my face.

Here is the beautiful Sophie

And a somewhat concerned Henry…he had to warm up a little bit.

Probably one of my favorite all time family shots.

There is that great smile from Henry.  He made us work for it but we got it!

Alaska, almost a year later

This has been a long time coming. Maybe it is the 100 degree heat that got me motivated to get photos from our trip to Alaska last August up on the blog. Alaska was absolutely the most naturally beautiful place I have ever been. There are a LOT of images to see…your lucky, I took over 2000 images and I am showing you about 60 of my absolute faves. That was probably the biggest task and why it has taken this long to get them on the blog. Narrowing them down. I would start to go through them and I would get lost in remembering the trip and then I really like this photo over here…it was one of the hardest projects of mine I have ever had to edit down.  Enjoy and let me know what you think.

taking time to…shoot the flowers

Somebody recently asked me what my hobby is.  And I replied to them…”Well, it’s photography”.  They said, “Well, isn’t that your profession?”  And I said, “Well…yeah, but there is a ton of different things out there to photograph”.  So photography can still be a hobby even though it is my profession in the way that you can tinker around with it and photograph things you don’t normally do on a daily basis.  Take flowers for example…for some reason I love to photograph flowers as my side hobby.  I think what I love about flowers is that the closer you see them the more amazing works of art they are.  God must have spent a lot of time when he was making flowers.  All of the intricate details that flowers develop.  Layers of texture and pattern, color palettes and intricacies of the petals.  I know…I am going a little overboard.  But i find it absolutely amazing that there is so much beauty in such a small package.  Just some food for thought.  Here are some flowers I picked up at Central Market…can’t remember what they are called, but they look like a cross between a rose and…something.  Maybe you know.