I have always been an individual optimist. When I was is psychology graduate school, I read in one of my textbooks a phrase which has carried me through many trials and tribulations in life. A famous psychologist said: When things look bad, and getting worse, "The world will not come to an end if..." should …
Continue reading Lens Artists Photo challenge #122: The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow
We have three Japanese Maple trees in our back yard. Just a few days ago, they all had green foliage. In a very short time, they all turned brilliant red. I find it nearly miraculous that this change takes so little time. Sorry for the mess on the ground-we are surrounded by huge cedar trees …
Continue reading Some Pacific Northwest Fall Color for your enjoyment
It turns out that one of my favorite Subjects for picture-taking is my black cat, Kikyo. She follows me everywhere around the house, so I can take her picture in all sorts of situations. However, isn't it true that it is very tricky to photograph a black cat (see what I did there? Happy Halloween!)? …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #121-Focus on the Subject
I'm not a professional photographer, and I've never been to exotic foreign lands. But I am an amateur bird-watcher, starting in my own backyard. I am often to be found in our kitchen, peering out the sliding glass door, watching to see who shows up at our two bird-feeders (one seed feeder and a suet-feeder). …
I thought to myself: Aren't you pretty? So I turned it over. Pretty fall colors. Life's simple pleasures.
In May of 2019, I took a little driving vacation by myself, to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. One day, I went to one of my very favorite places in the world, the Dungeness Spit National Wildlife Refuge. I have been there dozens of times, and every time I see something new. The path …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #117: A Photo Walk on Dungeness Spit
This morning when I went out the front door to walk across the street to our mailbox, I noticed that our neighborhood was shrouded in fog. We have a pear tree in the yard, and on my way back home I noticed that it was shrouded in spider webs, made more visible by the fog-deposited …
On our South Dakota trip, we spent a pleasant afternoon at the Mammoth Site, near the town of Hot Springs. For some reason, we thought that there were probably few people at the Hot Springs that day. Here's why. That's what WeatherBug told me. We were very pleasantly surprised to find that the site of …
In my graduate studies in Psychology, one unit we studied was "interpersonal attractiveness". The professors at my university had done numerous studies of what makes a person attractive. They asked thousands of study subjects to rate photographs of various people, male and female, young and old. There are many dimensions to attractiveness, and different people …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Challenge #116: Symmetry. It’s hard-wired.
This little video was taken through my second-floor bedroom window, looking down on a vine maple tree in the backyard. The leaf in the lower center looks like it is dancing in the air. Can you figure out how that leaf stays in the air?
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