Lit Little Cloud

Here is an image that has a lot going for it (with many positive comments regarding it), but one drastic thing wrong with it that basically ruins the entire photo, at least for me. The main thing favoring it is the light. It has nice light. Beautiful light. The bright, controlled light in the distant cloud, the dark light in the above rain clouds, the soft warm light on the

Curvy Lizard

I know many photographers will discuss the compositional and geometrical merits of their photographs with profound profundity, nodding to shapes and depth and leading lines and asymmetry, concerting foregrounds and backgrounds, oh my. I actually hope to become one of those photographers. But I’m not there yet. (I tell myself it’s all niggling nonsense, secretly masking my jealousy at their talent for taking amazing photographs and then discussing them in

Fountain Fun

  There is a fountain near my house that our kids love to play in, particularly in the 100 degree droughtish summer heat. Given our kids aren’t the only kids in town, our kids aren’t the only kids at the fountain either. It is a wet Mecca for soothing all sorts of boresome frowns. I could lie and say that I watched and waited like a hungry lioness, an ungraved

It Disappeared

And the blog disappeared.  The link failed.  The crowd booed.  The critters crawled back to their dens and snorted some more moist soil. It all failed.  Miserly.