Thanks and inspiration for this post goes out to The Geek Lawyer, who responded to my article with a question on how to improve cell phone picture quality. You could call this a side-article to go along with the others I have written on photography in general. Improving your cell phone pictures, is it possible? It is! Light it up! You might remember me going on an on about light in my other articles about photography and digital...

[singlepic=29,150,150,] I think the world needs to appreciate sunflowers just a little more. Sure, roses are beautiful and delicate and pretty smelling–I agree. But there is something about the sunflower that is just as enchanting. Maybe it is my secret love affair with the color yellow, particularly rich, bright, gold-like shades of it. Or maybe because in a secret past life I was some sort of sun worshiper with a garden full of...

I have always held a deep affection for bright or rich colors. My husband sees in blue, red, or green while I see in royal blue, rose red and forest greens. I say there are thousands of different greens, he says green is green is green, some light, some dark. It’s funny how men and women generally see or consider color so differently. Some of us women folk have four color receptors in our eyes instead of the standard three, so we...

Shawn and I visited Turkey Creek Sanctuary a second time this weekend, we went last weekend. Last weekend, I forgot to put the card in my camera (oi) so I wasn’t able to take hardly any pictures. Internal memory of most digital cameras suck so hard. This weekend, I went back with my digital camera and card and took a lot of pictures. It’s a very nice little park/nature preserve with board walks that seem to go on forever. There...