Swan

Family

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley

Wednesday

Edelweiss

Memorial Day weekend

Small things

Yes, more flowers

Flowers....

Flowers make such wonderful photographic subjects...
As do children.

Thursday..

Almost weekend!

Hut 1

Another image from San Antonio Zoo

Hyacinth

On deck 2

On Deck

Ruins

“All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.”
Ovid

Ruins

Jamaica 2009

Seagul in Flight

Blossom

On cloud 9

The clouds in San Antonio

You!

Rose

Strength

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.

Abstract

Globe

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.... Adlai Stevenson

One more

..before I start my day

Spring

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

I went on a nice evening walk yesterday evening, and caught some beautiful blossoms.. Spring is finally here!

Experiment

An experiment on one of the flower photos I did in the San Antonio Zoo. I'm not completely happy with it, but it was fun to do.

The wheels of time

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza - Dave Barry

Flow

Mortality

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. Susan Sontag

Simplicity

I like the simplicity of this, because simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Flowers

Earth laughs in flowers - R. Emerson

Defeat

San Antonio Zoo, April 2009

A strange brain warp made me think of the following quote when I finished this photo:

"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated. It is finished when it surrenders" - Ben Stein

Green Mamba

San Antonio Zoo - the reptile house

It was quite dark in there, so I had to shoot it at a high ISO, and it ended up more grainy than I would have liked. I had a polarizer on my camera (dumb luck there), which helped fend off the glare off the glass.
ISO 1600, f2.8, 1/250 sec, 100mm lens

Fly Girl

My Aerial Yoga instructor.
She was hanging down from the ceiling, in case you were wondering.

Empty Crate

An empty crate on an empty beach.
Cozumel, February 2009

Different angles

Alex - April 8, 2009 - DTW Airport
ISO 800, f2.8, 1/250 sec, 100mm lens

Things and People

There's beauty in all things and people. I hope to share some of the beautiful things I see around me through photographs. I am finding that it can be hiding within the smallest things - you have to really keep your eyes open to see it- , and it is often just a matter of finding a new or different perspective on something that at first glance seems ordinary or boring. As with anything in life, I guess.
San Antonio Zoo - April 12, 2009
ISO-400, f2.8, 1/100s, 100mm lens