Featured in “Snapshots” e-newsletter!

Here’s Part 1 of my article for Snapshots, an e-newsletter published by Fairfax County Park Authority. I believe Part 2 will debut in the next issue. This article offers tips for photographing with a smart phone in the garden. Thanks to editor Carol Ochs for including me in the publication! If you’re local and want to subscribe, click the link below:

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/e-news

iPhoneography: Cover girl/boy/dog

We visited our dear friends Tom, Holly, and sweet Bailey in their beautiful new home in Charlottesville, VA back in August and I shot some photos with my iPhone 6s while we were downtown. Holly submitted a photo for a publication in their Glenmore subdivision and thought they would be featured inside in the “welcome newcomers” column. The magazine arrived and they made the cover, too!

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iPhoneography: Baby got books

Yep, she sure does! (Love my new supersize mug)

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iPhoneography: Nite nite, Queso

Curled up next to mom (wearing her $5 Walmart nightshirt, adorned with cats, of course)

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iPhoneography: Last of the fall leaves

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Thanksgiving 2017: Guess who’s coming to dinner?

Quest awaits the dinner bell!

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iPhoneography: King Neptune

I give you “King Neptune!” See the crown on the upper left? Then the eyes, nose and mouth below? And the long ZZ Top beard? And the left forearm reaching out to punch you? How awesome are clouds?

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iPhoneography: The many faces of Queso

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Pretty boy Queso

iPhone 6s / Snapseed app border

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Interloper

Queso slips in to steal the spotlight from Pixel. iPhone 6s / Snapseed app border

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In the garden: my meager pepper harvest

Sadly, not quite enough to start my roadside farm stand!

Shot with my iPhone 6s on my glasstop patio table; Snapseed app border

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iPhoneography: Stripes & dots

Pixel, photographed with iPhone 6s / Snapseed app border

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Sunflowers

Sunflowers at McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management area, shot in macro mode with Camera+ app on iPhone 6s (diffused sunlight with a tri-grip diffuser)

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iPhoneography: Pretty boy

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iPhoneography: Pretzel Queso

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iPhoneography: The basket challenge

If I turn my head just so, I know I can fit…see? I told you so!

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iPhoneography: Ten pounds of cat in a five pound basket

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Due north

I have a decorative rabbit weather vane on the top of the tv armoire, but we moved it last summer to start repair on the ceiling that had a leak. This is when Queso started running up to the armoire and playing gargoyle. I moved the piece to a side buffet and captured this image of him peeping through it while he was basking in the sun yesterday.

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Basket case

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Belle at Sweetwater Valley Farm

Meet my new friend Belle, front porch sentinel at Sweetwater Valley Farm, the magical cheese place in Philadelphia, TN. (She rolled over and requested belly rubs. I obliged. I think she probably wanted cheese.)

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Rapt Ruby

My sister’s cat, Ruby

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Koi study #2

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Koi study #1

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San Antonio sunset

I photographed this beautiful sunset last night in my sister’s neighborhood.

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Happy Valentine’s Day

I shot this panorama yesterday in San Antonio, TX. See the heart-shaped cloud? How cool was that? I shot this with my iPhone 6s and added the border with the Snapseed app (my favorite!).

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Meeko as gargoyle

This is my sister Debbie’s older cat, Meeko. This is her perch in the kitchen (and has been for 12 years). This past fall, Debbie and Bill got new countertops in the kitchen and the installer suggested they replace this little pass-through shelf with the granite. After installation, Meeko jumped up as usual and then went flying into space—it wasn’t the wood she normally sat on. The cold granite surface completely freaked her out. She’s been back to sitting on it after months and today was the first time Bill said he had seen her do this gargoyle pose on the new surface. (Apparently you can teach an old cat new tricks!) See her polydactyl feet?

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Boxing Ruby #2

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Boxing Ruby #1

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Runnymeade clouds

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Sparkling Lobo

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