I’ll admit it – I love snow. Enjoying four glorious seasons is a large part of what brought me to New Hampshire. I find it relaxing and peaceful to watch it snow. I find it exhilarating to snowshoe through the forests, across frozen lakes, and among the mountains(especially on clear,…
You can’t help but smile when you see Hannah. She’s spunky with an easy giggle and exudes first-grader cuteness. Some of my favorite portrait sessions are with kids. I get to be silly with them, but they also challenge my imagination and creativity. Their high energy and constant wiggles also…
For years, I’ve wanted to stay up and watch the Perseid meteor shower and try to get some photos. With the way life goes, though, it never worked out. Either the weather didn’t cooperate, it was a full moon, or work got in the way of staying up all night….
Copy others to learn, but then go your own way. Photography, like in many things, usually means seeing what others have done and are doing and copying them at least a little to understand why they’re doing it and why it works. At some point, though, to continue growing we…
Our second day in Zermatt dawned just as marvelous as the first. We decided to explore and hike the mountains on the other side of Zermatt from the Matterhorn. That area gives the classic look of the mountain that everyone knows. We first took the Gornergratbahn, a cog railway and the…
Going into Zermatt, Switzerland reminded me of visiting a Disney resort. No cars are allowed (except for some electric vehicles), so you have to take a train to the town. Although people do live there, the majority of the people you see are tourists and everyone in the shops and…
On our last full day in Iceland, we drove north of Reykjavik to West Iceland and Snæfellsjökull National Park. The weather cooperated and provided us a relatively warm, gloriously sunny day for our trip. One memorable section of the drive was a six-kilometer-long tunnel that went under one of the…
One can’t go to Paris without wandering the streets at night, especially during the summer. Paris is called the City of Light primarily because of the Enlightenment (it was also one of the first European cities to adopt street lights), but the lights at night are beautiful. The sidewalks are…
We left for our European vacation on a warm, muggy Memorial Day afternoon with a walk down to the bus station. That’s the nice part about downtown living – less driving. Although, lugging suitcases isn’t quite the same as a stroll to get some ice cream. Everything went smoothly on…
The look of the vintage travel posters from early 20th Century appeals to me. My grandfather was a commercial artist in California, so maybe it stems a little bit from that. I also grew up in a creative and artistic family (my sister and I would often get prizes for…