Praying mantis playing twister on a flower. This young praying mantis, about two inches long, appeared precariously balanced in the garden.

  Last evening only hours after summer started a sudden thunderstorm popped up and a lone vulture braved the wild winds. There was violent thunder from several directions as these clouds swirled fueled by the day’s heat.

Bumblebees are enjoying sips of lavender nectar. This was a fun photo shoot for me since the bees were very active and the lavender flowers smelled great. I shot this with a relatively shallow depth of field to have sharp focus on the foreground bee and throw the background bee […]

  I shot this fast flowing mountain stream in the Smokies with a neutral density filter to slow the motion of the water and convey some sense of its power in slow motion waves.

  I was struck by the color of these maple leaves in the foreground spiraling up from green to red in an inverted seasonal display. With summer days away the red leaves newly emerging already hint at autumn. The tall peak in the distance is Mt. Mitchell, the highest summit […]

  Spring reflections. This was shot with a neutral density filter to allow me to use the bright but warm light of late afternoon to gather all the reflections in this stream. With a 13 second exposure at f/20 I maximized depth of field to create a symmetry of green […]

Somehow this very slow motion view of a stream reminds me of the old children’s song. In this alternate reality captured in 15 seconds with the assistance of a neutral density filter, life is but a dream. In the foreground the water seems slowed to gentle waves on an ocean […]

The Rays of the setting sun are caught by the pine branches in the Black Mountains of North Carolina.

This is a completely different take on the same fire at a campground in the Smokies. This was taken at 1/80 when lots of sparks were flying off into the night