Cold As Ice

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Things That Are Cold. Here in the eastern Sacramento Valley, even in winter it rarely gets cold enough to snow.  Sometimes we do get a serious freeze — and on this particular morning I discovered the tiny “pond” in our old wheelbarrow had frozen over.   I couldn’t resist grabbing my camera and playing with the ice!   That’s ice.  Ice, baby.    

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A Snail’s-Eye View, Part 2

What really helped kick off my current obsession with ground-level macro was my discovery of photographer Kim Leuenberger and her completely awesome Traveling Cars Adventures series.  I wanted to put my own spin on her idea, so I took a tiny ’55 Chevy Nomad and a mini 2001 Mini Cooper to the coast with me and played with a couple of […]

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Clear Lake, Sunny Days

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Things That Are Hot. It’s late May, and we are staying in a small cabin on the shores of beautiful Clear Lake — one of the oldest lakes in North America — during our annual fishing trip with family and close friends. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours on the deck of an […]

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