I often make a set of cards with my photography on them as gifts. This week, I made some cards and decided to go with a square theme. These photo grids were featured on the front of the cards. They are all from my photography library. From top left: Les Puces de Saint-Owen, Paris (Parisian flea market); abandoned building, Galveston, TX; Casa Batllo, Barcelona, Spain; Park Guell, Barcelona, Spain; Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore (Hindu temple in Chinatown); Les Puces de Saint-Owen, Paris
Crawling Vines & Weeping Willows
I've been going through my photo library to find images for various projects and came across these plant photos. Some of them were taken in Valencia, Spain at the Jardi Botanic, and some were taken at Kew Gardens, near London, England.
Winter Wonderland
It's been a couple of years since I lived in the UK, but I've been going through some older photos to put up in my guest room. Here are some that I took after a snow storm while living in Richmond.
Last Quest of the American West
For my summer vacation this year, I met up with my family in Lake Powell, located on the Arizona - Utah border. These photos were taken around Page, AZ at Horseshoe Bend, Antelope Canyon, and at a scenic overlook near Lake Powell. I visited the museum in Page and learned a lot about John Wesley Powell, the explorer and geologist that Lake Powell is ironically named after.
Powell's expedition was the last great exploration in America and the first to chart the Green River. He started his journey on a small boat in Green River, Wyoming and ended his trip at the Grand Canyon. Powell's main goal of the expedition was to prove his geological theories which later gave him the title of the Father of American Geology. What's unique about the Colorado Plateau is that it's walls reveal the secrets of the earth's surface--of how it formed and changed over millions of years. But now, much of Powell's discoveries are now under water...at the bottom of Lake Powell.
"The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock, cliffs of rock, tables of rock, plateaus of rock, terraces of rock, crags of rock, ten thousand strangely carved forms...cathedral shaped buttes, towering hundreds or thousands of feet, cliffs that cannot be scaled, and canyon walls that shrink the river into insignificance, with vast hollow domes and tall pinnacles and shafts set on the verge overhead; and all highly colored." - John Wesley Powell
Move Like a Jellyfish
Over Memorial Day weekend, I went down to Monterey, California and visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium. My favorite exhibit was the jellyfish. It's not hard to take some amazing shots of these sea creatures. This is also my first post in a LONG time. I even forgot how to log in to my Wordpress account. Pretty embarrassing. I have thousands of photos and need to get to work on posting them!
