Spring is around the corner
The Cherry Blossom festival in Washington DC is a favorite every spring. Getting the best photos of the scene is not always easy though! These are my favorite images from around the Tidal Basin
More to Wales than Horseshoe Falls?
I used to live just on the Welsh/English border and so had plenty of time to head over the border to the dramatic and often empty landscapes of North Wales. Relatively close to where we lived was a magnificent waterfall called Pistyll Rhaeadr.
Horseshoe Falls – no, not that one!
The true location of Horseshoe Falls is perhaps a little more isolated that you imagine. You can find it near Llangollen in North Wales!
Featured Artist of the Month!
One of the trials of modern life are Spam calls! So back in January, my phone rang and displayed a local 304 number, but I'm well aware that Auto Warranty…
New River Gorge National Park
The newest (and one of the best) National Parks in the USA is to be found in West Virginia! The New River Gorge Park was created out of the National…
The Waterfalls on Decker’s Creek
Deckers Creek tumbles alongside Route 7 from Masontown to Morgantown in West Virginia. Although its lower stretches are polluted from an old mine leak, the upper section has some great…
Cucumber Falls in the winter
Cucumber Falls is a really cute little waterfall in the Ohiopyle state park. This park, in the bottom southwest corner of Pennsylvania has set of large river waterfalls, white water…
Lake Tahoe hidden spot
I always do a search for good photo locations when I visit an area, and a trip to Lake Tahoe in California was no exception. I read in an interesting…
Aiming for perfection
It is intriguing to ask a professional photographer why they go back to the same place time after time and take (sometimes) a very similar photograph. In my case, I…
Capturing the moon in a photograph
Those images of a scene with a bright, but perfectly clear moon are fantastic, and I have hopefully succeeded with some of my own, but why are many of the…