Tomorrow morning, bright and early, Yumiko and I and Yumiko’s friend Sally will take off for Tokyo. Ken has been there for about a week, but Yumiko and I needed to wait until school was over. We will be back home on June 29. If I have a chance, I’ll keep you up to…

I’ve been taking an eight week portfolio class concentrating on insect photography. It has been wonderful finding all kinds of new bugs every day. This morning while combing the fields of Valley Forge I came across a tiny little bug that had no head. It was minute, so I wasn’t sure if it was…

My friend lent me his 300mm fixed Nikon Lens just so I could get the feel of it. Take a look at this little squirrel’s nose. Oh…. what a beauty of a lens. And that squirrel ain’t bad neither.

I am taking a new portfolio class and just love it. It is forcing me to concentrate on one type of photography for a few weeks – never easy for my scattered brain. But over the past few weeks, I have had so much fun just looking for different bugs and am always amazed…

It is spring in the fields and forests of Valley Forge. And I have to tell ya, this little macro lens of mine is finding so much going on out there in bug world. It just amazes me.

I had just finished photographing a hover fly on a little wild flower near the Pond at Eastern University when I was approached by a nice man and his son. The man asked if I liked snakes and I said absolutely. He said there was a big black one over by the edge of…