Category — Travel

Took a visit to New Orleans last week. Spent most of my time in the French Quarter, but also visited the Audubon Park and Audubon Zoo.

My only regret on this trip is that I noticed that there was an “endangered amphibians” exhibit at the zoo right before it closed which I wish I had seen. I love painting frogs. Ah well…there is plenty of other great reference photos for painting from this trip…including a couple neat frogs who lived in the reptile exhibit.

In the Quarter

Street Musicians

It has been longer than I intended between the time I mentioned that I would post my favorite landscape photo, and the time I actually did! Without further ado, here it is. The Seldovia Harbor during sunset. (click the photo to view it bigger if you are on my blog)

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I recently visited Alaska for one week. Flew into Anchorage, drove to Homer and spent most of my time there except for two days I spent in Seldovia.

Alaska can at times be a very rainy and foggy place. This made a lot of the days difficult to catch clear photos of the incredible mountains without a lot of noise. But I did my best. [Read more →]

I am currently in Homer Alaska on vacation. I had a quick moment before breakfast so I wanted to post a photo from a kayaking trip yesterday of an otter. I saw four of them. They are very cute and I wish I could take one home.