This is so cool. Recently one of our favorite blogs, Parent Hacks, ran a story about the Butterfly Alphabet. Smithsonian naturalist, lecturer and photographer Kjell “Shell” Sandved has been photographing letters and numbers that appear naturally on butterfly wings for the past 24 years. Visit the website and check out all the resulting products yourself [...]

Wow — this Photo a Day challenge is hard work! When we first started I thought, “How hard can it be to pull out my camera every day and get just one photo?”
Answer is: VERY hard! The problem isn’t getting a shot, it’s getting a shot that matters, or that I feel is actually [...]

The Daughter and I got to hang out yesterday with my friend, her new baby and her dog. And since all I’ve been shooting lately is babies (not that that’s a bad thing!), I decided to corner my friend’s gorgeous dog, Jade, for a few close-up shots. It’s true what they say: animals and [...]