01 Sep 2008

Jamaican Clouds

Notice the clouds in the sky - they are glowing from the rising sun.  

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30 Aug 2008

The Fisherman

This photo was taken as the sun was rising of two fishermen getting a head start on all the other fishermen as the sun began to rise. The exposure for this photo was 1/500 second at f/11, no flash was used.

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19 Jun 2008

Grand Canyon Gallery

Visit our Gallery of Grand Canyon photos at the link below:
http://www.joyousimages.com/blog/?page_id=154

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14 May 2008

Slide Rock

This is a photo I took in Slide Rock State Park in Arizona.  I didn’t quite get why they named this slide rock.  However, if you touch the rocks, you would see that they are very smooth in texture.  Not your everyday rock!  And the color of the rocks are so pretty.  [...]

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02 May 2008

Cactus in Silhouette

This was one of the last photos I took during my hike. I thought the sky was so pretty in the background behind the lone cactus.

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02 May 2008

Golden Cactus

 I took a long hot hike in the late afternoon at Fort McDowell State Park in Arizona to get this photo as we dodged two snakes. Who says there aren’t snakes out here?? I think the golden brush and the mountains in the background with the cactus make this photo very nice to [...]

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31 Mar 2008

LaJolla Beach

 What a beautiful place! This is LaJolla Beach in sunny California. It is absolutely breathtaking.  I didn’t want to leave.

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18 Mar 2008

Mysterious

Here is a very interesting sunset with the clouds in the sky making an abstract. To me, it almost looks like a tornado….what do you think?

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27 Feb 2008

Sunrise on Mars

What does this photo look like to you? Actually this is two photos merged into one. I took a photo of the sunset and combined it with a photo of clouds I had taken when on a plane headed to vacation. I opened both photos in Photoshop and put one on top [...]

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26 Feb 2008

Viewing Pleasure

Spring is just around the corner or is that wishful thinking on my part? When taking this picture, I used the wooden chair as my rule of thirds. As you can see, there are different depths starting with the bush & flag on the left, chair on the right, dogwood tree on the right [...]

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