Emily and Alex

These guys are so easy to photograph and fun to be around.  We met them at the botanical gardens for their engagement session and enjoyed every minute there.   Can't wait to photograph their wedding.

Art Walk

One of the coolest things to do in B'ham is go to Art Walk.  Each year the city hosts an art exhibit in an old part of town.  Artists set up their wares in several old stores and on the sidewalk and the public has a chance to just walk and browse and buy.  I love it!  We went today and, naturally, I took my camera.  There was so much to see so these are just  few images made with my little point-and-shoot camera and edited in Lightroom. 

Playing with Panos in the Park

Sometimes you just need to look at things differently to see them in a whole new way.  I love hike and just be in the woods and I'm fortunate to have very close to me Oak Mountain State Park with about 30 miles of trails.  This is wonderful except that about all 30 miles of the trails looks pretty much the same.  It's a southern forest with lots of green trees and creeks and moss -- not many vistas or cool overlooks.  But, it's in my backyard, only about a ten minute drive,  and I can get away for half a day and spend some quality time with Sophie, my dog.

So today, I decided to try some panoramic images to see if things would look different.  I like these.  A couple are of the road I walked today. I stuck the easy trail, and the last one is the old CCC camp that is about three miles back in the woods.  The cabins were built in about 1937.  Several are still standing but many have just collapsed and are slowing being reclaimed by nature.