Category Archives: Our Interests and Hobbies

I decided to do a little touch-up with Adobe Photoshop to some of the pictures.  Much to my surprise, I learned that this software has some filters that make the photos look as if they are painted.  So I started having a blast making changes to my original photos.  Some of my photography is just straight from the camera but a good majority now have been changed to have my own artistic touch on them. 

I now have over 7,000 photos that I have taken over the past 5 years.  This hobby has opened my eyes to the incredible “architectural” design of nature.  It is with the purpose of showing people this vast array of design that I take pictures now.  Nature mirrors to us the creativity that resides within us.  I want people to be awed by possibility, if only one takes the time to ”see”.  

Speaking of “seeing”, here’s an example of a  flower whose inside reminds me of a symphony hall.  I called this one “At The Opera”.  I found this night blooming desert cactus flower in someone’s front yard at Alpine’s Sage and Song Festival:  

(Family Cactaceae , order Caryophyllales , native to the Americas . Many cactus species are night blooming , as they are pollinated by nocturnal insects or small animals , principally moths and bats.)  

At The Symphony

 Here is another flower with incredible design.  It is called a Passion Flower.