I participated in my first local photographers’ group shoot today at Crystal Peak Park in Verdi (about four miles from the California-Nevada border west of Reno).
I wasn’t very lucky with capturing any wildlife, but there were plenty of bipedal creatures to photograph.
Same plant, different camera, different time of evening. (40mm, ISO100, f/10, 1/100s)
Well, not exactly MY neighborhood, though I spent a couple of days there last spring at a friend’s home. And I did shoot this as I was making the six-block walk up Rhode Island Avenue to the Shaw-Howard University Metro. Does that count?
Washington, DC – Near Howard University.
Some more from my shoot at Fort Churchill.
This week’s photo challenge is Home.
Home is, and will always be, the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
These two photos were taken on our 2004 trip back home. There is nothing fancy about these shots, and they were taken with a old point and shoot digital on completely auto settings. When we go back (and we will), I’ll do better.
We spent much of our time there visiting old haunts as we had not set foot in Hawaii since 1977.
This is half of Booth Park in Pauoa Valley. Pauoa is a little valley nestled between Punchbowl and the Pali Lookout. I climbed those trees as a child and it was gratifying to see, nearly fifty years after the fact, that this little town still looked pretty much as it did when I was skinning my knees there.
This is the He’eia Kea Pier. It juts into Kaneohe Bay in the little town of Kahaluu, where we moved when I was in the fourth grade. The windward side of Oahu was home to me until I entered my sophomore year in college and I moved to Honolulu just off the University of Hawaii campus.
A few more shots from my Sunday shoot at Fort Churchill State Park.
The weather was pretty nice yesterday, so I grabbed my camera and left the office for a little photo time. I kind of followed my nose and wound up at Bartley Ranch Regional Park.
In front of the old Huffaker School House there is a life-size sculpture of a boy and a girl playing at a water pump. I’ve been searching high and low for the artist and have not been able to determine who created this. However, it does bear a striking style resemblance to the sculpture I photographed last spring outside the Raggio Building on the University of Nevada campus.
I added some texture to these two.
Carissa Snedeker Photography 