Ok – so I’m giving up on trying to organize posts by subject – and will just do it by season at least for a while. There are lots of posts with just a few photos lined up – and at the rate I’m going – I may never get enough photos for an entire post dedicated to a specific topic.
So – here are some of the wonderful fall scenes I’ve photographed over the years
Great Smoky Mountains National Parks, Tennessee and North Carolina
Asters are some of my favorite flowers – they come in so many wonderful colors and shapes. Here are a few photos of various asters that I’ve edited up but haven’t shared with you yet.
I hope this newsletter finds all of you and your friends and families doing well.
I’m still here in Bethesda staying at home. April is usually one of my favorite times of the year for photographing. There are wildflowers blooming in the parks and tulips blooming in the gardens. And chances are, this year I’m not going to get to photograph any of them.
I’ve put together a new video – Tulip Time – with some of my favorite tulip photographs – to remind all of us of the beauty in the world. My photos are accompanied by a Medley of Voices of Springs Waltz by J. Strauss
Like many other small businesses, I have been figuring out how to adapt to these new and different times we’re living in. I have suspended in person workshops and events through May 30.
My “Do You Need Help Editing Your Photos” sessions have gone virtual. This is a chance for you to learn how Bill and I approach editing, and we’ll show you how we would edit one of your photos in Lightroom and Photoshop. Virtual sessions are limited to 4 people. There is no charge to attend. As I schedule sessions, I let people who have expressed interest in attending know when we have an opening. If you’d like to join the list to attend one of our virtual sessions, just drop me a note at Patty@Hankins.net and let me know.
Bill and I are both available for individual instruction and consultation on using your camera, photo editing (Lightroom and Photoshop) and printing. We can also help with theartistic side of your photography, including seeing, capturing your vision, and how to edit to match your vision. For the foreseeable future, sessions will be held virtually. The fee is $75.00/hour for individual instruction. If you’d like more information about individual instruction or would like to schedule a session, just drop me a note at Patty@Hankins.net and we’ll find a time to talk.
As I’m writing this, we’re expecting the first snow of the season here in the Washington, DC area. And that means it’s going to be a while until the flowers are blooming in the local. So I’m getting my flower fix by photographing in my studio.
If you’d like to join me for a flower-filled afternoon, I’ll be teaching my Photographing Flowers in the Studio Workshop on Saturday January 25th at my home in Bethesda.
It’s a fun workshop. We’ll have lots of flowers to photograph, two light set-ups (strobes and continuous lights), and several different backgrounds. After a brief discussion of how to work with studio lights, it’s time to photograph. No studio experience is required for the workshop.
We limit the workshop to 4 participants to make sure everyone has plenty of time to photograph and get all your questions answered.
It’s my favorite time of the year – Christmas at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania! Every year I’m amazed and in awe of the incredible job the staff does decorating the Conservatory, the DuPont house and the grounds. I usually make several visits to Longwood during the Christmas season, just so I can capture some of the magic to share.
Here are some of my photos taken in the Music Room. This year, the Music Room is decorated as an old-fashioned Candy Store
