Milky Way

This image of the Milky Way, an arm of our spiral galaxy, was taken at the Charlestown Breachway in Rhode Island...it is a difficult area to photograph:  light pollution is always an issue here in RI plus there is a trailer park behind me with lights and fishermen with headlamps...however, the lights did serve as fill light for the rocks of the breakwater, so it wasn't all bad.

The Grand Landscape

As anyone who has followed my website or seen my images knows, the grand landscape is my favorite form of photography...it seems to me that we all see the world differently; some of us see it on a grand scale taking in a wide view of the environment, and some of us see more intimate detail.   From the moment I began photographing, because I was a painter and lover of landscape painters such as Turner, Constable and the Hudson River school artists, landscapes felt right to me...
If you are a photographer, find what you love and work at it...often I will photograph intimate landscapes, my dog, animals, macro..but my love is for the grand landscape...this is an article written for a friend's blog a few months ago....

http://www.morethanasnapshot.com/blog/2015/6/9/the-grand-landscape