Moraine Park – Rocky Mountain N.P.

Moraine Park is a popular campground inside the Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s a beautiful meadowland with a winding stream running through. We did not see any elk when we arrived there at noon but I can envision in the cool morning at the right […]

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Bear Lake – Rocky Mountain National Park

Bear Lake area is a very popular for hiking and sightseeing. The parking lot often filled by early morning. Fortunately, the Park provides free shuttle bus service to various destinations and popular trailheads. There is an half of mile around the lake trail at Bear […]

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Rocky Mountain National Park

I have been touring Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado in the past 5 days. This is the first time ever for me to visiting this magnificent park. I have taken many photos but will not sort them out until getting home. While in this […]

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Sunflower Field at Sunset

Photographing sunflower field at sunset is quite different from photographing them in the morning when the sunlight is coming from behind the shoulder like the previous posting. It presented major challenge in handling the sunlight. I ended up taking most of the shots using HDR […]

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Time for Sunflowers

Located on River Road in Poolesville, Maryland, McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is a 2,000-acre tract in a mixture of woodlands, fields, wooded bottomland and managed wetland impoundments. The State of Maryland plants sunflowers in several fields with a total area of approximately 30 acres […]

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Sunrise

I always enjoy taking sunrise photos, especially the brilliant sky! The feature photo above was taken at Lake Tahoe – Emerald Bay.  Monument Valley: On a Country Road near Frederick: At Ellicott City Hot air balloon launch

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More Lotus Flowers

I took quite a few shots of lotuses when I visited Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens last Saturday. As I went through more images yesterday I found a few more I like and would like to share with my readers here. Like shooting any kind of flowers […]

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Lotuses at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens

I went back to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens yesterday morning. The lotuses were in full blooming conditions and will probably stay that way for at least a week. I used my Nikon D600 camera with all purpose 28-300mm lens. I set my camera at manual mode […]

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World Heritage Sites in China

We visited China about ten years ago in 2007.  We first toured Yunnan Province in southwestern China and afterwards spent 10 days in Beijing to tour all the tourist spots in the area, including Chengde Mountain Resort.  Here is the picture of the Great Walls […]

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World Heritage Sites in Italy

My first visit of Italy was in 1998 and that was before the digital camera become popular. I still remember taking fifteen rolls of Kodak 36 exposure film and coming back for developing and printing and sadly throwing away half of the prints (what a […]

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World Heritage Sites in Croatia

We had a very nice visit to Croatia in December of 2008. That was many years ago before I established my website (blog) and before I ever heard of the term “World Heritage Site”.  We were most impressed with the old southern town of Dubrovnik […]

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