Saturday evening I photographed the Arizona Theatre Company’s annual gala. I drove down to the mostly outdoor event through torrential rains after an entire day of rain, which is an unusual event in Tucson. Needless to say, I was not looking forward to photographing four hours in rainy conditions – even if they did scramble […]
The birds know where to be on a hot sunny day … http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com
Used to chart movements in the heavens of other astronomical problems, the nine-ringed armillary sphere has been in use since at least AD 140 Greece. The center sphere originally represented the earth, in keeping with Ptolemy’s idea of the planets orbiting the earth. It later came to represent the sun with the Copernican theory of planets, […]
The ducks were having a mid-day chat by the pond about just who’s who, in case there was any question regarding turf! http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com Any use requires licensing from Martha Lochert.
May this day bring you a sense of hopefulness; of new life; new beginnings; joy & re-birth. Happy Easter. Image copyrighted. http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com
Do you want to photograph the fireworks? 1. Get as close as you can. 2. Use a tripod. 3. Set your camera to ISO 200 and your exposure mode to manual, then set the shutter speed at 6 seconds and aperture (lens opening) to f11. 4. Watch where the first fireworks burst and aim the […]
It’s the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. Cheers! http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com
I planted my first apple trees last April. They are still sweet little four-foot popsicles, but apparently they like where I planted them because they started budding a few weeks ago and are now in full bloom. It isn’t officially spring, but it is in Tucson – and the varieties I planted (Dorsett Golden and Anna) are […]
I walked out on my porch and this beautiful little hummingbird was taking a rest. I thought he was hurt, since his wings were out. Usually the hummers fold their wings in close to their bodies when they stop flying. He patiently awaited while I went in to get my camera, then crouch down and move within […]
Another New Year’s Eve is upon us and it seems the overwhelming consensus is that 2016 can not end soon enough. There seems to have been a disproportionate amount death this year – and I am not just reacting to all the celebrities who have passed (and there have been a lot), but I have […]
A detail of the beautiful Spanish Colonial architecture on the “White Dove of the Desert” – Mission San Xavier del Bac – founded as a Catholic Mission by Father Eusebio Kino in 1692. It is the oldest intact European structure in Arizona, built 1783 to 1797 by Ignacio Gaona and his native American O’Odham workforce. http://www.sanxaviermission.org/History.html Image […]
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In honor of all who perished on that horrible morning fifteen years ago – of all nationalities – and all who put themselves in harm’s way to save the lives of others. We do still mourn. http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com
Columbine (Aquilegia) growing by an aspen tree in southwest Colorado. The blue columbine, also referred to as the Rocky Mountain Columbine-White and Lavender species, is the state flower in Colorado, but the genus includes 60-70 species of high-altitude-loving perennials. http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com Image copyrighted. Any use requires licensing from Martha Lochert.
This post is for the photo hobbyists I teach. Don’t be afraid to use motion to your advantage. Yes, we want to capture clear and stunning photos, but sometimes showing motion is the very thing that adds interest to a photo and makes it transcend a sterile documentation of an object. I could have photographed this […]
Eighty-three years ago today (Jan. 5, 1933), construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge. Joseph Baermann Strauss was appointed Chief Engineer for the Golden Gate Bridge project. His original bridge design was for a cantilever-suspension hybrid, but by the time it went into production, that design changed to the full-suspension bridge we all know. When the […]
A bounty of harvested pumpkins for this Thanksgiving week. It’s really something to ponder. There are bounties in our lives that go unnoticed. Stop and notice them. Sometimes they are like this pile of pumpkins that I photographed – haphazard, disorganized, even chaotic – yet in their random state they become a beautifully orchestrated arrangement. […]
I was walking in the woods and came across this tree. A beaver felled it. According to http://http://animals.mom.me/long-beaver-chew-down-tree-11371.html it probably only took about five to ten minutes! I wish I would have seen it in action. While beavers can seem to be a nuisance, they actually help us in many ways. By building their dams, they create a […]
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This is Church Rock in the Navajo Nation off US-160 west of Kayenta in northern Arizona. (36°44’02.9″N 110°07’07.1″W) I think it is aptly named. Reverence noun rev·er·ence \ˈrev-rən(t)s, ˈre-və-; ˈre-vərn(t)s\ :honor or respect felt or shown : deference; especially : profound adoring awed respect http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary I felt that here. Though just off the highway, […]
This little gem is just off the road along the middle fork of the Cimarron river in Uncompahgre National Forest – at the western edge of the Uncompahgre Wilderness in southwest Colorado. Image copyrighted. Any use requires licensing from Martha Lochert. http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com
The other day Colorado Parks & Wildlife posted a photo of Rifle Falls and it made me think of the photo I made of the footpath up to the falls when we were there last summer. Rifle Falls is a three-part waterfall in Rifle Falls State Park – northwest of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, the left […]
(Don’t worry, this isn’t yet another post on the whole worn-out, tired debate over which one is technically better – film or digital!) I miss the days of film. On this day, I needed to pull some old medium-format negatives to scan. The process of looking at each negative with a loupe on the light table we […]
Imagine my surprise when I was preparing my yard for a party in May and noticed this in one of my trees, not one hour after having trimmed some of the branches. Needless to say, I was a bit nervous, given five days later I was going to have 85 guests in my backyard who […]
Need an escape from work, from the city, from cell phones, from email, from Facebook and from technology in general? The Briar Patch Inn on the banks of Oak Creek in Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona, Arizona is where I would suggest you go. It is a charming family owned property with free-standing casitas […]
This must bring back some memories for some older folks. A-1 beer was a product of the Arizona Brewing company from 1933, when brothers Martin & Herman Fenster founded the company, until it was bought out in 1964. They used the eagle in their logo from 1942 until 1958 when Anheuser-Busch forced them to remove […]
Chocolate-covered strawberries are delicious as is, but presentation makes them even more appealing. How they are photographed makes or breaks their appeal, as well. The quality and direction of the light makes a difference – in this case, soft window light from the side, not the front, to create dimension. There are plenty of places to […]
Yesterday I spent mid-day on University Blvd. and Congress St. in 104 degrees photographing the new parking meters being put in by Park Tucson (formerly named Park Wise). The photographs are for a promotional campaign to get the word out that there are now numerous choices in paying the meter. In addition to the traditional […]
At a recent studio session, one of the ladies in a group I was photographing, arrived on the Dutch messenger bicycle shown here. My immediate reaction was to ask if I could photograph her bike, since I have a friend who would dig seeing it, since she also owns a Dutch messenger bike. I love the […]
As a commercial photographer, my assignments vary from day-to-day. Sometimes my subject matter is stunningly beautiful and other times it is mundane or rather uninteresting. What I have to think about on the days when my job is to photograph the mundane is how I can create the most interesting imagery, given the subject matter? […]
I love when my clients have fun. Despite planning, organizing and implementing the annual Torch Awards luncheon for ethics in business, the staff of the Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona still managed to have fun at the post-awards mixer last Thursday. That’s a good thing; it makes work enjoyable and business relations prosper when […]
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