Shooting Stars!

There is something magical about the night sky. If I am lucky enough to find myself far from city lights and can see the millions of visible stars and the amorphous Milky Way, I can’t help but be awed by the universe. Shooting a dark night sky can be both a mystery and a challenge if you haven’t done it before (and even if you have!). This blog walks you through the process I use.Read more

Hello Big Beautiful World!

So. My name is Alene, and I’m a photographer. I live in the Pacific Northwest and I photograph many kinds of things. Landscapes, nature, people, buildings. . . I like to capture a moment in time and freeze it so we can look at it and see something more than we see as time speeds by. Sometimes that’s an expression on a loved one’s face, or the way light rakes across a building, or the way snow stacks on aRead more