Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
A Day in the Studio
Hi Y'all!
Beautiful week with all the wild flowers blooming! Achoo!
Did a photo shoot in a dance studio this week! What creative fun it was. The shoot was to create images for Bob Cheever's next CD that will be released in the near future. It will be called "Smoke and Mirrors." Go to www.bobcheevers.com to see and hear more of his great work.
We all put on our creative hats and went to work. Thanks to Sharon Berger and Noreen Tierney for all their creative beauty and brawn! Could not have done it without you beautiful ladies!
Attached is one of the images from the shoot. Stay tuned for more information on Bob's upcoming CD and the resulting CD cover!
The "Seeing Red" Rally in downtown Austin was a great event. ~350 people turned out of all ages. Attached are two pictures from the rally with many more still in the queue.
Book your appointments for bluebonnet portraits soon! Also, now is the time for outdoor photography of any kind! Give me a call an we will get it scheduled!
Friday, January 20, 2012
LaSenda Orphanage Guatemala
Hi All!
This is LaSenda School and orphanage in Guatemala started by two amazing missionaries 18 years ago. Steve and Pam English
I travelled with 11 other ladies from Bee Creek United Methodist Church in November 0f 2011 on a mission trip to help out at the orphanage.
Words can be placed with pictures as this movie depicts. However, pictures go far beyond...
Take a look and see.
If you would like to donate to LaSenda or sponsor a child go to:
www.twop.org The World Our Parish
LA
www.lascottphotography.com
Monday, January 16, 2012
Friday, December 2, 2011
I returned from Guatemala not too long ago. What a beautiful experience. God's work was everywhere.
The first evening before bed, hugs went around like beautiful treasures at a Thanksgiving table. The first photo will show you the faces behind the hugs. Those hugs filled me up and I slept that evening like I have not done in years.
The hugs continued on all week...
When getting up in the morning and walking out to get some breakfast, "little" Good Morning voices came from different places along the way filling my heart with sweetness. What a beautiful walk to breakfast.
Steve and Pam English have been missionaries at LaSenda for 18 years. Seeing what has been accomplished fills you with what God's love has done with the helping hands of caring people. Please take a look at The World Our World Parish. www.twop.org Donate or sponsor a child!
On the last day, before going to breakfast, while taking the trash down to the trash receptacle, a little hand took the trash from my hand and we walked together hand in hand to get the job done. Instead of holding on to the trash, I was able to hold the hand of a sweet little boy. That filled my soul. Those same hands had held mine the night before at church services.
The remaining images are dessert~~
Thursday, November 3, 2011
We are all Orphans one way or Another? In a Sense...
Orphan: one who has had some protection or advantage taken away
We are all orphans in one way or another either partially or completely for many different reasons. It does not feel so good does it? There is a yearning to fill painful voids when they occur.
Imagine being orphaned by both parents as a child.
I will be leaving November 7 on a trip to LaSenda orphanage in Guatemala with a group from Bee Creek United Methodist Church. The orphans at LaSenda have had the disadvantage of both parents being taken away at an early age for various reasons. They are now in the protective arms of God and LaSenda orphanage, a Christian based establishment headed up by Steve and Pam English. www.twop.org Please click and take a look around.
I will be helping with everything I can! Photography, cooking, cleaning, painting, and playing with the children to name a few. I am so fortunate to be able to do this and gather more memories for my own personal hard drive... images only your mind can capture. I will also have images to share with the help of a camera.
I only have one week to help at LaSenda. Only one week of my time and energy. It is too short. I know because I also traveled to Northern Vietnam on a medical mission in 2008 with www.gsmedicalministry.org I wanted to do more after ~3 weeks and still do.
The mission with Good Samaritan Medical Mission changed my life and gave me a richness that cannot be obtained any other way. Giving is the richness. For the segment of time you give you get back exponentially. It is a "sense"about you only obtained by the experience... you can't measure it like counting a pile of money. No amount of money can buy that richness.
I hope to become one of the richest woman in the world.
I am attaching some photos or my riches captured on film. I can't attach them all because there is not enough room in cyberspace! There are many more in mind but those you will never see but you might get a "sense" from me...
Love to all of you!
LA
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Life is a Threshold
I truly believe there is a threshold to everything.
The definition of threshold:
(1) : end, boundary; specifically : the end of a runway (2) :the place or point of entering or beginning
Everything Has a Threshold
Literally, we experience it every time we walk through doorways or jump out of airplanes* and figuratively, when we try something new. At first it is very exciting. Awhile into it, it becomes a chore. But, if you make it through the threshold, the end becomes the beginning. It is like learning a new language. Day after day you practice and then what seems like "all at once" you become fluent. I watched this occur when my son learned to read. All of a sudden his ability took off and there was no looking back.
Maybe it all ties into fear. Fear holds us back. It keeps us from going through the entrance. Instead we stay at the end of the runway. Like walking along the shore instead of diving in and seeing all there is to see. "Leap and the net will appear."(A Zen Saying) *I don't know about a net but the parachute opened.
Fear of success maybe... If there is success, then what? Astronauts must feel like that after returning from a mission.
I take pictures of many different types of thresholds. Marriage, engagements, graduations, award ceremonies, babies and mile markers with children, launching of products, book jacket and CD covers ... Those images are a documentation of thresholds. Some are yours and some are mine.
Attached are what I believe to be very significant thresholds.
Have a beautiful weekend!
Friday, October 7, 2011
"Shells"
When walking on the beach in North Carolina last week I photographed a picture of these shells(1st image). The reminded me of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's. "Gift From the Sea." Beautiful inspiring book about life. She relates shells to the people in your life collected along the way. Life's treasures. Your shells.
We all have our shell collections. Mine gets bigger all the time. I am including pictures of some of my shells and other people's shells. Unfortunately, some shells only stay in our collection for a short while and others are there for a lifetime...
Have a beautiful day my shells!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Shoot4Change
L A Scott Photography is catching up on blogging! Here is an article featured at Shoot4Change. It is a group of photographers from around the world that report on stories that might go without notice but stories that need to be exposed! Click above and see an entry from L A Scott Photography after a trip to Nortern Vietnam as part of a medical mission in 2008. It is a glimpse into how that part of world since the Vietnam war.
Event Photography!!
Just recently did event photography for THBI Inc. Click on http://www.thbi.com/luminary-dinner-2011/ for examples of event photography!
Keep www.lascottphotography in mind for your event photography needs!
Friday, July 2, 2010
Natural Light!
I started a photo shoot this week using studio lighting and noticed the light coming in from the nearby window on a rainy day. I turned off all electronics and used natural light and a reflector for the attached images. I loved the results! Please take a look for yourself.
natural implies lacking artificiality and self-consciousness and having a spontaneousness suggesting the natural rather than the man-made world...
I stepped away from technology and used what was there. There is so much man made everything out there from cell phones, to computers and with computers of course there is Facebook and e-chat and Skype... Also, in reference to man made...how many of you would rather look at a landscape that was created by nature or a landscape created by man such as skylines? I choose nature....
What if we were to turn off all electronics in our world and begin to notice, once again, what is naturally there. I bet everything would become more vivid from the color of a sunset to the smell of the rain. Without the electronics there would be no compulsions to turn away from what is right there before us. Use nature as your headphones, your eyes to see beauty, and have lunch with a friend with the cell phones turned off...
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
Monday, June 7, 2010
Extremadura Spain and Birdwatching!
Birdwatching in Extremadura, Spain With Camera and Birdwatching Scope in Tow
Imagine This
www.turismoextremadura.com for all of you who know Spanish
For general information about tourism in Spain
As you all know I traveled to Spain to expose birdwatching possibilites in Extremadura for The Tourist Office of Spain in Chicago....
All the species there were new to these American eyes! Incredible! Bonelli's Eagle, Black Stork, White Stork, Griffin Vultures, Black Vultures, Great Bustards....only to name a few.
I want you all to see a bit of Spain through my eyes and with the aid of my camera. Let us start with the landscape....naturally beautiful all on its own--a sensory overload. Expectations exceeded!
I look at these photos and feel like I am still there. I hope they take you there.
Now that I have put you there....let us talk about the birdwatching adventure itself and everything in between. I will tell you about the different villages, parks visited, birds in each area complete with pictures!
With Just One Look
When I first arrived in Spain, I was met by my driver and off we went to Plasencia...a city in Extremadura~~
It is...A walled market city on the bank of the Jerte River. Plasencia has a historic quarter that is a consequence of the city's strategic location along the Silver Route, Ruta de la Plata. Since the 15th century, the noblemen of the region began to move to Plasencia, defining its current appearance. Palaces, ancestral homes and significant religious buildings make up the unique old quarter.
On route to the Hotel Alfonso in Plasencia I was pleasantly surprised that my birdwatching adventure had already begun. A beautiful white stork flew over...and then further on down the road there were storks sitting in very large nests on top of street lights, columns, and construction cranes. What a magnificant sight! Attached are two photos taken by a very talented artist, Nikolai Kraneis. To see his art go to birdsart.de. Attached are some of Nikolai's sketches!
When we arrived at the hotel and I was settled into my room, I looked out my window and was so pleased with my view. I could see exactly what the city was about with one look. Just as the description above states*. Take a look at the attached photos and see for yourself! I was also delighted to see what looked like a stork or perhaps a crane flying over the palace in one of the photos. Maybe one of my birdwatching friends on the trip can tell me for sure?
Spring is in the air...I have my own little birdshow going on here at home. The swallows are back and they are starting a family on my front porch for the third year in a row.
Rain in Spain
The beauty of Spain is that even if it rains it is beautiful!...even if it mainly stays on the plain;)
It did rain the first day of the trip quite a bit. But it was still a beautiful adventure. We visited beautiful Sierra de Gata and Camp De Gata. Sierra de Gata is a mountain range in Sistema Central, Spain. Camp De Gata is an ecologically friendly camp in the area with many activities including birdwatching for the entire family.
The first few photos are pictures along the way--beauty everywhere~~~ enjoy!
Also as part of along the way, we were fortunate to visit a beautiful walled city called
Robledillo de Gata. I searched my "experience" there to write a description and instead found this on their website. While reading, it took me back...
Robledillo is hidden at the bottom of a narrow valley, and embedded his own secret, aware - insconciente of his being, an original point to nearby villages, equally as beautiful, so silent. Gata Robledillo evokes gold or tin from the deep veins, the sound of waterfalls, the light that recreates itself in penumbra games, an air of intimate greens and, above all, the miracle of an architecture without architect overboard, in its apparent neglect, perfection. There is a viewpoint of nature, because the inside is: no distance, but consubstantiated merger. The terraces or "benches" exquisite enter the vision of the Arab tile overhang, the irregular sequence of slate walls, like playing cards cut in the dark tunnels of air flowing into the light. And the water is alive, not only in its sound, but its actual occurrence (across a footbridge over the stream, by following a sudden the meandering street that seems going to the end of the world ...)
I could not have said it better.
The remaining two photos are from Borbollon Reservoir. A beautiful body of water.
The target birds for that area were: Blue Rock Thrush, Rock Bunting, Crag Martin and Black Redstart. Birdwatching in Extremadura Spain!
I was the best saving for a rainy day I have ever had...
It is All About Lines
While in Spain and with many other European countries...there is so much texture and so many interesting lines. Some appear as a juxtaposition as with the first photo, some are simplistic and frame the subject as with the second photo... Some lead you through the doorway of a very warm inn(3rd photo) ...others might lead you down a road lined with beautiful lavender... Lines can also appear to be supportive as with the container of water. In the last photo, look carefully, the tree seems to be dividing the depth of field of two subjects doing the same thing...incredible.
Monfrague National Park and a Roman Bridge
On the third day in Spain we visited Monfrague National Park, Extremadura and were very fortunate to see many species of birds including vultures waking up in the morning(1st image), Black Storks nesting(2nd image) and many others such as Spanish Imperial, and Golden and Bonelli's Eagle.
We also visited the Bird Fair FIO The International Birdwatching Fair(see images of the town with cobblestone streets where the fair took place). It was quite the experience with so many bird enthusiasts in one area with the din of many languages from around the world. The UN of the bird world! I talked extensively with an organization that rehabilitates The Lesser Kestrel and was very impressed with what they were about. Go to: www.demaprimilla.org and leave Pepe Antolin a note. He is very passionate about the plight of the Kestrel. Thank you for that Pepe! Someday I hope to visit there!
We moved onto the town of Merida :
Established by the Romans in 25 B.C., Merida was the largest Roman city in the Iberian Peninsular. Merida retains an extensive collection of Roman ruins. See attached image of a bridge built by the Romans in Merida! Beautiful bridge...talk about infrastructure!
A Little Bit and A Lot of Everything
This is the part of a series about Spain. We walked on tour of Sierra de de los Pinos and a rural guesthouse Sierra de Mampar...so beautiful!
I loved the fact that there were small and big bits of beauty all around. It was a very windy day...red alert winds from a nearby hurricane that was stirring. We still managed to see many species of birds and beautiful landscape. I loved the opportunity to be with so many avid birdwatchers from around the world....(1st photo) Had to take it through the window of the bus but it shows you so much enthusiasm.
The pictures I have attached have bits of beauty ...an olive from one of the many, many olive trees .... a bulb flower(I found beauty in the bulb--take a look and see)... You can look at the little Bits that are all parts of the Everything in the 4th photo. You can zoom in on objects or zoom out...it is all beautiful...do it with your camera or do it with the naked eye. I do both.
L A Scott Photography is very proud to be a part of such a beautiful part of Spain through the camera lens and birdwatching scopes!
Sincerely,
Lori Ann
lascottphotography.com
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