Preparing for Final Excercises 2023
After the Great American Anti-Social Quarantine, Finals Weekend returned to its traditions in 2022. This year, May 2023, was the second...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Reprising Favorite Views
This is the 100th post for the Virginia Photo Blog. This series of new photos reprises the first post of a walk around The Lawn. ...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Winter
The students are back. Summer is over. The nights are cool again, and the days are shorter. It's a changed atmosphere. In this post, ...
A Walk Around The Lawn: HDR Panoramas
There are lots of ways to make panoramas. You can scan your smart phone across a scene and let your phone do the rest. Or you can put...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Fall Colors
It's hard to make a Fall photo that has not been made before. Of necessity, Fall photos are mostly just documentary of the place they...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Morning
Morning light on The Lawn is completely different from afternoon light. That doesn't sound scientific, but it's true. Just walk around...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Overcast And Rainy
The grounds are mostly empty during the summer, and late afternoons are a good time to get clean photos of The Lawn - that is, photos...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Reunions
By early June, The University is mostly vacant. Graduation is over, and The Lawn is recovering from the thousands of graduates and...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Zeiss APO 135 mm
The Zeiss ZF.2 135 f/2.0 APO Sonnar is a superb lens. Often, there is a temptation to claim that a great photo is so good because of the...
A Walk Around The Lawn: Halloween 2018
Halloween 2018 was a warm Fall day. The leaves were still mostly on the trees. Trick or Treating on The Lawn started at around 5 pm, and...