Walking in Beauty: My Favorites
By Glenn B. Jenks Occasionally a friend will ask me which of my tens of thousands of photos are my favorites and why. To me every one of my photos has a story and the story of a photo has as much to do with how I feel about each photo. And sometime the photos with at the best story are not technically the best photos and vice versa. Having said all of that here are a few of my favorites and the stories that go with them The tiny...
Walking in Beauty in the Ancient City of Machu Picchu
By Glen B. Jenks Buried deep in the Andes Mountains of Peru is one of the best known and least understood of the cities of the ancient world. In 1911 when this city was first discovered it was believed to be the ancient lost city of the Incas called, Vilcabamba. It was built around 1450 to hold approximately 1000 people. It eventually became clear that what had been discovered was not Vilcabamba, but the city of Machu Picchu. a...
Walking in Beauty: North Rim, Grand Canyon
By Glenn B. Jenks The Grand Canyon is without a doubt one of, if not the, most visited site in the State of Arizona. Whenever I am there I hear the symphony of foreign languages as people stand in awe of this majestic piece of nature. I am surprised, however, at the number of native Arizonans who have never been to the Canyon. In fact, I am the father of one such person. It isn’t that these people don’t want to see it. It is just...
Walking in Beauty: Reflections
By Glen B. Jenks Anything that is beautiful becomes twice as beautiful when we see it reflected off of some clear, shiny surface. Actually, reflections are all around us most of the time, but we only pay attention to a small fraction of them. Reflections can be found in many places in addition to the obvious places, like mirrors or water. They can be found in the sunglasses of a friend you are talking to, on the wall of a building...
Walking in Beauty: Captured by Beauty
Walking in Beauty By Glenn B. Jenks Most of the photographs I take are carefully thought out before the shutter button is snapped. The light must be right the background must be acceptable and the camera settings. the aperture, ISO, and shutter speed have to be right to get the effects I want. The photographers’ mantra is “MAKE photographs, don’t just take photographs”. But every photographer has had the experience of having beauty...
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