Snow Egret Photo, Arizona Highways Magazine

Wow, I can't believe it, Arizona Highways Magazine used my Snowy Egret photo on their blog!  This is the second time they have used one of my photos!!!  So happy and honored!

Here is the link to the article, https://www.arizonahighways.com/blog/phoenix-suburbs-get-high-marks-first-time-homebuying, and below is my photo.

Two of My Photos Were Selected!

OMG!  I'm so honored to have one of my photos selected for the Arizona Highways Magazine Friday Fotos theme, but 2!  Wow!!!

Each week Arizona Highways Magazine Facebook page has a theme for anyone to enter their photos. They announce on Wednesday the theme and you have until Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. to enter up to two photos.

I normally enter two and if I'm lucky they will pick one.  This week they picked two!  I'm doing the happy dance!  I'm sure it was an oops but I'm still so happy!!!

This weeks theme was the Colors of the White Mountains.  Below are my two submissions both taken at Fool Hollow Lake when we visited the Lake during Spring Break this year.

The links below the photos will take you to my photos on the Arizona Highways Magazine Facebook page.  Check out all photos when you have a chance.  Our State of Arizona is so beautiful especially the White Mountain area.

Great Blue Heron Ready for Take Off

Beaver Having a Snack While Swimming

The Time Arizona Lost a National Monument

I was honored today, Arizona Highways used my photo of Papago Park in their article about Arizona losing a National Monument.  The article is about how Papago Saguaro National Monument, created in 1914, lost it's National Park status and became Papago Park in 1930.  It was the very first park in the US to loose it's National Park status.

https://www.arizonahighways.com/blog/time-arizona-lost-national-monument.

I won!!!

I'm so excited to be one of the winners of the photo contest by Arizona Game and Fish and Arizona Highways Nature Photography Competition.

My Least Bittern photo will be the month of April in the Nature Photography Calendar for 2017.

There were over 180 photographers that entered and over 1900 photos submitted.  I know I submitted around 30 myself :-)

I am so honored to be among such great photographers and to also have one of my cottontail photos as an honorable mention.

Interested in buying a 2017 wildlife calendar? Arizona Game and Fish welcomes new subscribers to Arizona’s award-winning magazine about wildlife and outdoor recreation. The regular price is $8.50 for six issues (one year), but through Dec. 31, subscriptions are on sale at $7 for seven issues. People who subscribe by Dec. 31 will be sure to receive the calendar issue. The calendar issue is also sold at all Game and Fish offices for $3 starting in mid-November.

If you can't make it by the Phoenix or Mesa Game and Fish offices you can print off an order form and mail it in. More info on their website, https://www.azgfd.com/Media/Magazine.

Here is my winning photo and honorable mention photo.

Winning Photo - Least Bittern

Photo taken at the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch

Honorable Mention - Cottontail Rabbit

Photo taken at the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch

What a Week!!!!

This week has been super exciting.  I have been submitting a photo every day to the Arizona Highways Magazine in hopes that one would be featured as one of their "Photos of the Day".  It finally happened, one of my photos that I submitted in October was the Photo of the Day for November 28, 2015!!!  Here's the link to the Photos of the Day Archives, http://www.arizonahighways.com/photography/photo-archive.

The photo is one I took at my first Pow Wow I went to thanks to my friend Linda.  She called me one Saturday morning and asked me if I'd like to go to the Pow Wow in Mesa and take some great photos.  Who knew at that time if would turn out to be a great photo opportunity.  Another photo I took that weekend was featured on Arizona Highways Facebook page.  The them was "red" and I submitted one of the dancers from the Pow Wow in a red costume.

Than I receive an email Sunday night that my Snowy Egret photo that I submitted to BirdWatching Magazine website is selected for Photo of the Week!!!  Here's the link to the my Snowy Egret photo, http://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/blog/2015/11/30/photo-of-the-week-snowy-egret/.

I'm on Cloud Nine, this is so exciting to have photos featured on well known magazine websites so early in my photography career.  I've only been taking photos since January 2015 and I still have so much to learn.  I can't wait to see what happens next.

Here are the photos that have been featured.

Photo of the Day

 

Arizona Highways Facebook Page - theme Red

Snowy Egret - BirdWatching Website

Can't Believe it, Another of My Photos Featured On Arizona Highways Facebook Page!

Two weeks in a row I have had a photo selected for the Friday Foto theme on the Arizona Highways Facebook Page.  This week's theme was "red".

I submitted 2 photos and the below photo was selected. 

I'm so excited and honored to have one of my photos featured again; still dancing on Cloud Nine :-)

Photo Featured on the Arizona Highway Magazine Facebook Page!!!!!

Exciting news!!!!  One of my photos was featured on the Arizona Highways Magazine Facebook page!  Every Friday they have a "Friday Fotos" theme were photographers can upload 2 photos for that weeks theme.  Last Fridays theme was Favorite Places in Arizona.

I submitted two photos and the below photo was selected along with 66 other beautiful photos throughout Arizona.  Here's the link to view all the featured photos, https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153074456076852.1073741902.85397536851&type=3

 

Photo was taken at the Riparian Preserve in Gilbert, AZ