This week, I'll continue the Take Your Best Shot series with a post on Using Leading Lines. Leading lines can be anything that helps to draw your eye into the photo. Roads, paths, railroad tracks, fence lines, shore lines and rows of windows are just a few things that make excellent leading lines. A lane through the woods draws you further into the scene A scene from an indoor shopping mall. The gridlines from the overhead skylight, as well as the lights lining the walls, all

This week I'm starting a new series called Take Your Best Shot. So often when we're taking pictures, we're in a hurry to catch the moment... and this is how it should be. Capturing the moment is far more important than getting the perfect focus or the most artistic composition. Never sacrifice the moment. But, there are many things we can do before we hit the shutter button that can make our pictures better. In this series, I'll look at 3 of them: Changing Your Point of View,

A few weeks ago I did a short blog post about the free, amazing photo editing app called Snapseed. I’m hoping you’ll download it and try it out. Also, I’ve done a video walkthrough of a Snapseed edit. You can see that here. Today, I wanted to give you an idea of how the various filters in Snapseed can enhance your iPhone photos in a magical way. Here’s the original photo… taken while riding along during one of my husband’s golf games. Here's that photo after being cropped an

Over the past year or so, I have been published several times in a publication called “Living the Photo Artistic Life- Pushing Photography Further”. This online magazine features artists from around the world, and is truly a treasure trove of stunning imagery. The images are all digitally enhanced and manipulated photographs. Some are edited on a computer using software such as Photoshop and Topaz, and others are edited on an iPad or iPhone using a variety of apps. The magazi