Category: nature

COVID-19: Dear Photographers

Posted on by Mina Thevenin, LCSW

By Mina Thevenin, LCSW These are most trying times. As a society of international photographers we have not been witness to, nor experienced, such a global germ pandemic as that which we suffer now: coronavirus. In the coming weeks and months we must anticipate and prepare that each of us will be personally touched by this virus in some capacity. Life as we have known, is forever changed.Now is the time to live a lifestyle of prevention, of health and wellness—in mind, body, and spirit.Photograp

Eaglet 

Posted on by Mina Thevenin, LCSW

Dedicated to all our Louisville eagle watchers, especially Howard, Linda, Wendell, Lee, Marty, Dan and Bobbie, Don, and all of you who stopped by with cameras, scopes, binoculars and stories to share, some of whom I did not have a chance to meet. Our time together and with the eagles has meant so much. I thank you. The mother in me took you in.You know, the mother is that ancient stirring drawn down by the eons. The same way in antiquity she watches a bleary horizon centuries ago and tens of bi

Nature Photography in Black & White 

Posted on by Mina Thevenin, LCSW

We cannot casually pass by the complexions of nature and our landscapes once it is photographed in the old ways of monochrome. It is impossible. Because photographing nature in black and white shifts our experience. It enriches our relationship with nature. What we couldn’t grasp before—its complexities, its magnificence, its fragility—now resounds as a new and refreshed reverence. This is a gift. Once given, it is indelible upon psyche and within soul. Never to be less than. Always to be.Likewi

Photograph What You Love

Posted on by Mina Thevenin, LCSW

by Mina Thevenin What do you love to photograph? Might it speak volumes about yourself? Photographing our passions, the nuances of of family, friends, strangers, communities …the fine details of our everyday lives or vacation thrills…not that all of our photography subjects are happy ones. Even photographing sad, horrific, catastrophic images reveal passions.Photograph what you love.I photograph my passions of nature, of light in the bend of a tree, of fog across the water and the wisps of grey