Spring flowers are beautiful and add so much to your outside space. Here the camera is turned away from portraits of people and being pointed at beautiful outdoor plants. Last year I tried being a junior farmer. Tried growing tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, and watermelons. I know it’s supposedly easy to do but it didn’t workContinue reading “Spring Flowers – Plant Pictures”
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Maryland Portrait Photographer for Headshots, Family Portraits and more!
I’m Lonnie Dawkins, a Maryland Portrait Photographer ready to take family portraits for you and your family. I create beautiful wall presentations, large prints, digitals, and photo albums. Images I have taken over the last twenty plus years have turned into priceless family portraits treasures. While I cover Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC; I amContinue reading “Maryland Portrait Photographer for Headshots, Family Portraits and more!”
Carnival lights at night
The lights and colors of the carnival brighten the sky and draw one to the gates on a hot summer night. This carnival is set up about once a year in a huge parking lot that also hosts a Walmart. I haven’t been inside the carnival in years but I don’t that anything inside could beContinue reading “Carnival lights at night”
Family Photo Sessions create Lifetime Treasures
By Lonnie Dawkins I had the pleasure of photographing this wonderful family. The session started in the family home and then we took a stroll to a nearby park. I was Kelly and Matt’s wedding photographer also so it was nice to reconnect and see the family growth. Aren’t the children beautiful? Lonnie Dawkins PhotographyContinue reading “Family Photo Sessions create Lifetime Treasures”
Photo: Alaskan Summer-Views from the train-Anchorage to Seward
A ride aboard the Alaska Railroad from Anchorage to Seward is one that I would highly recommend. It provided me with one of the most exciting and unbelievable opportunities to make pictures. In every direction that I pointed my camera there was something breathtaking to capture.
Khemistry: Tattoos
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Everyone loves a beautiful cake. Half eaten cakes as art.
I think that beauty can be found in half eaten cakes as well. There is something about the contrast betweeen the touched and the untouched.
Photography Tip No. 1 Only show your best work.
Showing better pictures requires editing. Nobody but Grandma wants to see all your pictures. Just show only what you consider to be your winners!
The Scurlock Studio Exhibit at Smithsonian a Must-See
Have you heard of Addison Scurlock and his sons George and Robert? Very few people have and that is a shame! In my opionion the Scurlocks are among the greatest American photographers PERIOD!! The Scurlocks photographed EVERYONE during their time which spanned the early 1900s to around 1994.