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This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love

Fire

love changes changes everything
Love makes you fly, it can break your wings
Love changes changes everything
Love makes the rules, from fools to kings
Love changes, love changes everything

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am home again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am whole again

There's a light
A certain kind of light
That never shone on me
I want my life to be
Lived with you
Lived with you

God and man, no confessions
God and man, no religion
God and man don't believe in modern love

First attempt.

I'll be the weeping willow drowning in my tears
You can go swimming when you're here
I'll be the rainbow when the sun is gone
Wrap you in my colors and keep you warm
That's how strong my love is

Satellite's gone
Up to the sky
Things like that drive me
Out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV

We can’t fall any further
If we can’t feel ordinary love
And we cannot reach any higher
If we can’t deal with ordinary love

Open up my eyes and
Tell me who I am
Let me in on all your secrets
No inhibition, no sin
How deep is your love?

All I needed was the love you gave
All I needed for another day
And all I ever knew
Only you

You had a lot of moments that didn't last forever
Now you in the corner tryna put it together
How to love
How to love

Shall I stay?
Would it be a sin
If I can't help
Falling in love with you?

I cut my hair off in the road
I take my coat off dropped my load
I wipe my hands on the grass
Coz' I know that nothing ever lasts
And I said
I'm just a killer for your love

Male Ringed Plover, difficult to photograph as they are very well camoflaged. You get near, they fly! About 6" long.

They say it fades if you let it,
love was made to forget it.
I carved your name across my eyelids,
you pray for rain I pray for blindness

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am home again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am whole again

A composite I did from the wedding I shot on Saturday...please all you great wedding photographers go easy on me. I've never claimed to be one...just doing a favor for some friends

When love breaks down
The things you do
To stop the truth from hurtin' you
When love breaks down
The lies we tell,
They only serve to fool ourselves,

4th in series of 4 young couples from vicinity of Acropolis, Athens, Greece. She obviously is uplifted by his amorous advances.

Visionary couple look out over their future above the panorama of Athens, Greece, from atop Areopagus Hill, near the Acropolis. 3rd of a series of 4 couples.

Young couple locked into an extended French kiss atop the Areopagus Hill ignoring the panorama of Athens, Greece, laid out before them and the Acropolis behind them.

Based on the roses, he is obviously into her; however, her body posture says, "I am just your friend." This was one of a series of young couples seen around the Acropolis, Athens, Greece. Here they are seated on the crest of Areopagus Hill.

Went out and sat next to a local pond today. This guy came over and joined me for a snack.

I am a woman in love
And I do anything
To get you into my world
And hold you within
It's a right I defend
Over and over again
What do I do?

I need your love
I need your time
When everything's wrong
You make it right
I feel so high
I come alive
I need to be free with you tonight
I need your love

This was a beautiful couple to photograph........their love for each other came through beautifully

take my hand, take my whole life too
for I can't help falling in love with you

We live together in a photograph of time
I look into your eyes
And the seas open up to me
I tell you I love you
And I always will

Another shot of the Princess Cruise Line's Classic "Love Boat" heart shape dessert of chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, raspberry sauce, whipped cream and a mint leaf.

They say we can love who we trust
Ouuhh but what is love without lust?
Two hearts with accurate devotions
Ooh, and what are feelings without emotions?

<3 my lensbaby <3 my son.
Lyf Is Grand!

Love will come through
It's just waiting for you

Panama City Beach, Florida

This years love had better last
Heaven knows it's high time
I've been waiting on my own too long

At play.

A shot from a recent family shoot...this was sort of an impromptu capture of little "Liam" as we were switching "sets" for the family.
"Portrait" category

"Winginnn" *maniacal giggles*

Just because this little picket fence was dressed up so cute for the holidays...

To need a woman
You've got to know
How the strong get weak
And the rich get poor

A great shot of the love of two sisters..

Lyf. Is. Grand.
Isn't it just?

High light falls on his sweet face,
the early morning lovely moments,
hold tight my dear, hold tight.

Children love easily.
Children covet little crushes.

Children break each-others hearts 1000 times before adolescence...

Children, leave their loves in the playground after dark.

For me, these three shots show a progression of time. More than an instant, a moment. Which is defined as three human seconds, a moment.

Sometimes for me, a photo cannot stand alone. It needs more, and that's when I do sequences, and I do a LOT of them, but I don't always put them together like this. Together like this it's the story of this moment and not just an instant inside of the moment.

We keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing
Our hearts were never broken
And time's forever frozen stil

Love them always, every moment.

such concentration

my best friends daughter and my son are the cutest.

One of the more "fun" shots from an engagement shoot that I did at Pismo Beach in California
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This time you hold me up,
Instead of letting me bead, and fall,
to soak into the earth.

I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's gray and Wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
It's Friday I'm in love

They say that all poets must have and unrequited love
As all lovers must have thought provoking fears

Absolute elation.

Hilarious.

Lyrics By Bono of U2

Shot with a 50mm on a Canon 60D.
Negotiating with subjects is definitely something I've been having to do a lot recently and this has been one of my most memorable shots.
Looks easy right? Well, it really wasn't. I had my back pressed up against the wall and my arms stretched as high as possible in order to get the distance I have in this shot. And I'm the only person they've ever let into the actual bakery floor to shoot. I felt privileged.
ISO 400
f/2.8
1/180

A little edit with advice from the talented Miss Sarah Williams

For a little project, ended up LOVING it.

What a sweet boy he is,
melting and remolding my heart
creating a love so vast
I can't even understand

What is up, must come down.

Don't they?

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost

This photo actually makes me giggle. No edit, just a crop, came out of camera looking all dreamy.

Life. Is. Grand.
I couldn't ask for a better husband, nor for a better father to our wonderful son.
I couldn't ask for anything more to love.


This is the epitome of what my fall will be like this year. And I couldn't be happier!

That sweet boy face.

The mighty twins setting out to guide the big boys into safety

I had the honor of taking pictures in Arlington National Cemetery last year while a friend visited a grave. I watched a group of people visit a grave with a woman kissing the headstone before leaving. It is customary to leave a token on top of a grave stone marking one's visit to a lost loved one. Sometimes a rock is left or sometimes it can be a personal token that has meaning. I walked over to the grave site and took some pictures. I reached out to a Facebook page honoring Lance Corporal Eric Ward but I got no response. It was a moving moment for me.

Shuswap Lake BC

Experimenting with light graffiti. Had to express the beautiful stars on that lake.

Love the dramatic contrasts...

nikon d5100
F/4.5
1/500 sec
iso-800
70mm

Those baby blues.

My baby sister and her furbaby Blu. Blu says "Maahm... Sthaap"

This is a flower shot i made at the beginning of spring 2013 in a floral shop in York PA. Lighting was great,the colors popped like fireworks on the 4th of July.!

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Boddin Point, Montrose, Angus, Scotland.
An old Salmon fishing station which has been unused and left to the elements since the Seventies.
Who was Sandra ? She and the Boat are two ladies lost to time but, i'm sure both were loved in their day.

Make:Canon
Model:Canon EOS 40D
ISO Speed:ISO-100
Shutter Speed:1/250 sec
Aperture:f/9.0
Exposure Bias:-1/1 EV
Max Aperture:f/4.0
Metering Mode:Pattern
Flash:Flash On, Flash Fired
Focal Length:17 mm
ColorSpace:sRGB
Lens:EF17-40mm f/4L USM

Candid shot of an Aunt with her niece. The happiness/love in her face was just beautiful!

Snooper's Rock, Chattanooga, TN, at Sunrise with my gracious guide's trail dog, Ella. This is located in Prentice Cooper State Park. The heavy fog bank is hovering above the winding Tennessee River.

Still from 360 Lake Toba International Hunting Event

Sometimes I get down on myself over photography...I think all photographers do at some time or another. But, it's days like today that I really remember why I love doing what I do. This little lady was so fun to work with, and even though baby shoots are never easy, this one felt like a breeze. Her mommy was kind enough to allow me to share some images.

Probono (sortof) shoot for this little family as repayment for helping me with my new body. Many more to go!

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canon 6D
canon 70-200mm 2.8
f/9,1/200,iso100

It's rare in life to find that completely unconditional and unreserved love that makes life so much sweeter...I have found that the kind of love given by an animal is special in that respect. This is my "Winston"; sweet, kind, beautiful, and ever at my feet, no matter where I go.
Nikon D7100, Lensbaby CP DG 50mm f/5.6, 1/125, ISO 200

One of my favorite flowers is the lilac tree, I had to get a macro of the new buds that were coming in. The smell is outstanding and for my birthday this year, my hubby got me a new lilac bush for the front yard.

cam:canon6D
lens:canon 55-250mm + extension tube (3 section)
aperture:f/11
shutter speed: 1/200
ISO:100
edited in PS express

cam:canon 6D
lebs:canon 70-200 2.8 is ll
aperture:f/2.8
shutter speed:1/100
ISO:300
edited in snapseed/PSexpress

freelensing in reverse macro with Lensbaby velvet 56...
and i do love rose ...

I love bokeh...all kinds of bokeh, and selective focus.
this is one of the reason that I adore Lensbaby lenses so much.
much of the bokeh were captured in camera and not a whole lot of editing.
colours rendered from the glass is pretty as well...

my good friend and i love Nutella...so she challenged me to make a picture with Nutella...taken earlier this year :D

Intentionally breaking the "rules" of composition here and putting all of the action at the edges of the frame. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, but it's different and I like that. Hope you do too.

Anybody managed to get a full heart with courting swans, this is the best I have managed so far

Canon EOS 20D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM
1/250s f/6.3 at 122.0mm
iso100

Featured on the biggest TV station in Denver as their Facebook cover page, and profile picture for a month.

Prints are available here: http://village.photos/members/Scott-Smith-Photography/Sunsets/1247/Loveland-Sunset-I

Another angle from the lake in Loveland, Colorado.

http://village.photos/members/Scott-Smith-Photography/Sunsets/11337/Loveland-Sunset-III

Mute Swan pair on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal

I don't often do HDR like this, but I wanted to highlight the word LOVE

Covington, Virginia