Sharon shared some still life/storytelling images this month. Her series of a bowl of limes aging over months during the Covid lockdown are storytelling still life images and are relatable. Her muted, wonderful wilted flower image reminds me of a favorite New Order album cover or a renaissance still life painting – beautiful.

Sharon shared some sporting images from the family album and as usual a humorous image of the family pet ‘enjoying’ the pool.

With the recent wildfires around SoCal, protecting your photographic memories is important. Sharon, during a recent potential evacuation order, found some old photos she printed when she was in college. She photographed the old matted prints using her cell phone camera and shared these wonderful images. Protecting and preserving your photography is something we photographers need to focus on.

Sharon has a flare capturing images with wit or that tell a story or pose a question. Her “below” eye-level photos this month do just that and they always spark conversation. Her “above” images of the Blue Angels fly-by taken by her iPhone show the wonderful image quality that cell phone has. Freezing a Blue Angels jet so you can read the wing is an impressive example of computational photography. The images an iPhone can capture, whether its freezing time or long exposures of Comet A3, never ceases to amaze me. Here are her photos: