By Nancee Rostad | Art & Creativity
While visiting my favorite beach town, I was delighted by the sight of an old-fashioned cottage garden designed to lead one to the entrance of an equally charming store. Billowing mounds of white daisies, stunning vintage roses, pert pansies, and raspberry-hued hydrangeas filled the 15 x 20 ft. area with color & beauty. […]
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By Nancee Rostad | How-To
On reflection, I’ve realized that nearly all of my most successful photography has been the result of serendipity. No planning or preparing for a trip to a faraway place in order to capture a particular iconic image. If a trip has been planned, and even if I expect to photograph one or another subject, […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
At the end of a winter trip to Japan, I found myself looking at cherry trees in full peak bloom. Mind you, this was on February 22, 2023 – February! Which is at least several weeks before the blooms open in other parts of Japan. Luckily, I was in Kawazu, in Shizuoka Prefecture, which […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Opinion
When an empty beach, a retreating tide and a brand new iPhone jumpstart a photographic reboot. In early April I was finally able to get to my favorite beach town in southern Oregon. Eager to try out my new iPhone 13 Pro, the first morning found me making the short journey to a stretch […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Travel Photography
The Grand Escalante National Monument, a little known and under-visited natural area in southern Utah, is my favorite place to photograph red rock formations. At an impressive 2,938 square miles, the monument has room to roam, as well as to truly experience the natural wonders of the area, without the crowds. Grand Escalante was […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
Even though I’ve traveled to nearly every part of Oregon over the years, I’d never ventured into the south-east corner of the state. A little research yielded scant information about the area, but two things did spark my interest: a dry lakebed and wild horses. In mid-October 2018 I chose to spend several nights at […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Art & Creativity
It’s amazing how much the coronavirus pandemic has dampened my ordinarily good spirits and, thus, my creativity. Each day of persistent uncertainty has drug on in a most alarming way, so much so that I had to have a firm talk with myself about picking up my camera and taking a few photos. Sort of […]
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By Nancee Rostad | How-To
This morning while gazing out the laundry room window as I folded towels, my eye was caught by the interesting shadows, reflections, and light patterns on the wet asphalt outside my home. Folding abruptly stopped, camera was located, and the shooting commenced. This is how it typically happens for me. Some might call […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Travel Photography
There are certain places in the world which pull you back time and again, no matter how hard you try to resist. For me, the list is long, so I’ll just mention a few: Paris; Edinburgh, Scotland; Santa Fe, NM; Tofino, BC; Bandon, OR; and now, Kyoto, Japan has joined the list. After my second […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Art & Creativity
The following is a true (if somewhat dramatized!) example of my typical creative process. I’ll set the scene: Kyoto, Japan 2017 with a group of photographers, bucketing rain, wind blowing, a beautiful autumn garden, dripping & flowing water everywhere, 2.5 hours allotted to shoot this place, at this time. For me, it was a nightmare […]
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