by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#12. Ivan Richardson The Richardsons happen to live down the road a piece from us here in upstate New York. Ivan is one of boys the same age as our kids and they are all dear friends. And they have a family of foxes that live near their barn that has a second floor...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#13. Nikki Melcher-Wagner Catching air on a sled is one of the great thrills of winter sports. I totally love the look on this little girl’s face. She is one step away from putting out her hand and touching the face of God. ( A reference to John Gillespie Magee’s poem...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#14. Kellie Anderson Llewellyn I know I’ve said this so many times I sound like a broken record, but I wish someone had said it to me back in the old days. The very best sports photographers see the little life moments that happen on the edges of the game, the moments...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#15. Jennifer Smart A good background is like a good bass line. It supports the melody and keeps everything grounded. The mural behind our subject reinforces everything about the woman but says it in a very different way. Together the two become one and you have what...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#16. Cori Mayfield In yet another chapter of just exactly how upside down our world is, this is smoke and flame on the West Coast. Seriously, just how much can people take? Those of us thousands of miles away send our condolences and heartfelt prayers. It’s just...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#17. Arlett Sailer Gerde The alignment needs to be perfect and it certainly is here. Can’t you just picture, or hear, Arlette directing her subjects so that everything is perfectly Picasso. It’s really a wonderful idea and one of those, gosh, I wish I would’ve thought...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#18. Diane Steever Anderson Every year Grandpa Tracy measures all of the grand kids to see how much they’ve grown. It’s all recorded there on the wall of his barn. What a lovely end of year tradition that is. Diane, a grandmother on the other side of the family,...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#19. Erin K. Crouse It’s little brother learning from big brother about the world. Lesson One: Toys are good. (They are.) Lesson Two: Mom is a good photographer. (She is.) This picture works so well because it is stripped to its most basic essentials. The little guy...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#20. Kristin Pehl Kristin said she had no words for this photograph. She couldn’t describe the feeling. Only the picture would do it for her. What a little oasis of calm and serenity this photograph is. I hope all of you Americans can experience that today on this...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#21. Tammy Thomas Finding a building you love and can keep coming back to can be one of photography’s most rewarding self assignments. There is so much to be learned about photographing the same subject at different times of the day in different light.Many of you...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#22. Molly Hoover A couple of things about our British friends. First, they know very little about real heat. (I’m a graduate of the University of Missouri.) Secondly, anyone who drinks their beer warm isn’t going to have the decensy to cool off their watermelon,...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#23. Mercy Shinsky It’s always fun to share a little winter chill in the middle of the summer. This was taken in Yellowstone a while back and by all the by laws of Fan Photo of the Day that’s perfectly acceptable. At this particular moment snow has the ability to take...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#24. Joan McCarthy Grooming can take a hit after weeks of home schooling. (I mean that in the nicest possible way. She is unbelievably cute!) But Joan had the good sense to leave it all alone and just push the button. I’ve said it so many times and I have been...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#25. Tina Auten It’s grandfather and grandson reading Harry Potter out loud; Tina and her husband had him for the first month of the quarantine and they read a bit every day. I wonder how long it’s going to take before every single photograph, regardless of subject,...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#26. Brandi Opper Booth What’s the movie where the heroes are hiding right out in the open? This is a lot like that. You have to look pretty carefully but it’s completely worth it. I loved this, Brandi. You can leave feedback on this photo below then click "next"...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#27. Susan Marsh This just in from the Real Life Department. Susan, I think this is just fantastic, It’s a wonderful piece of photo journalism. My now deceased, famous photo journalism professor would have gone gaga over this. Storytelling at its best. (He also would...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#28. Marilyn Tschorke If I could give you all a little Valentines gift, first and foremost it would probably be an appreciation for good lighting. Then, secondly, it would be anticipating when the good stuff is going to happen. That is, expecting the good moments to...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#29. Rachel Hardesty This picture had to be taken with a phone. I know why some of you will think it’s a bit sad but it’s such a sign of the times it makes me smile. The angle is just right. The camera is in exactly the right place to tell the story. The background...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#30. Robert Rear I sort of don’t know where to begin. This picture is just world class. The structure of the feathers and the shape of the wings is just amazing. (Bob used an extremely fast shutter speed to freeze all of this action, probably something like 1/2000 of...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
#31. Rhonda Cooper SanFilipo This was taken a year ago at Rhonda’s son’s Boot Camp graduation. She put it up now because he’s posted and won’t be home for a while…gone for Christmas. I’m not going to say anymore except that that this is really a nice photograph....