KODAK MOMENT of the Day

This is a shot of a vintage carousel horse at the Glen Echo Park in Maryland. The US Park Service restored this beautiful 1921 Dentzel carousel after they took over the closed amusement park back in the sixties. It is still running and open to the public during the summer season each year.

The many soaring gulls on the beach at Hilton Head, SC symbolized the carefree days we spent there on our summer vacation. The gulls became very friendly when our sons began eating popcorn on the beach. Our family beach vacation was a magical time pursuing simple pleasures together. This photo will always recalls those special, sun-soaked days.

June is typically recital month in our area. I captured this image of this young performer with a single strobe. I think the 'rimming' effect of the light accentuates her form and her positioning quite nicely. Dance is a beautiful expression but when combined with light, the result is divine!

I was experimenting with water, bubbles, oil, light and color. I like the way it came out. Surreal.

Bella was loving the simplicity of jumping in the puddles after the rain. Sometimes we forget how simple happiness can be :)

This was taken a few weeks before new year on Gulf Air , i had recently moved to Bahrain after living in Dubai for 12 years and this shot was during my flight back to Dubai after staying in Bahrain for only 3 weeks because i missed all my friends.

My dog Lily loves summer in the Rocky Mountains. Here she is relaxing in a field of wild flowers during one of our hikes. Not only is she sweet to look at but the scenery is nice as well.

This photo was taken at the Wings over Houston Air Show in October of 2010.

I took this picture in Dubois, Wyoming at the CM Ranch in July 2013. I love the engergy in the image with the horses and water.

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This picture was taken from damodor river side.I saw some boys are enjoy and playing their childhood life in the autumn season then I captured it thought my camera.This was a wonderful moment.

Ponytail Falls is on one of the nicer trails along the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon as the hike starts off at Horsetail Falls, which is also quite attractive. You then traverse a hill and through varying forest before hearing and then seeing Ponytail Falls. The cave behind the falls makes for an interesting though slippery place to explore. The top of the cave is the remnants of an ancient lava flow and the bottom softer soil which was eroded by the falls. Including my son is in the foreground and my wife exploring very close to the falls allowed me to give some scale to this photo.

a cute japanese little girl dressing as a geisha its in gion district, kyoto, japan

Central Coast is my 5year old boy favorite drive. is only 30Min from our house, but always make us feel happy and relax!!

Our three cats have taken over the treehouse in the backyard and made it their own lookout.

This is Lucy and she is such a poser. I was dog sitting her and she let me do whatever I wanted to her for taking photos....there were many props but this turned out to be my favorite...

I admire the patterns in nature and found this succulent plant to be an exeptional specimen with it's bold red tips and swirly appearance. Taken at Harmony Hill Gardens and submitted as a sign of spring

I took this at the beach, november 2010. it took so well(: No editing or anything

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It?s hard to resist going through the tunnel though Battle Rock, in Port Orford, Oregon... when the tide is low. Especially during the early morning, when the interior of the tunnel is better illuminated. November 14, 2011.

Taken on Calabas Reef in Bonaire, N.A. I love the delicate color and texture of this photo.

This picture is special to me because it becomes an expression of what is most important in life - freedom and peace of mind. I took this picture two months ago in the Dominican Republic. It is a little piece of paradise. A vacation indeed!

On a family vacation/cruise earlier this month, our grandson, Daniel, treated himself to a refreshing splash in the "H2O Zone" aboard the "Freedom of the Seas". He would have us believe that the photo portrays his natural halo... NOT!

Alaska trip. I was analyzing which direction i should go.

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This picture is part of a project, started in 2011 in Mekele, Ethiopia and called Los ojos que no ven, Eyes that do not see. www.losojosquenoven.net

Thank you for Kodak Portra 400 this time. The best color negative film ever created.

This picture was taken in Madison, WI. Its the underside of Hwy 30. I like the abundance of lines in the picture. The path to this spot was very normal rail and road stuff. Then all of a sudden this little oasis of a place popped into my vision. Hence the shangri la name.

Took several tries to get the grasshopper to stay. Several times he jumped on my eyelid.

Took this photo about 6am in Bosque del Apache in November. It sounded like a freight train going by.

The holy city of Varanasi also know as "The City of Temples". There are several religious rituals that are seen throughout the day. This shot was made during the early Morning Aarti (Prayer) in Dasaswamedh Ghat in Varanasi (Banaras). The silhouette and the changing colors of the morning sky made me feel at peace.

The picture is taken 2013, July.

We have a koi pond that is the source of endless fascination for our Airedales. Here, two of them (Zac and Scout) are considering taking the plunge. Taken 12/31/12

In the Patriarch Grove in the White Mounatins California where the ancient bristlecone pines are found. It is so dark that the milky way is visible

Akasha, a three-year-old Bengal tiger, is the world's only female underwater diving tiger and resides at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif. I was asked to take some new photos of the tigers swimming underwater and by chance the lighting and conditions were just right. I took this image in May, 2011 and it has proven to be quite popular. My favorite subject matter to shoot are tigers.

I liked the rust and texture that remained on this unrestored 1936 Ford. I love listening to the stories people tell about when they owned a particular car from their teenage years.

A wonderful sunset in Weston, Florida

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I was on a pier, on lake Michigan in Chicago, and I was looking out unto the city. It's a beautiful place to stand and look out on, well there it was, the perfect picture!

The Hmong are a hilltribe living in northern Thailand in the area of Chiang Mai. The Kids were at the entrance to a temple to entertain tourists.

This spider was hanging outside my backdoor in Pennsylvania, USA for several days before I took a photo. It wasn't until I uploaded it did I see incredible patterns on his underside!! What started out as pic of a spider turned into a photo that I love!!

The green iguana is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard native to Central, South America, and the Caribbean. It can also be found in the United States in South Florida, Hawaii, and Texas ? Photographed in the tropical gardens at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida ? flamingogardens.org

After a morning of pouring rain, the sky cleared and we were able to feast our eyes on the River Arno in all its splendid beauty. October 2011

I love how this turned out.. it's a wonderful way to portray family generations. This was the perfect family to do this with, the resemblance is so strong... A true treasure.

This cute resident of Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina, looked like he was playing coy, while sitting in this tree.

This image was taken at Emerald Bay on Lake Tahoe, CA. It was a beautiful dawn morning. The Bay is really calm early in the morning.

The World Trade Center Memorial Lights taken last year. Let us never forget.

Connecticut beaches in September are at their best, still warm, less crowded. My grandson found his first piece of sea glass....

White Ibis get ruffled over differing opinions regarding space turf along the shoreline of Lake Jesup located in Seminole County, Florida.

Took it many years ago on the mall in Washington D.C. It was a tall structure that you had to get under to see the star. Only by looking at it in a different aspect did the true beauty of the subject emerge.

Dahlia's were in bloom at the Mendocino Botanical Gardens in Fort Bragg, California. Mendocino is a magical coastal location and these flowers are right at home blooming in every color of the rainbow and every shape found in nature.

This picture is special to me because it is one of the memories of our trekking that me and my friends did. This picture was taken on the way to Dudhsagar water falls in State of Goa, India. It was taken when were crossing a rail tunnel. Since trekking is associated with travel.

Im very new to photography and this was my first picture in my SFO trip. Picture was taken in 17 mile drive spanish bay in california.

Picture of a friendly squirrel that got close. Picture taken in a park in Manhattan. It's special to me because I had never been so close to a squirrel before

i love this picture because it is so bright.. this picture was taken last fall down the road from our home...i love how sunflowers instinctively face the sun

A portrait of my beautiful fourth child Luna.

Apples in the Fall make for colorful subjects.

This resident of Riverbanks Zoo, in Columbia, South Carolina, USA had his skin colored by a coating of the everpresent, Carolina, red clay. I found the shapes and textures of his body to make a very interesting subject.

On a leisure bike ride in the Netherlands outside the city of Groningen I came across a field of lovely small horses. This was my favorite.

This was taken in my back yard . I love the vibrant colors and unique look .These Passion Flowers are nature at it's best.