Donna Leombruno (hocusfocusd70)'s Photos

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Hello!

Welcome to my gallery. I love taking pictures and do so probably daily. I have one of my cameras with me at all times and there is no shortage of things to photograph. I've amassed quite a collection of images along the way so, if the weather is not conducive to shooting, I've been known to spend a good part of the day playing in Lightroom.
After looking through my own galleries, I think nature photography is more my passion. I'm very much tuned into color and usually that's what grabs my attention. There are times I shoot with a more creative end-product in mind and other times I shoot it just because it's there. Luckily, I live in a beautiful, somewhat rural, somewhat coastal area of New England and am very fortunate to have so many gorgeous locations and landscapes to shoot all year round.

So, feel free to browse. You may purchase any photos you wish directly from this site. There is no need to contact me, though if you wish to, I can be reached at hocusfocusd70@aol.com
If you choose, you may leave comments (and I love them!) in the designated areas. I appreciate an honest critique.
Enjoy, and thanks for visiting!

Most Popular Photos

Autumn Symphony #3......
I went out fog hunting yesterday and came home with this instead....and 124 others! The creek had trees over-hanging and every time the breeze blew, more drops would fall off the leaves and onto the water. The swampy looking bubbles are actually the water droplets, in varying stages of hitting the water's surface. The color is the foliage in the background. The original shot is very similar to this with the exception of luminance. The younger generation (my kids and all their friends) really like it. I'm kinda fond of it, too.

Update:
This image won me a first place in the Ellison Center for the Arts (Duxbury Art Association) Annual Winter Juried Show. The opening was February 6th and it was a blast to attend as a winning photographer.
After almost a week of no sun, lots of rain and not feeling well, I finally felt a little inspired to get out there and shoot. It felt good. There's still plenty of color out there. You just have to look a little harder and think more on the macro level. I've actually been in a funk with fall being over. It is by far my most favorite season, especially for photography. I'm sad that it's over. I'll keep trying to squeeze color out of my world. Because of bad eyesight, shapes and color are mostly what I see. Anyway...the sun is returning today! Have a great day.

A little Monet to brighten your day!
Such fun I had yesterday at a swamp on the side of the road. The flower head is a fading dahlia from the Cotley Hill shoot. This is not processed either, just cropped. The brilliant color is the reflection of the surrounding swamp growth which is very colorful when shot this way. The one I'm working on for printing will be cleaned up.

The Nashua River, Pepperell, Ma

No matter where their little feet may take them, how big they may grow or how dirty they get along the way, as parents, these are the feet we need to nurture.....as eventually, they will walk right out that door.
Happy Father's Day!

The edge of the woods at sunset. This is a single exposure with the blur effect achieved by flipping the camera up. Then brought into editing for slight color saturation.
We got some snow last night! I'm heading out for sunrise snow pictures! Hope you're all having a great week end!

Bloom where you're planted!

More swamp fun. If it weren't for the mosquitos, I could sit here all day watching these droplets hit the water. It's sort of like staring at a fish tank.
Here is a wide angle view of the swamp at this time of year.~~~~http://hocusfocusd70.smugmug.com/Photography/Dailies-Alternates/8095536_9i72c#674318026_N9m8k

Well, I've learned something important this week end and I'll pass it on to you, in case you want to get into doing "shows"----don't confuse "Art Shows" with "Craft Fairs". This Holiday craft fair, as large it is, is not the venue for me. I did sell things and I've paid for my 2-day booth already but, I had higher hopes. But when the customers can buy "things" very cheaply for gifts from someone else, they will. My booth was crowded and I spent most of the day talking to a lot of very nice people, both young and old. I even made some new friends! And for that I am thankful. I went through most of my business cards (~300!) so I'm sure I'll get some calls from some of those folks when their need arises. I kept hearing all day about what a great eye I have and to keep it up so, off I go again today.....
When I got out of there yesterday, I was at the top of hill, overlooking the Bourne Bridge with a gorgeous sunset unfolding. I stopped at the nearest store to ask a local where the best spot to take in the sunset would be. He directed me to Monument Beach. So this is where I spent the next hour and a half, crashed in the sand, me and my camera....
Have a great day!

To the first day of school and friends to share it with.....cheers!

Finally figured out a place to stake myself for decent hummingbird shots. They come to my feeder in the back yard all day long but, who really wants to see another amateur picture of a hummingbird, never mind at a bright red feeder. Well, sorry but, you get one more. At least there's no feeder.

Ocean Spray sunset
A little more abstract fun. These geese were all milling about at sunset. I blended a few images together to achieve this effect.

November has got to be the worst month for a nature photographer, coming off the heels of September and October. I'm still always on the look-out for color, though. It's out there, sometimes subtle like yesterday's door shot and other times hiding in plain sight, like this. In this image, I especially like the indigo in the middle.
Have a great day!

I went to a photography exhibit yesterday. Some very nice images in there for sure. There was a lilac bush next to where I parked my car so I snapped off two little bunches and brought them home. I had no vase that small so I used my creamer (that I painted myself) to hold them. I set them in the window sill so the fragrance would blow around a bit. I'm sure you can imagine all that happened after that...

This was taken at one of the cranberry bogs heading into Betty's Neck. They're still turning on the sprinklers, or flooding them, to stave off the freeze. When the sun came out, the fun began! This is pretty much straight out of the camera. I cropped the left side and moved some exposure sliders. The blue at the bottom of each droplet is reflected sky. I thought it was pretty neat.
Here's a shot of the "canvas" for this series I took....http://hocusfocusd70.smugmug.com/Photography/Dailies-Alternates/8095536_tN2vgC#!i=1779259359&k=Pn4kCwg

Fading Beauty
Wolftrap Hill Farm
Middleboro, Ma

I'm sure you're all pretty sick of daffodil images by now but, this is the first opportunity I've had to lose myself in a flower patch this year. I had a blast.

Swamp reflections.
After the sunrise itself is over, there are a few places I like to visit while the sun is illuminating them from the side. This Highland Road swamp is an example. No one is ever there. I know why though....I ruin whatever shoes I have on!

Boy, did I learn a lot about cranberries and cranberry harvesting this week end. Here's the gallery, as promised....http://hocusfocusd70.smugmug.com/Journalism/Cranberries-Cranberries/10218246_av7er#704369742_n2WfZ The folks who were harvesting this bog, here in Lakeville, were so nice. The even let me go up onto their big machine (kind of like a boom) to get photographs of the bog from up above. I'll put some up a little later. This machine is called a picker. It goes through the bog and gently beats on the cranberry plants to loosen the berries. In this photo, you can see them spraying up into the air with all the water .

Most times, we are so busy looking all around us for that interesting shot, that we forget to look up. This particular day was very windy and I kept being drawn to look up as the trees were swirling around and cracking. Where else do you gallery a photo like this?

We found ourselves with an hour to kill in Waltham so we climbed a hill called Mackerel Hill. I thought that to be a strange name for a "mountain". It was quite pretty with all the foliage. When we got to the top, looming up into the sky, was a water tower completely covered with graffiti. So here you have it- shadow play on a graffiti covered water tower at the top of Mackerel Hill!
Thanks George for sending the link to Mackerel Hill! I had never really been to Waltham before so it's history I haven't a clue about. Apparently, there are quite a few hills there. Not the prettiest of towns anymore. It seemed lost between urban and suburban with a flair for the tacky, cheap 70's look.

Squanto overlooking Plymouth Harbor at sunrise.

Thank you for all your wonderful comments on my Dory image from yesterday. I knew I really liked it but, I was pretty surprised when I got home last night and there were so many comments. Again, thank you. It's one of my all-time top images in one day!
I'm out the door again for sunrise right now. I have no idea yet where I'm going but I'd better hurry up and decide! Have a wonderful, happy shooting kind of day!

The search for color continues....This was taken down at Great Quitticas, my sunrise spot. The sun had just come up and at that point, was only illuminating the orange grasses in the water.

Such a beautiful snow storm we had here. Then the sun came out!.....and the fun began!
I thought this looked like a glass or frozen strawberry.

A lone pond weed at sunrise.

Falmouth Harbor
Talk about a colorless sky. This boat was perfectly moored without anything distracting in the vacinity. I took quite a few shots of it at different angles but eventually chose this one because of the simplicity of the ripples and reflection.

Morning after the first snow, such that it was. This shot is from Crooked Lane looking north east across the Wilkie Farm Lands.

Cruising the Delmarva
After a beautiful week of weather, the rains have come. Time to learn something new. This was taken on my South trip last month with just this sort of treatment in mind for it. I finally did it! I think the ride up through the Delmarva Peninsula was one of my favorite parts of the trip. There was so much to take in. As a passenger, I was shooting out both sides of the car, at 72mph!
On another note...Vandana and baby? It must be time!

Montgomery Street swamp, adjacent to Elder's Pond. I like how the trees grow here in three feet of water. In the morning, the foliage is glowing from the back lighting.
Wish me luck today at my first ever Art Festival. I've been working like mad printing, mat cutting and framing for the past month, in the off chance that someone might actually buy something! I'm so disappointed that it's going to rain here in southestern Massachusetts today, and I mean pour. It's an outdoor festival, although, I am under a big tent. Hopefully, I'll have a booth right in the middle!

Poquoy Brook
I drive by here often enough to have realized that at the right time of day, these trees could cast some nice shadows. So, I went by....
I also did another HDR from Poquoy Brook. I couldn't decide which one to put up so, here's the other one too! http://hocusfocusd70.smugmug.com/Reflections/Reflections/7562626_UDaj8#700823653_Ybgzw

The Wedding Rings

Tomorrow is the first day of my 2 day show down the Cape. I did well in my goal of having lots of new pieces. This is one of them. I like the way the ripples are locked into each other. I love this series of images. The ripples and colors are so different in each one. You'll want to go big on this one!
Here is a shot of the "canvas" for these images....http://hocusfocusd70.smugmug.com/Photography/Dailies-Alternates/8095536_9i72c#718750608_588vf

The boardwalk at sunset. Gray's Beach Yarmouth
I'm really loving my new terrain. It's been the perfect pick-me-up for the winter blahs. I've been going to bed so early (ok, so I lay there and play "words with friends" til I fall asleep) but it makes the late sunrises and early sunsets so easy to shoot. I just gotta get there! The Cape Cod Canal is about 25 minutes from me. Anything beyond seems like a hike and half but, I found the motivation and have adjusted myself to make it happen. I'm so glad I did.
Posting this early is strange but, I'm already heading out for sunrise to another new Cape destination!

Horseneck Beach in the winter.

Another rain shot.....Plymouth Harbor, MA...
I know lots of you folks out across the countryside have also had an unusually rainy season. It has really put a damper on my photography enthusiasm. I'm hoping all that ends today when the sun makes it's first appearance here in well over a week.
Today, I meet a whole group of new photography friends. Through "meetup.com", I did a search for photography clubs in my area and a few weeks later, got an email that a new one was forming. I feel like a child starting camp~nervous!

Galleries

Dailies :

Updated: May 18, 2013 5:30am EDT

Mandalas : I think I have a problem......it's these mandalas! I can't stop making them. It's so fun to make a few from the same original photograph as they are all so different. For most of them, I have listed what the original was of. Many of them are from the same photo and therefore go well together in a wall grouping, especially including the original as a non-verbal anchor. Some are just cool and others are REALLY cool. Enjoy!!

I think I have a problem......it's these mandalas! I can't stop making ...

Updated: Apr 30, 2013 11:00am EDT

Flowers, flowers flowers : I love shooting macro and I love flowers. It's a perfect combination. So here's my attempt at posting with the best of you out there!

Flowers, flowers flowers

I love shooting macro and I love flowers. It's a perfect combination. ...

Updated: Apr 30, 2013 10:59am EDT

In and Around Lakeville : Southeastern Massachusetts affords the photographer many beautiful and diverse landscapes to capture any time of the day or year. Some are far off the beaten path and yet others are just out the car window. This gallery exists only for the purpose of sharing two of my favorite things: the outdoors and photography. Most of these photos are untouched as editing is not one of my favorite things. Feel free to leave any comments or ask any questions. Enjoy!

In and Around Lakeville

Southeastern Massachusetts affords the photographer many beautiful and ...

Updated: Apr 11, 2013 5:18pm EDT

Digital Fun : There are times when the composition and lighting lend itself very well to something creative , aside from the photograph itself. Just something a little different and fun. There is a new form or art out there-digital art. I shoot with an eye toward that sort of thinking now. I have amassed quite a few images this fall, kind of like a squirrel does with nuts, to keep me busy all winter. This gallery is sure to grow alongside my progress. Let me know what you think. I love feedback on the stuff that's new territory for me.

There are times when the composition and lighting lend itself very wel ...

Updated: Apr 09, 2013 9:22am EDT

One Fine Morning : All of the images in this gallery were captured on the same morning, all in Lakeville.

One Fine Morning

Dailies Alternates : Seems like there are some days that are very good shooting days and it's difficult to decide which ONE photo should be my daily. Then, I can have a day or two where I don't take anything that really knocks my socks off. Feast or famine, it seems. This gallery exists as a result of the days of feast. Enjoy!

Dailies Alternates

Seems like there are some days that are very good shooting days and it ...

Updated: Nov 08, 2012 7:01am EDT

Coastal New England :

Coastal New England

Updated: Oct 30, 2012 8:41am EDT

Family : If you know the password, great. Come on in. If not, shoot me an email.

My Southern Exposure :

My Southern Exposure

Updated: Mar 11, 2012 4:17pm EDT

Reflections :

Updated: Feb 21, 2012 8:29am EDT

Quitticas : Assawompsett ponds complex,

Assawompsett ponds complex,

Updated: Jan 05, 2012 8:28am EDT

Dusk at Plimoth, 1620

Updated: Nov 21, 2010 10:20am EDT

Birds : If it has wings, it's in here!

If it has wings, it's in here!

Updated: Nov 05, 2010 8:52am EDT

Larry and Jean Maloney's Day :

Larry and Jean Maloney's Day

Updated: Apr 15, 2010 2:19pm EDT

Droplets :

Updated: Dec 07, 2009 2:40pm EDT

Cranberries Cranberries : I had the good fortune of being graciously invited (although I showed up at the wrong bog!) to photograph the harvesting of a cranberry bog. The bog I ended up shooting was being harvested by some of the nicest people I've met. These bogs in particular are on Southworth Street in Lakeville. They were working the last of the ninety acres of bogs that they own individually but harvest cooperatively, from the best I could gather without being too nosey. They sure had it down to a science and it was quite fun to photograph. Shown here are two types of harvesting, dry picking and wet picking. Though not nearly as exciting to photograph, dry picking has a higher cash yeild, as the shelf life of the berry itself is longer. It's quite a production to flood the bogs and wet pick. Hopefully, I did the operation the justice it deserves. Enjoy.

Cranberries Cranberries

Emma's Emma-azing pictures : My first pictures on SmugMug! Just a mish mash from when I got my pocket camera, three years ago to my Lumix, today.

Emma's Emma-azing pictures

My first pictures on SmugMug! Just a mish mash from when I got my pock ...

Updated: Jul 29, 2009 12:53pm EDT

Green Monsters : UNDEFEATED! Way to go Green Monsters!!!!

"Windy Hill Farm" :

"Windy Hill Farm"

Updated: Mar 10, 2009 9:51am EDT

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