Another Eclipse Photo

One more eclipse photo, the first one I took.  A little overexposed, but I liked the star effect.

Eclipse Photos from St. Mary's County, MD

My husband had a solar filter for his telescope.  It was bigger than my 150-500 mm lens, so we just let gravity hold it down.  We had a scary moment, when I almost let it fall off the end.  Yikes!  The eclipse was about 80 percent or so here.

Jim remembered seeing interesting crescents on the ground through the trees when he was younger, so I photographed that too.

River Concert July 21, 2017 St. Mary's College of MD

The Chesapeake Orchestra performed on July 21st at St. Mary's College of Maryland on the Townhouse Green at 7:30 pm.  Jeffrey Silberschlag conducted music of George Gershwin, including "I Got Rhythm" and the famous "Rhapsody in Blue", music by Cole Porter and a Medley from "La La Land", as well as many others.  The piano was brilliantly played by repeat solo performer Jeffrey Chappell.  The concert was slightly delayed due to warm conditions.

As a photographer, I tried to catch moments that showed the dexterity of the performers, smiles in the orchestra, peaks of the action and emotional moments; I photograph all the things that portray the thrill of watching a great performance and memories that a viewer will want to bring home with them.

Jeffrey Chappell, pianist and soloist

Concert Vendors in front of the pond 

 Arts Alliance donation buckets

 Bonnie Green opening the concert

 Brass

 Jose Cueto, Concertmaster

  

 Standing ovation

 Milad Daniari on Bass

 Bryan Bourne on trombone

 Jose Cueto 

 Heather Haughn, violinist

 Jeffrey Chappell, pianist

 Clarinet, (I think)

 Three Saxophonists

The ding of percussion

 Trumpet

Brass

Upcoming Southern Maryland Boat Club Vintage Regatta July 29-30

Jim's Boat Club is having their annual Vintage Power Boat Regatta this weekend, July 29-30 at the Leonardtown Wharf,  8 am - 5 pm.  All of the boats are antiques and there are no winners, but the club members all have a great time racing around the course. 

My husband, Jim, is looking forward to participating.  We seem to be having a few difficulties this year, but hopefully everything will go well.
  
Here are a few photos from previous years.

Jim

River Concert July 7, 2017 Choral Music

Larry Vote was the guest conductor at the River Concert at St. Mary's College of Maryland on Friday, July 7th on the Townhouse Green.  Larry's daughter, Olivia, was the special soloist, a former choir member and fellow soprano in my church choir.  Since then, she has performed in many operas around the country and fairly recently in Switzerland.  The RCS choir (including several friends) and the Chesapeake Orchestra performed "Gloria" by Vivaldi and Mahler's "Songs of the Wayfarer".  Olivia also sang some of her favorites and mine "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".

Olivia Vote (Mezzo soprano) Singing 

 Arts Alliance Volunteer

 Suzanne

 José Cueto, Concertmaster

 Olivia Vote Awaiting her Performance

 Larry Vote, Guest Conductor

 Olivia and Larry Vote

 Artistic Fun with the Sun

 River Series Choir (RCS) Members

 Crowd at Sunset

 Beverly Babcock

 Olivia Vote and choir soloists

 Graceful Conducting by Larry Vote

Flowers from Her Dad