Pictures with Depth

In reality a photograph is a flat 2 dimensional but giving it perspective gives it structure and helps lead the eye. There a visual tricks you can use to achieve this. Linear perspective can be emphasized by converging lines which extend into the distance. Diminishing scale in use of things which get smaller the farther they are away. Aerial perspectives particularly with leading lines draw the eye into the image.

Aerial Perspective : This is an excellent example of aerial perspective, The eroded creek leads the eye the lightening in the tone and the hills rising in the distance imply depth.

Love is not blind.............

Romantic Flowers

Romantic Flowers

Great American Outdoors

Located in eastern Idaho, Harriman State Park and the eight miles of the Henrys Fork of the Snake River that flows through it, attract wildlife of all sorts. Sightings of elk and moose are common. Also in the park: trumpeter swans, bald eagles, osprey, sandhill cranes, black bear, deer coyotes and more.

• By Jan Butchofsky

In November, thousands of sandhill cranes, snow geese and other migratory birds glide to rest and feed in The Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge

• Courtesy South Dakota Tourism

The Wildlife Loop in Custer State Park boasts herds of buffalo running wild in the 71,000-acre park. Antelope, elk, deer, turkey, prairie dogs and countless other species abound

• By Mary Bergin, Roadstraveled.com

The 225-acre International Crane Foundation, near Baraboo, Wisconsin, is the only place in the world that is home to all 15 species of cranes; 11 are classified endangered or vulnerable.

• Wind River Visitor Council

The largest herd of wintering Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in North America inhabits the Whiskey Mountain Bighorn Sheep area near Dubois, Wyo., in the northwestern part of the state.

• 
  
  
  
  • The Wilds
  Visitors go on safari to see rare species including the white rhino, cheetahs and more on nearly 10,000 acres of fenced grasslands at The Wilds in southeastern Ohio.
  
  
  
  
  

  • By Earl West, Jr., Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge

  See red foxes at the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware
  
  
  
  
  

  • By Elaine Warner

  Driving slowly through the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge is highly recommended
  
  
  
  
  

  • By Frank Gallo, Natural Selections

  This is a Willet, a shorebird that nests in the marsh at Connecticut Audubon Society's Coastal Center at Milford Point
  
  
  
  

  • Arkansas Dept. of Parks & Tourism

  The fertile forests and 300 lakes of the White River Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas are interlaced with streams, sloughs, and bayous, and are a haven for myriad native wildlife and migratory birds
  
  
  
  
  

  • By Steve J. Shaluta, West Virginia Department of Commerce

  The West Virginia State Wildlife Center in Upshur County offers a unique opportunity to learn about species in the Mountain State. View black bears, wolves and bald eagles from a 1.25-mile interpretive trail that winds through forested hillside.
  
  
  
  
  

  • By Matthew Inden, Colorado Tourism Office

  Elk graze unperturbed in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
  
  
  
  
  

  • By Mike Whye

  Sandhill cranes migrate through Nebraska
  
  
  
  

  • By Donna Bingham, NHDTTD

  New Hampshire's "Moose Alley" is on the short list for dependable roadside moose-spotting. Dawn and dusk are optimal times to make the slow drive on forested Route 3 as moose come out of the woods in search of salt licks.

Celebrity yearbook memories

Halle Berry, Oscar-winning actress

• By Evan Agostini, AP

Now: Berry, 45, attends The Fragrance Foundation's 2011 FiFi Awards at New York's Lincoln Center in May. She will appear in the Garry Marshall romantic comedy New Year's Eve, which opens in December.

Kenny Chesney, in costume

• Ancestry.com

Then: Kenny Chesney, during his senior year in 1986, wears a costume at an event at Gibbs Middle and High School in Corryton, Tenn.

Kenny Chesney, before the hat

• Ancestry.com

And: Chesney shows a more serious side in his senior portrait in 1986.

Kenny Chesney, country music superstar

• By Richard Drew, AP

Now: Chesney, 43, performs for NBC's Today show in New York June 17. His tour, Kenny Chesney Goin' Coastal, makes stops in New York and Massachusetts this week.

Sandra Bullock, freshman

• Ancestry.com

Then: The future actress leaves a serious impression in this portrait from her freshman year in 1979 at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va.

Sandra Bullock, award-winning actress

• By ROBYN BECK, AFP/Getty Images

Now: Bullock, 47, joins actor and pal Ryan Reynolds, 34, for the world premiere of The Change-Up in Los Angeles in early August. The two, who starred opposite each other in The Proposal, have been photographed vacationing with friends this summer.

Day in celebrities

• By Lory Ayala, BuzzFoto/FilmMagic
• Don't mess with JLo! Extras fall by the wayside as Jennifer Lopez shoots a commercial Tuesday in Los Angeles.
  
  
  
  

  • By Matt Sayles, AP
  • Say hello to his little friend. Al Pacino arrives at the Scarface Legacy Celebration Event in Los Angeles Tuesday. The movie will be released on Blu-ray Sept. 6.
    
    
    
    

    • By Matt Sayles, AP
    • Ludacris entertains the crowd at the Scarface Legacy Celebration.
      
      
      
      

      • By Ferdaus Shamim, WireImage
      • Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess attend the European premiere of their film, One Day, on Tuesday in London.
        
        
        
        

        • By Marta Ovod, AP
        • Here's another look at Anne Hathaway at the London premiere of One Day.
          
          
          
          

          • By Bruce Chapman, Winston-Salem Journal, via AP

          Brooklyn Decker, wife of Andy Roddick and Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model, applauds her husband's 6-2,6-4 win over Edouard Roger-Vasselin during second-round play of the Winston-Salem Open in Winston Salem, N.C., Tuesday.

The day in pictures

The day in pictures

By Victor R. Caivano, AP
Students carry a banner that reads in Spanish, "Quality education is possible" near a burning barricade during a national strike in Santiago, Chile. The strike has shut down Chile for the past two days.


Dao Xuan T, 9 months, is treated for hand, foot and mouth disease next to his sleeping mother at a pediatric hospital in the southern Vietnamese province of Dong Nai. Vietnam is battling to control an unusually severe outbreak of the disease that has killed more than 80 children this year and infected tens of thousands more.

• By Gareth Fuller-pa, AP

Roger Allsopp, 70, trains in Dover, England, for his bid to become the oldest person to swim across the English Channel.  Allsopp, a retired breast cancer surgeon, is waiting for the right weather to launch his attempt. He aims to beat the record holder, George Brunstad, who was 70 when he swam the Channel in August 2004.

• By Andriy Kravchenko, AP
• An opposition activist gives a flower to a Ukrainian riot officer as police block a march marking the 20th anniversary of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union and protest over the arrest of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

• By Francois Mori, AP
• A rebel fighter climbs on top of a statue inside Moammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli. 

• By Akira Suemori, AP

Demonstrator Muftah Abdelsamad shows off a wristband featuring the colors of the rebel flag and the date when the opposition movement in Libya started outside the Libyan Embassy in London. Opposition officials rolled out a doormat bearing Moammar Gadhafi's image, so visitors to the rebel-held embassy could trample over his portrait as they entered the building. 

• By Jeff J Mitchell, Getty Images
• A street entertainer lies down on a bed of nails during a performance on the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

• By John MacDougall, AFP/Getty Images
• A visitor takes a picture of Leonardo Da Vinci's painting Lady with an Ermine. Da Vinci's treasured painting, a work belonging to Poland that was stolen by the Nazis, went on display in Germany for the first time since World War II at Berlin's Bode Museum.

• By Kazuhiro Nogi, AFP/Getty Images

A worker walks in front of the grounded cargo ship Asia Symphony, which was pushed onto the harbor wall in Kamaishi port by the tsunami March 11. Efforts to remove the Panama-registered, 4,724-ton freighter will be finished in October when it is returned to the sea by a marine crane after repairs.