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Grizzly Bear Known as Jam Near Lake Butte, Yellowstone National Park
Golden Cottonwoods and Birches at Schwabacker Landing in Grand Teton National Park
Sunrise Lights the Morning Fog at Big Meadows
Backlit Dew Covered Grass Heads
White Tailed Fawn Early on a Summer Morning at Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park
Coyotoe and Dinner in Grand Teton National Park
Fall Colors and Reflections on the Swift River #1: White Mountains, New Hampshire
Fall Colors - Swift River Reflections #10: White Mountains, New Hampshire
Storm Clearing over the Tetons on an Autumn Afternoon: Grand Teton National Park
Horses in Pasture with the Tetons on an Early Autumn Morning: Grand Teton National Park
UVA Rotunda and Lawn on an Autumn Morning: Charlottesville, Virginia
Skyline Drive at Dawn on an Autumn Morning
Autumn Maples and Evergreens in the Wind (Multiple Exposure): Dolly Sods, West Virginia
Dogwood in Field #1: Albemarle County, Virginia
Timber Wolf on Road - Lamar Valley
Wolf in Yellowstone National Park
Bull Elk in the Fog, Yellowstone National Park
Big Horn Sheep Ram at Logan Pass
Grazing Bison Near Upper Geyser Basin: Yellowstone National Park
Heron on the Potomac River at Sunrise
Harlequin Duck at LeHardy Rapids on the Yellowstone River
Bald Eagle Fishing at Conowingo Dam on a Winter Morning - Composite Photo
Moonlight, Mist and Stars in the Barnyard
Milky Way Over Hawksbill Mountain in Shenandoah National Park on a September Night at the Crescent Rock Overlook
Milky Way Over Devil's Tower National Monument on an Early Summer Night
Big Dipper and Polaris in the December Night Sky - AstorBlast filter
Milky Way on a Summer Night at Ravens Roost
Milky Way zFramed by the Trees of the Hazel Mountain Overlook in Shenandoah National Park
Geminid Meteor Shower Over Old Rag and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Shenandoah National Park
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and the Milky Way Over Hawksbill, Shenandoah National Park
Autumn Sunrise Over Sugar Hollow
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White Oak Canyon, Autumn Afternoon #2: Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Star Dune Before Sunrise - Great Sand Dunes National Park
On the Wilderness Trail: White Mountains, New Hampshire
Tent in Evening Light on Mt. Baker Looking Across the Ridges: Mount Baker, Washington
Scotts Run Waterfall in the Snow
T.A. Moulton Barn and Tetons by the Light of a Full Moon in Grand Teton National Park
Rising Sun Burning Through the Clouds
Jefferson Memorial Above the Mist Rising from an Icy Tidal Basin During the First Dawn of the New Year
Big Meadows at Dawn with the Setting Strawberry Moon
Big Meadows at Dawn with the Setting Strawberry Moon
White Tailed Deer Silhouetted Against the Sunset at Big Meadows on a Winter Night
Spring Dawn in Shenandoah National Park as the Sun Brightens the Sky and the New Leaves Creep up the Mountains
Sunrise Colored Clouds Above Capitol Gorge in Capitol Reef National Park
Dawn on the Great Plains
Washington Monument and Reflections in the Tidal Basin, on an Autumn Morning - #1: Washington, DC
Moonrise at USMC Memorial: Washington, DC
US Capitol and Reflection at Dawn: Washington, DC
Remember: Rose at The Wall: Washington, DC
Fireworks, Lincoln Memorial & Washington Monument #10 (B&W):  Washington, DC
Martin Luther King Memorial and Full Moon at Dawn #2: Washington, DC
Moonset & Memorial: Washington, DC
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Hilltoppers on Fox Ridge Driveway - Oil Paint Effect
Rock Climber #1: Great Falls National Park, Virginia - Oil Paint Effect
Petrified Trees in the Snow - Partial Pencil Effect
Doug Gordon at 1983 Slalom World Championships - Dry Brush Effect
Barn at Dawn with a Dusting of Snow on the Blue Ridge Mountains - Edited
Orange Day Lily with Water Droplets & Fireworks Composite
Breaststroke Swimmer - Pencil Effect
Winter Twilight in Paradise Valley - Dry Brush Effect

September 12, 2025

News

aurora, northern lights, shenandoah national park
This photo of the Aurora Borealis / Northern Lights from the Jewel Hollow Overlook in Shenandoah National Park is one of my favorite photos from 2024 when I was also able to capture the Total Solar Eclipse from northern Maine, the now deceased but still legendary Grizzly 399 in Grand Teton National Park, the also now removed Stumpy the cherry tree at the Tidal Basin in DC, and many more photos.

grizzly 399, grand teton national park, queen of the tetons
I have loaded some of my images to FineArtAmerica as a way for you to order metal or canvas prints. Here are the photos that are currently available through that service. Please let me know if you order a print or if there's a photo you want me to add to that collection.

Those prints won't have my signature, and I still will be offering metal prints with my signature, but the signed prints will take a bit longer.

fox hunting, huntsman, hounds, Farmington Hunt Club
The new fox hunting season has started. Please check my FHC page for my photos from First Day of Cubbing at Millington on 9/1/2025 and for my galleries from the 2024-2025 season and for my fox hunting photos from previous years.

dawn, shenandoah national park, blue ridge mountains
If you are looking for a photo you saw on my Facebook, Instagram, Threads or Blue Sky pages, please take a look at my Facebook and Instagram gallery with almost all of the photos I post to social media except for my fox hunting albums. The photos in the gallery are in, roughly, reverse chronological order from newest to earliest, and, by default, you will see the photos I have posted in the current year since I have posted a lot of photos over the years. You can select another year or All if you want to through the filter just above the gallery thumbnails.

Website Updates

I added a field to the filter form, so that you can now search for photos taken in a specific year in my larger galleries. The form field should only appear when the gallery contains photos from multiple years.

If you are still having problems with the shopping cart, you can always send me an email with a list of your favorite photos, and the size(s) you wish to purchase.

Let me know what you think of those changes or if you discover any new bugs.

All of the URLs on my site should now be a lot easier to remember and share. Instead of the old format with the gID=XXX in the URL, you should now be able to simply enter a URL like www.CathySummers.com/2017-NVSL-All-Stars to find the photos I took during the NVSL All Star meet, or www.CathySummers.com/Abbott-Lane-Foxes to see the photos of the foxes who used to live in my backyard. You can always use the Gallery Search page to find a gallery by name or part of a name.

If you login when you start your visit, you can now mark photos as your favorites, and then you can look at all of your favorite images on a separate gallery page. I hope this will really help those of you trying to collect images from multiple galleries as you try to decide which one to purchase. Once logged in, you will see "Your Favorites" as the first item in the "Your Galleries" menu.

The Framed Prints gallery now allows you to look at zoomed in photos of all the framed prints I currently have and are ready for immediate pick up or delivery.

I have added a limited search capability to the gallery pages. You can now filter the images in a gallery by how I have rated the photos, if you want to see which ones I think are the best, and you can search for keywords if, for example you just want to see my rose photos without looking at the other flower images. Please let me know what you think of this change, or contact me with other suggested improvements.

Remember to follow my Facebook page for additional updates including previews of images that I add to the galleries here. See the button below.

Swim Photos

swim team collage
Swim and Dive Team Parents,

Please send me an email if you need access to your swim team's picture day gallery. I can still take orders for collages and prints.

If you are having any difficulty ordering prints or collages from my website, please use the option to email me your order during the checkout process. Please also contact me if you have any questions about the image sizes, magnets of your swimmer's or diver's portrait, et cetera.

Swimming is a highly photogenic sport with water flying off the swimmers' hands or cascading down over their faces, or with the distortions provided by the water, and sometimes I think the pictures can be enhanced with various effects in Photoshop, so I created the Swimmers as Art gallery to showcase some of those treatments and otherwise dynamic images. (If you have a favorite photo of your swimmer, contact me if you want to see if I can apply any of those transformations.)

If you are looking for the photos I have taken at some of the High School or other "winter" swim meets, you can try the Gallery Search to find the gallery. Contact me if you need a gallery's password. I will leave the photos from the High School and other swim meets on this web site for a while, and I will be happy to sell you prints or electronic copies.

With Elena now too old for swimming in NVSL meets, I will not be as tied to Lee Graham pool on my summer mornings. Please contact me if you are interested in discussing having me do your team photos.

Cathy


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