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Waterfall ICM / Rose River Falls, Shenandoah National Park
Rose River Falls on the Last Day of Spring - Composite Photo: Exposure Blend
Red Winged Blackbird Sings a Colorful Song at Huntley Meadows
Great Horned Owl Owlet Casts a Wary Eye Towards Chattering Crows
Branching Great Horned Owl Owlet at Huntley Meadows
Pine Tree Reflection in Capitol Reef National Park
White Tailed Fawn and Mother at Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park
Grizzly Bear Known as Jam Near Lake Butte, Yellowstone National Park
Winter Sumset on the Tanner Ridge Road, Shenandoah National Park
Clouds Streaming Over a Mountain Ridge in Grand Teton National Park
Red Fox Pouncing in Yellowstone National Park
Autumn Sunrise at the Tidal Basin - Composite Photo (Focus Stack)
Dawn at Canary Spring, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park
Pika in the Early Morning Light at Beartooth Pass
Star Trails Over the Grand Teton from the Snake River Overlook - Composite Photo  ~ Two Hours of Stacked Images
Sunlight Through the Trees and Steam at the West Thumb Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park
Milky Way Over the Upper Falls of the Yellowstone River - Composite Photo
Grizzly Bear 399 in Grand Teton National Park
Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River from Lookout Point
Thor's Hammer in Bryce Canyon Amphitheater Under the Stars as lit by a Waxing Moon - I took this photo as a possible foreground for a Milky Way composite.
Thor's Hammer in Bryce Canyon Amphitheater Under the Stars as lit by a Waxing Moon - I took this photo as a possible foreground for a Milky Way composite.
Pink Dogwood Flower Macro: Virginia
Tulip Macro #2: Virginia
Apricot Beauty Rose: Virginia
Amaryllis on White: Virginia
Dogwood Trees in the Wind #2: Albemarle County, Virginia
Bleeding Heart: Virginia
Amaryllis on Black: Virginia
Phlox and Coneflowers: Virginia
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Over Big Meadows as the Sunset Fades
Milky Way Over Devil's Tower National Monument on an Early Summer Night
Milky Way Panorama from the Bacon Hollow Overlook on Skyline Drive - Photo Composite (In Progress)
Star Trails in Double Arch, Arches National Park
Milky Way Setting Near Monument Valley
Geminid Meteor Shower Over Old Rag and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Shenandoah National Park
Moonlight, Mist and Stars in the Barnyard
Milky Way zFramed by the Trees of the Hazel Mountain Overlook in Shenandoah National Park
Moon and Climbers: Arches National Park
Storm Clouds Over the Tetons from the Snake River Overlook
Fishing on the North Fork of the Sun River just above the Gorge: Bob Marshal Wilderness, Montana
Sunlight Breaks Through onto Balanced Rock: Arches National Park
Sunset Over Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Star Dune Before Sunrise - Great Sand Dunes National Park
Star Dune Before Sunrise - Great Sand Dunes National Park
Autumn Sunrise Over Sugar Hollow
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Sunrise and Reflections on the Potomac River
Old Rag at Sunset on a Winter Day at the Pinnacles Overlook on Skyline Drive
Stars Fading Into the Approaching Sunrise at the Hazel Mountain Overlook
Autumn Sunrise Over Sugar Hollow
Spring Dawn in Shenandoah National Park as the Sun Brightens the Sky and the New Leaves Creep up the Mountains
Grand Canyon Sunrise at Grandview Point
Waning Crescent Moon in the Dawn Sky of a Late Winter Morning
Remember: Rose at The Wall: Washington, DC
Martin Luther King Memorial and Full Moon at Dawn #2: Washington, DC
Washington Monument and Reflections in the Tidal Basin, on an Autumn Morning - #1: Washington, DC
US Capitol and Reflection at Dawn: Washington, DC
Moonrise at USMC Memorial: Washington, DC
Fireworks, Lincoln Memorial & Washington Monument #10 (B&W):  Washington, DC
Moonset & Memorial: Washington, DC
Harlequin Duck at LeHardy Rapids on the Yellowstone River
Bald Eagle Fishing at Conowingo Dam on a Winter Morning - Composite Photo
Heron on the Potomac River at Sunrise
Red Fox Kit in Shenandoah National Park
Red Fox Walking on Snow: Falls Church, Virginia
Red Fox Kit Outside Their Den Under my Shed: Falls Church, Virginia
Bull Elk in Yellowstone: Yellowstone National Park
Bull Moose on an Autumn Morning in Grand Teton National Park
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Family on an Autumn Afternoon
Family on an Autumn Afternoon
Family on an Autumn Afternoon
Breaststroke Swimmer - Pencil Effect
Winter Twilight in Paradise Valley - Dry Brush Effect
Orange Day Lily with Water Droplets & Fireworks Composite
Petrified Trees in the Snow - Partial Pencil Effect
Hilltoppers on Fox Ridge Driveway - Oil Paint 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
Rime Ice Covered Tree at Mud Volcano - HDR Effect

May 29, 2026

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guitar, black and white, Charlie Pastorfield, gladstones, Knights gambit vineyard

Here are some of my photos from the Gladstones' performance at the 2026 Hurricane Party at Knights Gambit Vineyard on May 24, 2026.

Milky Way, reflection, Yellowston Lake, Yellowstone National Park

Here are some of my favorite photos from 2025.

If you haven't been following my Facebook or Instagram feeds, you my not know that I spent about one month last fall in the Tetons / Yellowstone for some wildlife, landscape and astrophotography. Some of the photos are in my Facebook Photos gallery and all of the ones I've processed so far are in the West 2025 gallery.

Due to circumstances, I scrapped my plans for a spring trip out west, and I am very envious of the photographers currently capturing photos of baby grizzly bear cubs, bison calves etc. in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. I am now hoping to make another fall trip, and I have updated my plans for moonsets on the Tetons and the Milky Way in Yellowstone for 2027.

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 2025-2026 hunting season is over, and the snowcrete definitely impacted how many times Farmington was able to hunt and how often I could join them. Please check my FHC page for my photos from First Day of Cubbing at Millington on 9/1/2025 until the Last Meet of 2025-2026 from Millington on March 21st. Here are my photos from Farmington's Hunter Trials on April 26th with separate galleries for Near Here (morning) classes and the Over Yonder (afternoon) classes. The FHC page also contains links 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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