About Naomi Figueroa Photography

Traveling. Farmer‘s markets. Changing of seasons. Latin America. Cooking. The color blue (definitely not pink). Maine. Fresh fruits and veggies. Photography. Big dogs (if you‘re going to be a dog, be a DOG). Writing. The smell of pine trees. Jesus. Teenagers. Speaking Spanish (or trying, at least). Learning. Fair trade coffee. Dancing salsa with my husband. Nature. Family.

Just a few snippets of my life, but it all comes out in my photography because it is part of who I am. The why of everything I do is to bring glory to God. He is the ultimate Creative and the reason that we have this wonderful gift of being able to create, whether our medium is art or language or technology or music.

I‘m so glad you stopped by my blogsite. I hope you‘ll enjoy exploring a bit. Leave some love in the comments, or send me a note on the contact page! :D

Archive: ‘Photography--Animals’



Pet Portrait

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

In just four months of owning a dog, I’ve:

-scooped more poop than I’d care to know
-come home to a kitchen floor covered in trash (you can ask my hubby about that “no crate” experiment)
-used more paper towels to clean up piddles on the floor than I would like to admit
-yelled “No!” more than I probably ever did in the past 25 years total
-read a LOT of Cesar Milan
-fished what I thought was a clump of grass out of her mouth, only to find out that little Bunny Foo Foo was scooping up field mice, bopping them on the head, and leaving them unconscious in our back yard so my little Sabana could try to eat them for a snack
-purchased countless rawhide bones for this little chewer

And bones…bones have been my biggest ally! Since Saturday, she went through 3 regular sized rawhide bones. (ps…it’s only Wednesday!) If she’s a bit rowdy, I can usually give her a new bone, and she’ll settle in to chew and chew for hours. Thank goodness for bones!

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She was rather concerned that kitty wanted to take her bone…

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Thanks for stopping by my blog! I’d love to hear some of YOUR favorite pet stories!

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Flash!

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Well, I finally had enough saved up, so I made the plunge and got the Canon 430EXII flash for my camera. Wow…what a difference. I have SO much to learn, but so far, it’s made a world of difference. Some of my resources are:
Digital Photography School
Strobist Blog
And my favorite: Planet Neil Flash Techniques

Here are a few samples of my experiments with bouncing the flash. Quincy makes a good test subject…

This is using the flash unit, straight on with no diffuser. Much better than on-camera flash, but pretty harsh and unflattering still.


Here, I bounced the light from the flash off the wall to my right.


Here, I bounced it off the ceiling.


And now, I bounced the light at an angle on the wall and ceiling behind me. Nice and even light. Keep in mind this was at night, and the only light in a big living room was a small table lamp.



This is my favorite….so cute!

Playing around with the new camera…and Photoshop

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

So my camera arrived, and I’ve been having some fun with it, though I haven’t had much time since we just moved into our new house. Here’s one shot of our cat Quincy looking out the windows at the cars and creatures that he’d like to chase.

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