SueBee Arts

I’ve decided to test out another new photo format for our blog, portrait rather than the usual landscape. This particular shot is of Kat and SueBee, checking our reflections in the hallway mirror of a San Diego hotel. ~SueBee (photo by us)

This scene was the backdrop to a fabulous holiday cocktail party yesterday afternoon, hosted by dear friends at their hillside Malibu home. Imagine having that view from your yard! I used my iPhone to capture this photo in panorama mode. I don’t generally use anything other than the Nikon for photos on our blog, but thought I’d […]

Sunday, December 7th, was Kat’s 25th birthday! A group of us went to the Los Angeles Zoo for a special holiday nighttime lights event to celebrate, arranged by Kat’s older sister, Angelika. Today’s Foto Fix was taken there. More photos to follow, but I’ll say for now, it was a sight to see!! Oh, notice there’s a swan in the […]

This week’s Photo Challenge of Gone But Not Forgotten brings with it much reflection… many happy memories, and some sad. As I mentally wandered through my cache of photos, I recalled taking this shot two weeks ago while Kat and I wandered the streets downtown Los Angeles. It seems quite appropriate for the challenge, and gives the viewer multiple interpretations. […]

On the second floor of The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles, is a labyrinth of rooms lined with bookshelves, which if followed along for a ways, will lead to the Fold Gallery and Curio Shop! It’s a fascinating place. The Fold Curio Shop, with a floor covered in copper pennies, to which you may contribute via a […]

I found this scene rather magical, the way light was reflecting off the mirrored buildings surrounding Angels Flight in downtown Los Angeles. Sadly, the little funicular is closed at the moment, but will hopefully be back up and running soon. ~SueBee (photo by SueBee)

We’re entering into the Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular with this pic of books used for décor, displayed in a very angular manner. Pic was taken yesterday at The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles yesterday. ~Kat (pic by Kat)

While it may now be a novelty, the red street cars were once the transportation many people depended on to get to their jobs, including my 97 year old mom. She still likes to reminisce about her first job downtown Los Angeles, how she rode the street car to get there, and particuarly about the gentleman who left a gardenia […]

Photo taken two days ago, of the prolific group of roses directly outside my apartment front door. They bloom, and bloom, and bloom… mostly this bold pink, but I’ve seen an orange peeking out along one side, and a white in the middle of the group. It doesn’t take much for me to stop and smell the roses!! ~SueBee (photo by SueBee)

Fishing in the late afternoon, with an eye on the little boat floating off shore at Crystal Cove in Orange County. ~SueBee (photo by SueBee)

There appears to be a hole in the sky… shall I draw up my sailboat, climb deftly up the mast, take a peek, see what’s on the other side? ~SueBee (photo by SueBee) Our entry into the Weekly Photo Challenge: Minimalist was taken off the coast at Crystal Cove State Park in Orange County.

As the gull makes his elegant descent from the lamppost, I was at the ready with my lens pointed directly at him… and then shifted quickly to one side so as not to obstruct his forward movement! Our entry into this week’s photo challenge was taken at the Seal Beach Pier this past Saturday, after the […]

As I mentioned yesterday, it finally rained in Southern California! It was a real, solid downpour, enough to cause mudslides in some areas. We don’t do things in a half-baked way here, you know. At any rate, I had to get outside, breathe in the clean, fresh air. I took gobs of photos that I need to finish sorting through, so I’ve decided […]

Titling this picture Checkered Stairway somewhat nagged at me; would have been more appropriate to title it Checkered Mind based on the journey it triggered in mine. I reasoned that the stairs aren’t checkered, it’s the floor in front of the stairs that are, which led to images of hopscotch, chess, and naturally, the game of checkers. And, to dancing […]

I’m planning another book for this week’s challenge, Cover Art, and will be using this photo as the cover. It’ll be a collection of my poetry, short stories and photos, with a bit of retrospect, a touch of reminiscing, an abundance of humor. It’s based on my life’s journey, as adapted from my favorite lines of my favorite poem, The Road […]

The cover of my new book “It Was Current Just Yesterday- but has since been filed away” is submitted for this week’s photo challenge, Cover Art. This photo was taken today in the University of Southern California’s Doheny Memorial Library while I was visiting the Los Angeles Archives Bizarre being held there. The card catalog is living proof of […]

This photo, taken of a friend’s daughter at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, demonstrates something very bizarre, and not being a science specialist, I’ll consider it as an entry to last week’s Photo Challenge theme of Refraction. The little girl is walking on the other side of a large fish tank, with a photo on […]

Continuing with my hopeful thoughts of cooler days and my favorite season, Autumn! This photo was taken last November on the mountain in Oak Glen, California. ~SueBee (photo by SueBee)

Following a fun week of being tour guide to visiting relatives from Germany, I’m feeling rather dreamy. Therefore this week’s photo challenge hits the right note with me! My entry for the challenge was taken from the 16th floor window of a San Diego hotel room during my visit there a few weeks back. The morning haze was thinning, […]

While visiting the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach this past Sunday with relatives from Germany, I took this picture of some sort of small fish. I didn’t edit the picture at all, other than a tiny bit of color saturation. For the life of me, I can’t figure out the fish’s eye in the photo. To me it looks like […]