Halloween
A creepy branch on a foggy morning coupled with texture and vignetting create my nature-driven Halloween image of 2013. (Katya Horner/Slight Clutter Photography)
A Way In
A foggy morning in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. A landscape that’s a bit fairytale and a bit fantasy. (Katya Horner/Slight Clutter Photography)
What’s in a name? [Fruity Pebbles]
So I posted new photo to my Facebook page and to my Society6 shop yesterday. I called it Therapy. I wasn’t completely sold on the name, but I was drawing a blank and feeling particularly impatient. It would have to do. Fast-forward about an hour. I returned to Facebook to read the comments on my […]
Cathedrals in Nature
Of cathedrals and arches, nature and grace. This is my extended office. I’m thankful for that. The Green Floor ©2013 Katya Horner The Forest’s Cathedral©2013 Katya Horner Tree-Lined©2013 Katya Horner I just added The Green Floor, my newest photo, to my Society 6 Shop. If interested, you can purchase a print here. Unrelated to photography. […]
Before and After [Just a Little Orange]
I have a general category of photography that I like to call “Whims of Change.” These are my photos that have textures and hyper-saturation. They are not intended to be literal representations of nature, but nuggets for the imagination. They are no more a product of my camera than my cat’s dinner is. They are […]
Fog Season [Gulf Coast Rural]
I was supposed to be in Palm Desert, California, visiting my dad, this past week, but had to cancel because of health reasons. Needless to say, I was extremely bummed about the turn of events. I had been looking forward to the visit. And from a photography standpoint, I had been psyched about going to […]
Fog Season [Creepy and Wonderful]
It’s a new year, and so far it’s been an exceptionally difficult one. From health issues to friends losing family members to cameras breaking to lost credit cards — it’s been a doozy. I guess that’s the way things go though. You win some, you lose some…and sometimes there’s fog. And speaking of fog, I […]
The Ones I Like List of 2012 [#1]
©2012 Katya Horner Showtime. I’m not a huge “Grand Canyon” person. There are “Grand Canyon” people and there are Grand Canyon people, and I fall into the latter group. My perfect beauty isn’t of rocks and divides, but […]
The Ones I Like List of 2012 [The Best of the Rest]
Okay, I want to warn all of you that you may be in for a bit of a let down. I hope not, but it could happen. As we approach my #1 photo of the year on my The Ones I Like List of 2012, I will tell you that the photo wasn’t one of […]
The Ones I Like List of 2012 [#2]
©2012 Katya Horner Leaves in blue. I chose this photo as #2 on my The Ones I Like List of 2012 because there’s not an ounce of chaos in it. It’s calming and it’s easy, and it invites me to step off the roller coaster for a while and decompress. Most of my photos […]
The Ones I Like List of 2012 [#3]
©2012 Katya Horner In Restless Dreams He Walked Alone. I just realized that this is my second photo in the Top 10 with a title that comes from or is inspired by Simon and Garfunkel’s song “The Sound of Silence.” Odd. I don’t imagine that I’ve done that with any other song. I guess […]
The Ones I Like List of 2012 [#4]
©2012 Katya Horner Monte Sano Calls. Before embarking on my “In Search of Fall Foliage” road trip to Northern Alabama in November of 2011, I did a lot of research. There were many gorgeous waterfalls in the northwestern part of the state and some glorious vistas in northeastern part of the state, but what […]
The Ones I Like List of 2012 [#5]
©2012 Katya Horner To Somewhere. Because I love morning mist and railroad tracks. Because I like the blue and brown color combination. And because “to somewhere” is usually my ideal destination when I shoot. No plans. Just me, my camera and a bunch of happy surprises.
The Ones I Like List of 2012 [#6]
Breathe. I took the photo Breathe in Lake Tahoe in 2007. Why then is it only finding its way into my Top 10 list now? Well, it’s a story of storage and failures and loss. It’s a story of a trip erased and an archives stunted. It’s a story about a dead external drive. Yep, […]
The Ones I Like List of 2012 [#7]
©2012 Katya Horner Shades of Happy, Shades of Calm. I’ve always felt painfully behind in this profession I’ve chosen — Professional Photographer. I think I never quite understood what it meant, that job description. Reading photography forums online or listening to experts in the field, I was led to believe that to be […]
The Ones I Like List of 2012 [#8]
Two Birds in a Tree. When I first looked at this photo in Adobe Camera Raw, my most indispensable processing software, I knew I had something, but I had no idea that I had this. There was a strong white/grey to the original photo, and the birds were centered in a standard 2:3 frame. The birds […]
The Ones I Like List of 2012 [#9]
©2012 Katya Horner A Vision Softly Creeping. It’s what fog does right? To your vision? To your landscape? It doesn’t enter like a drunken streaker rounding third base; it’s cautious. It’s less of a precise moment and more of a blending of seconds. It creeps. 2012 brought a slight shift in how I think […]
The Ones I Like List of 2012 [#10]
©2012 Katya Horner The Beautiful Creatures. They inspire early morning rises and provide me with those all too important zen moments. Deer. I love them. This is the sixth time a photo of deer […]
The Ones I Like List [2011]
So it’s time for my year-end “The Ones I Like List.” Of course, since I never even finished my 2011 “The Ones I Like List,” posting my 2012 favorites seems a bit premature. So shall we revisit the 2011 selections? I actually managed to post #10 before the blog “went dark,” and you can see […]
The Ones I Like List of 2010 [#1]
©2010 Katya Horner. All rights reserved. two deer on green. It’s their complete disregard for me – or acceptance of me – that beguiles. I chose two deer on green because of the deer, the fog and the unnerving silence. I chose it because it represents a kind of stillness that is synonymous with creative confidence, a stillness […]
The Ones I Like List of 2010 [#2]
©2010 Katya Horner. All rights reserved. almost fairytale season. When I went to Stowe, Vermont in September of 2009, I was instantly a convert. Until then, Asheville, North Carolina had my go-to happy place — the Blue Ridge Mountains, the formidable arts community, the Biltmore’s lush and spacious grounds. I didn’t think that any U.S. location […]
The Ones I Like List of 2010 [#4]
©2010 Katya Horner. All rights reserved. School Bus. You know what would make for a great photo? A bunch of children taking recess in an urban setting, a playground, specifically – cement, not grass. Oh, and fog. In Houston, fog typically takes its last breath around 10 a.m., so the likelihood of that kind of […]
The Ones I Like List of 2010 [#6]
©2010 Katya Horner. All rights reserved. Blooms and Bokeh. I’ll admit it. I’m less than enthusiastic about this year’s list. It isn’t that I think poorly of the individual photos in the countdown. I really do like them. I might even love a few of them. It’s just that on the whole they don’t resonate […]