Tim Hill's Fine Art Photography

This fantastic view overlooking the Yosemite Valley is ofetn painted and photgraphed. Rarely however are the conditions just right to caoture one of nature's wonders seemingly filling the valley with its mighty falls.

Inspired by a suggestion from my 12 year old son, I took a series of pictures from the Rialto Bridge at high noon. In two separate trips to Venice, and 7-10 walks over the Rialto, I never again saw the specular highlights that appear this day.

Gulls perched in front of the ferry on the way to Galveston Island, TX

This is an early evening shot overlooking the Santa Maria Della Salute. The gondoliers create ghostly inages through their motion. The texture of the canvas enhances the mystery of "The Ghosts".

The moon oversees sunrise on Michigan avenue.

Venitians are used to walking everywhere. We tourists take thVaporetti (water buses) or gondolas. Unless they are on their way to work, Venetians generally walk.

Another photographer out earlier than me. Venice, Italy

Galveston, Texas - The clouds are on their way out to sea in the afternoon.

Rush hour on the Grand Canal

The Ventian ruling class peers over the edge and down on the less fortunate, or are they Venetian magistrates who are keeping a watchful eye over these same citizens?

Fishing the Ventian lagoons

Lake Luzen, Switzerland

Children take a moment atop a breakwater to gaze at the tanker steaming over the horizon. Near Venice, Italy.

Shining beacon draws my eye down a Chicago street.

The Bridge of Sighs is an oft photographed structure, but the real magic it creates comes though how it frames the everyday life of the gondolier.

South of San Francisco, along the coast.

The bell tower in St. Mark's Square - Venice, Italy.