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Autumn
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Monuments & Memorials
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The Grizzly Bear Known as Jam in Yellowstone National Park
Grizzly Bear Known as Jam Near Lake Butte, Yellowstone National Park
Moon and Venus Still Visible in the Dawn Sky Over the Gibbon River at Madison Junction, Yellowstone National Park
Coyote Pouncing in Grand Teton National Park
Autumn  Colors at Schwabacher Landing, Grand Teton National Park
Bull Elk Near Pelican Creek, Yellowstone National Park
Great Blue Heron and Reflections on an Autumn Morning in Huntley Meadows
After the Rain, Autumn Morning  on Difficult Run
Skyline Drive on an Autumn Morning
UVA Rotunda and Lawn on an Autumn Morning: Charlottesville, Virginia
White Oak Canyon Waterfall and Leaves on an Autumn Afternoon
Washington Monument and Reflections in the Tidal Basin, on an Autumn Morning - #1: Washington, DC
Frozen Leaf & Reflections: White Mountains, New Hampshire
Galde Creek Grist Mill on a Rainy Autumn Morning
Bull Elk in Velvet on a Spring Afternoon in Yellowstone National Park
Otters on the Ice - Yellowstone River Above the Falls
Red Fox Walking on Snow: Falls Church, Virginia
Grizzly Bear 399 and her Cub Spirit/Uno/Rowdy/? in. Grand Teton National Park
Timber Wolf on Road - Lamar Valley
Pronghorn Antelope at Golden Hour in Badland National Park
Red Fox Kit in Shenandoah National Park
Grazing Bison Near Upper Geyser Basin: Yellowstone National Park
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and the Milky Way Over Hawksbill, Shenandoah National Park
Milky Way Panorama from the Bacon Hollow Overlook on Skyline Drive - Photo Composite (In Progress)
Geminid Meteor Shower Over Old Rag and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Shenandoah National Park
Milky Way at Seneca Rocks on a Late Spring Night
Star Trails in Double Arch, Arches National Park
Andromeda Galaxy
Star Trails Over the Ravens' Roost Pine Tree on an April Night - Composite of ~ 400 individual photos
Milky Way Over Big Meadows - Composite Photo
Sunrise on Mount Moran and Reflection in the Snake River at Oxbow Bend
Moonrise at Seneca Rocks #2: Seneca Rocks, West Virginia
Sunset at Crescent Rock on an Early Autumn Afternoon
Summer Dawn at Great Falls of the Potomac
T.A. Moulton Barn and Tetons by the Light of a Full Moon in Grand Teton National Park
Sunset Over Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
White Oak Canyon, Autumn Afternoon #2: Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Winter Sunsets Should Still Be Enjoyed
Seastack at Sunset on Davenport Beach
Sunrise and Sunstar in Arches National Park
Blue Ridge Mountains Morning Seranade
Balanced Rock Sunset Silhouette: Arches National Park
Sunrise on a February Morning from Skyline Drive
Devil's Tower and Full Moon at Sunrise: Devil's Tower National Monument
Devil's Tower and Full Moon at Sunrise: Devil's Tower National Monument
Dawn Colors and Old Rag on a Summer Morning
US Capitol and Reflection at Dawn: Washington, DC
Fireworks, Lincoln Memorial & Washington Monument #10 (B&W):  Washington, DC
Moonrise at USMC Memorial: 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
Moonset & Memorial: Washington, DC
Remember: Rose at The Wall: Washington, DC
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Family on an Autumn Afternoon
Family on an Autumn Afternoon
Family on an Autumn Afternoon
Family on an Autumn Afternoon
Family on an Autumn Afternoon
Barn at Dawn with a Dusting of Snow on the Blue Ridge Mountains - Edited
Breaststroke Swimmer - Pencil Effect
Hilltoppers on Fox Ridge Driveway - Oil Paint Effect
Rock Climber #1: Great Falls National Park, Virginia - Oil Paint Effect
Rime Ice Covered Tree at Mud Volcano - HDR Effect
Doug Gordon at 1983 Slalom World Championships - Dry Brush Effect
Winter Twilight in Paradise Valley - Dry Brush Effect
Petrified Trees in the Snow - Partial Pencil Effect

October 3, 2025

News

milky way, upper falls, waterfall, yellowstone river Yellowstone National Park
If you haven't been following my Facebook or Instagram feeds, you my not know that I am back in the Tetons / Yellowstone for some wildlife, landscape and astrophotography. Some of the photos are in my New Images or the Facebook Photos galleries and all of the ones I've processed so far are in the West 2025 gallery.

The photo to the right is available on my FineArtAmerica store as a way for you to order metal or canvas prints or regular photographic prints while I'm still on the road. Please let me know if there's a photo from my current trip that you want me to add to that collection.

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 new fox hunting season has started. Please check my FHC page for my photos from First Day of Cubbing at Millington on 9/1/2025 and 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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