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Orion Over the Blue Ridge Mountains in Shenandoah National Park
Bald Eagle at Huntley Meadows
Hooded Merganser Hen Taking Off at Huntley Meadows
Milky Way Rising at Hazel Mountain Overlook, Shenandoah National Park
Wolf Moon and  Moonbow - Composite Photo
Full Moon and Moonbow - Composite Photo
Milky Way's Dark Horse Nebula "Jumping" Hawksbill
White Tailed Fawn and Mother at Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park
Aurora Through the Clouds in Grand Teton National Park
Clouds Streaming Over a Mountain Ridge in Grand Teton National Park
Star Trails Selfie at Jewel Hollow Overlook in Shenandoah National Park
Harvest Moon Sets On the Grand Teton
Pine Tree Reflection in Capitol Reef National Park
Sunset on the Potomac River Near Mount Vernon
Grizzly in the Rain
Pine Tree Reflection in Capitol Reef National Park
Bison Mother and Red Dog (calf) on the Move in Yellowstone National Park on a Spring Day
Milky Way Over Big Springs Canyon - Canyonlands National Park -  The Needles
Great Grey Owl in Yellowstone National Park
T.A. Moulton Barn and Tetons by the Light of a Full Moon in Grand Teton National Park
Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River: Yellowstone National Park
Coyote in Hayden Valley, Yellowstone National Park
Milky Way in Turret Arch, Arches National Park - composite photo
Big Dipper and Polaris in the December Night Sky - AstorBlast filter
Andromeda Galaxy
Milky Way Over TA Moulton Barn - Moormans Row, Grand Teton National Park
Late Season Milky Way Core Over a Barn in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Orion Nebula
Milky Way zFramed by the Trees of the Hazel Mountain Overlook in Shenandoah National Park
Orion Over Big Meadows on a Windy Night
Bison in the Gibbon Meadow
Sunrise Colored Clouds Above Capitol Gorge in Capitol Reef National Park
Star Dune Before Sunrise - Great Sand Dunes National Park
Tent in Evening Light on Mt. Baker Looking Across the Ridges: Mount Baker, Washington
Fishing on the North Fork of the Sun River just above the Gorge: Bob Marshal Wilderness, Montana
Sunset at Crescent Rock on an Early Autumn Afternoon
Mount Moran and Reflection in the Snake River on an Autumn Morning: Grand Teton National Park
Passage Way to Sand Dune Arch: Arches National Park
Snowy Trail #1: Boulder, Colorado
Gray Barn in Snow Field with a Gray Sky #1: Middleburg, Virginia
Wind Patterns on a Snowbank: Colorado
Lower Falls of the Firehole River on a Winter Afternoon
Frost on the Windshield on a Winter Morning
Snowy Blue Ridge Mountains and Barn at Dawn: Greene County, Virginia
Stars and Winter Moonlight at Pinnacles Overlook
Dogwood in the Field During a Blizzard - #2
White Tailed Deer Silhouetted Against the Sunset at Big Meadows on a Winter Night
The Sun Rises Between the Clouds on an Early Autumn Morning in the Blue Ridge Mountains
US Capitol and Reflection at Dawn: Washington, DC
Grass Silhouettte  and a Blue Ridge Sunset
Jefferson Memorial Above the Mist Rising from an Icy Tidal Basin During the First Dawn of the New Year
Spring Sunrise at the Slacks Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway
Hawk in a Tree Silhouetted by a Winter Sunset at Big Meadows
Summer Sunrise at Bear Rocks
Moonset & Memorial: Washington, DC
US Capitol and Reflection at Dawn: Washington, DC
Fireworks, Lincoln Memorial & Washington Monument #10 (B&W):  Washington, DC
Washington Monument and Reflections in the Tidal Basin, on an Autumn Morning - #1: Washington, DC
Remember: Rose at The Wall: Washington, DC
Martin Luther King Memorial and Full Moon at Dawn #2: Washington, DC
Moonrise at USMC Memorial: Washington, DC
Timber Wolf on Road - Lamar Valley
Big Horn Sheep Ram at Logan Pass
Bull Elk in Velvet on a Spring Afternoon in Yellowstone National Park
Wolf in Yellowstone National Park
Bison in the Gibbon Meadow
Blondie and Cubs in Grand Teton National Park
Red Fox Kit Outside Their Den Under my Shed: Falls Church, Virginia
Red Fox Kit Outside Their Den Under my Shed: Falls Church, Virginia
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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
Rock Climber #1: Great Falls National Park, Virginia - Oil Paint Effect
Doug Gordon at 1983 Slalom World Championships - Dry Brush Effect
Petrified Trees in the Snow - Partial Pencil Effect
Breaststroke Swimmer - Pencil Effect
Barn at Dawn with a Dusting of Snow on the Blue Ridge Mountains - Edited
Sun Through the Steam and Pine Trees at Black Sand Basin / Bison Composite
Hilltoppers on Fox Ridge Driveway - Oil Paint Effect
Winter Twilight in Paradise Valley - Dry Brush Effect

January 17, 2026

News

Milky Way, reflection, Yellowston Lake, Yellowstone National Park

Here are some of my favorite photos from 2025.

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 spent about one month last fall in the Tetons / Yellowstone for some wildlife, landscape and astrophotography. Some of the photos are in my Facebook Photos gallery 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. 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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