Lou Ann Aepelbacher Photography

Evolution of your work, Lou Ann. I love to see how you are getting more and more discriminating. Congratulations!

I Agree with Albert! Very good eye Ann!

I especially like the portfolio on Alaska. Interesting and varied, well composed images. Bravo!

same comments as these guys. Your work speaks loudly for itself. Very nice.

Hi Lou Ann I would only want to say thanks for the time that you have used for to see and to vote all my photos!! I have realy appreciated this. I hope that you a day can leave also a comment, I would be honored!!

seeing your incredible job, I can imagine how much loves to photograph, and how much life to traspare also from the ice!! thanks again R.

269 pictures, tooooooooooo much, I saw the half of it, my computer stops, but what I did see, and like VERY MUCH, is blue nr.1 and blue nr.5

Lou Ann, I'm impressed by the wide variety of subjects, always shot with great skill and sensitivity combined together. Your landscapes are really wonderful. Thanks for having visited my portfolio. I'm proud of that! Wait to see new shots from you. Regards. Roberto.

I like very much your last uploads!
I see lot of improvment in your technique and look. Congratulations!

It has been a lot of fun so far following your work, Lou Ann. I find that your openmindedness, eagerness to learn and improve, and your patience are direct reflection of not only your teaching profession, but of a fine, adimarable individual. Keep up the work you're doing and always remember to have fun (which I think you already know how.) ^_^

Lou Ann- You'd probably make an excellent editorial (magazine) photographer because of the prolific nature of your work; lots of choices is an editor's dream! I suffer from the reverse fate; trying to achieve too much perfection in a single image. I know I'd benefit with a more happy medium? Just like finding a solution to a variable equation. You have many images that are outstanding from the start. I'd love to see you experiment more. So get crazy, feel free to try some different software enhancements. You don't have to post them if you don't like them. But I think it could be quite fun for you to push the boundaries a bit?

I respond very positively to many of your wildlife images and many of the Alaska pieces are superb too. You've got a great eye and an instinctive sense for image creation. I tend to think the more successful images are the ones that present simpler or fewer elements in the image (like the Bald Eagle or Emerald Bay image). The architectural images contain many very powerful visual patterns too and the ones that strike me the least are more of the post-card type shots. Here I don't think your obvious artistry is at the fore. Very solid portfolio overall.

P.S. I used to live in Lyons, New York (farm with rural delivery (RD) address) after finishing school at RIT. I also taught (elementary art 2-6) in the North Rose-Wolcott school district near Sodus Point. I am also a SUNY Oswego alumn! Good to have you here on the site. Please feel free to drop me a line if you like?

Lou Ann, you have an outstanding collection of photos, such a variety. Keep up the great work and we can watch each other grow together. Cheers, Sondra

Thanks for pleasing us with your wonderful collection.

Lou Ann, I love the clarity and directness of your vision. But then you will suddenly come up with a shot like the bird's track across the snow covered boards (one of my favourites - of the shots I can see before the download stops!) where you leave us to guess the story. It is a pleasure to see the world through your camera lens. regards - Colin

Hi Ann took me quite a while going through portfolio and still I am not done. So many images on diferent thoughtfully selected subjects. Beautiful rendition of ideas. You have a keen eye and your composition are very thoughtful. I have browsed all folders but I particularly liked the Most Recent Uploads, Flora & Fauna My Favorites, Your Favorites, Portraits & People, Fun!!, folders....

very well selected photos in ur portfolio...profissional grade....good eyes

You have very nice portfolio, I'd love to see more...

Seeing such hefty portfolio is indeed a humbling experience and a great motivator for me to get off my huge bum and shoot :-))

Keep up the excellent work.

nb: thanks for your comments on "Precision & control".

nice works.............

jaya

very beautiful portfolio!

Happy New Year! Thank you for all your support and comments on my photos in 2005. May 2006 be a very good year for you and your family, Best wishes from Dallas Texas

Lou Ann, I'm glad I came across your work. So many different topics you cover and some really stunning images! I'll surely be back to have another look here!

What a richness! Many astonishing things. Sincere congratulations!

Lou Ann, A wide variety of sujects and topics done very well. It was a truly enjoyable experience to browse through your work. I learned a lot. Thanks for your comments on my photos. I did use a tripod for both shots.

Hi, I visit after one of your critiques to one of my photos. You have a lovely, evocative portfolio especially of the USA. Congratulations!

Thank you for your kind enquiry. I live in Annandale, [Northern Virginia] and in Houston [The Great State of Texas]. But I work in Falls Church/Fair Fax area [Inova Hospital].

Yes, as you mentioned we seem to have taken photographs in similar locations. I am humbled by your awesome portfolio. Your portfolio is very diverse and authentic. I will re-visit your portfolio as often as possible to learn from you talent.

Live Long & Prosper.

~Julius

I'm really impressed by your portfolio Lou Ann. You have so many great pictures that I really don't know where to begin. In particular your ice pictures of Alaska are fabulous but that also counts for your Nevada, Canada and Colorado folder. The diversity in your work strikes me. It shows that you are a person who have many interests and I like that.

I wish that you will continue to make your wonderful work, Lou Ann. I will keep visiting and commenting your work, that is for sure. But please, don't pay attention to my poor English.

Warm Regards, Ada:~)

Wow! Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for sharing your portfolio, it is inspiring to see works like this on photo.net. Regards, Bill G.

Nice to see a portfolio with so much variety, all well done!

Thank you for the interest on my photos. I am just arrived from my work ( I am a doctor in the hospital of my city) , now I am tired but next days I shall come back on your portfolio: ciao, Maurizio.

You have a great portfolio Lou Ann, thanks for your compliments on my londoneye photo.

Regards,

Ozgur

Great portfolio I like very much, a good eye... my compliments

Thank you for your comments. You are too kind. I see that your photos are not just made from the reflection of the light, they are also made from feelings... And that's what I like and I'm trying to do with my photos. Regarding "The London Eye", i used a compact camera (Fuji S5500) so i did not had much choices... the lens is verry good though. I'm still in the learnig phase and that camera is just what I need (and afford) for the moment:-)

Best regards, Robert

Dear Lou Ann, I've just spent a great time watching your lovely photos of the many different and magnificent places you went to, some of which I know very well and reminded me of the great time I spent there. You have a wonderful eye for photography indeed, but also great empathy and love for the world and people around you, which we can feel in all your photograph. Beautiful. Have a good Independence Day! Warmest regards from Paris, a tres bientot, Laurent.

Very beautiful portfolio Lou. I love the sense of color and contrasts that I come accross in your photos.

Great portefolio you have here. Lots of good pictures. Thanks for your comments. It is always appreciated, even if they are good or bad. I am a newbie to that SLR. Bought it in May this year. It is nice that you like Scandinavia, and you are welcome whenever you want. I have answered your comment on that bridge. Just some information about that picture. Keep on showing us your pictures, and you can contact me on mail or whatever you want if there is anything you are wondering about. Regards!

...Torfinn

You have a very nice portfolio, photographs in all styles, I like the fact that you experiment a lot of genres. I wish you good luck and keep up the good work!

Kind regards, Anca

great portfolio , i like the diversity of your subjects

Good portfolio.I like your variety of photos.Please keep shooting and show me.

Thanks for dropping by Lou Ann. Your critique is very encouraging!! And your portfolio is so amazing, simply masterpiece!! World should know you!!

For all the constructive comments, I appreciate!

S

Great portfolio, with a lot of strong images

Lou Ann--great portfolio------nice stuff---the rocks you were asking me about are called the Flower Pot rocks--they are at the foot of Fundy National Park in New Brunswick(check out the New Brunswick tourism site for more details)----they are quite incredible--and yes they are formed that way by the water--I hope you get a chance to visit---the water looks like chocolate milk----ML

Lou Ann, great stuff in here! You've got a great eye and technique on some wonderful compositions. I loved the Solomon's Island photo, I go there twice a year and visit my clan on the Maryland shore for rockfishing expeditions. Your photos of Virginia and Maryland make me wax nostalgic. Keep up the good work and thanks for your comment on my Yosemite photos. Best Regards, Chris

Nice stuff, Lou Ann. A very un-encumbered (natural) way of looking at things. Just scrolling down, I was gonna comment on a couple of them but found myself looking at more and more of them, so I figure that I'd better shut up before writing a romance novel here (grins). All has a feel I love... Regards...

I enjoyed coming back. Some very nice new additions. Do keep them coming. Cheers.

it is nice to see a portfolio with so much variety, and good quality congradulation, Marc

Fantastic gallery you have here! I'll be a frequent visiter to see what you have in store for us.

Congrats!

Lou Ann, you have an extensive collection of great photos. Really enjoyed your Alaska folder a lot. Look forward to seeing the rest as dial-up allows. ~Sky

You and Your Work have a LOT to Give. Many Thanks for that. Thank you also for all your kind and helpful comments through the years. Keep up the Good Work. Baldur

There is everything a man could search for, and in the best edition!

How could I expect something else?! I must explain the reason why I haven't seen this wonderful portfolio before: I live in a criminal country with criminal servers and, believe it or not, it is (was, I hope) impossible for me to expect that I could open completely a portfolio of over 500 thumbnails!

A deep bow your Ladyship!

Enchanted Pierre Dumas Esquire, the humble!

Hi Lou Ann, Thank you for your comments. I agree with you that the Peggy Cove picture could be brighter - after looking at it from a properly calibrated monitor. I think my monitor calibration at home is off. In any case, thanks! I like your portfolio very much -such a versitility in your subject areas!

Thanks for taking the time to look at my pictures. I really like 'Color' in your favourites folder. The Southwest USA is a definitely worth the trip ( about 10000 miles round trip for me). I was in Bryce in mid august, and although busy, the crowds weren't that bad in the early hours. I only had 3 weeeks to visit california, arizona, nevada and utah, so I missed a lot. I hope to return, and would love to see it in winter.

Good Luck,,James

Well, you've certainly been around!! Very nice variety of subjects and themes, unified by a personal style that permeates through all the photographs. Good work. Emmanuel.

Lou Ann, I just love visiting your portfolio! Your stuff is so good, and I'm always picking up great ideas. I really like all of your new stuff, especially the USCGC Eagle series. Wow, you're a hard act to follow! Best Regards, Chris

Lou Ann, being a long-time resident of the SW USA for 25+ years, I'm gonna e-mail you some thoughts regarding your intinerary tomorrow. So, check your e-mail and let me know what you think. Best, Chris

I finally think I've made it through your portfolio,( took me alwhile:)) And why because its diverse, fun, exciting, and like playing a game of where in the world is Lou Ann? I LUV LUV the Alaska and England images, thse two folders are impecable. Not saying that any area is lacking;0) I appreciate all of your kind words on my images, and hope to see many more from you in the future.. Cole

Thanks for the comments. I live in Bethesda and just happened to see the memorial before the sun went down this afternoon. Your shots are great and it looked like it was a beautiful time of day. Lovely job. -Chris

Some of these images of Americana seem like what Norman Rockwell would do with a camera. Very nice job L.A. -Justin

Hi Again Lou Ann.You recent upload of the Hard Rock sign is quite nice. I was particularly drawn to the group on the Air Force Memorial. One could clearly spend a day or two at that spot alone!

Xmas is not only a Christian festivity, it is also a wish of rebirth, of continuous change considering the new year, who will like you more and more a human being! Good your Xmas and good 2007! Maurizio.

Lou Ann, You have a wonderful portfolio, full of life. Your landscapes show a vision and clarity that most photographer never achieve. Your sense of timing, in your portraits, is perfect. I especially like the dog and the scarf. Thanks for sharing both the photos and a peek at your soul.

Hello Lou Ann

I wish you, your family and your friends a merry Christmas and a very happy new year. Thanks for all your support, ratings and comments on my photos in 2006. It helped me a lot to improve my shots and I hope I will be able to learn a lot more from your valuable inputs in the coming months. Wish you a successful 2007 with a lot of nice photos. And best of luck with the Clique404 project. Steve mentioned it to me in a mail and asked me if I would like to contribute and I hope I will be able to be in touch from Feb.2007 (Going home for a month.

Rejith Warrier

Hello friend

I would like to wish you and your family Happy Holidays and a Good New Year! And say thank you for your support with your ratings and comments on my work over the last year. We are hoping to post some good weather photos this year. We start shooting sky photos in April thanks again for supporting my work.

Best wishes Ken Fugate Stormphoto.net

Dear MS Lou Ann

Very nice shots. Your Landscape and Architecture is wonderful.

i love your work.. very artistic and creative... i am new to photography and hope to learn much from artists like your self... keep its up, and good luck.

Your portfolios are impressive and it's well organized.

Thanks for sharing...

Very nice portfolio. I especially enjoyed the Washington DC images, as I am taking the grandchildren there later this year.

Best regards, Tammy

hola lou, very nice portfolio, congratulations.

Eduardo

Hi, Lou. You got some really exciting pictures here.I really like your Alaska folder. keep em coming.

hi there: good luck with moving to colorado...wonderful place to get a jobe as aphotographer.....you'r portfolio is very well showing the art you can produce

Lou Ann,

I really enjoyed your portfolio. Seeing so many shot that I am taking myself was amazing. Best of luck in Colorado.... I can't wait to see what you find there.

Kind regards,

John

I'm happy to discover your portfolio. Several things stand out. First, your pictures capture a great feeling of life. Also I like the touch of whimsy that is presnent in many of your shots and finally You have a remarkable way with color. Excellent work.

I found your portfolio by chance and found that we have been to some of the same places and shot from the same places. Maybe I was standing on your footsteps! Well balanced portofolio with some very nice pictures. Best wishes, Julio.

Thanks for visiting my little portfolio... you have a wonderfully diverse and entertaining collection here in yours. Regarding "Fall Mosaic", no, it was in 2006. My wife and I will make our annual Fall Trip next month, but with the drought conditions this summer, we don't anticipate the same amount of color. Good luck in Colorado!

Thank you for visiting and commenting on one of my images. Based on the dates from you PN biography I assume you are already here in beautiful Colorado...good luck with your move and I am sure you will like it very much here. Nov 19th update...I just saw the note in your profile page...too bad you didn't like living in Colorado...Good luck.

Yours is a multifaceted, varied portfolio with many interesting images. I will come back. (No I am not the Governor of California)

Thanks for visiting my portfolio again, your comments are always just too kind. I'm honored that someone with your portfolio resume finds my hobby enjoyable.

As mentioned in my last post here, we did make our way to the Smokies again this year, and while the color wasn't quite up to last year's standard, it was well above average.

Thanks again!

Lou Ann, congratulations.

Joaquin.

Your comments are a great boost to my work. By the way, I just added you to my list of interesting poeple with one other. { I told you I was learning! } Keep up the good work!

Hello Friend!

Well here it is another year is passing away and we are coming into the holidays. I think time starts to go faster as we get older, it was just yesterday I wished my friends Happy Holidays and here it is again the end of a year. The holiday lights are starting to be put on some of the trees here in Dallas, we were out last night and some were lighting the trees. I wish for you all a holiday season with family and friends, after all is said and done all we have is each other.

I want all of you to know just what your comments and ratings on my work means to me, your words are my motivation, my drive to discover, to learn this art that we all love, thank you for taking time and thank you for caring about my works. At the same time thank you for letting us see your world, our lives are so much the same, we all care about our families and friends and we all share the same things, maybe someday our photos will help make for a lasting world peace. May you and your family be blessed this season.

Happy Holidays and Happy Shooting

Ken

Lou Ann I love your portfolio, it is so diverse. You really get around don't you? Wonderful work, it was so much fun to look at.

Thank you for your words of encouragement. Sometimes I get in a funk and things just come out wrong. Then someone comes along and picks me up. I think it 's the weather, nothing but dreary rain. I can't wait for snow. That, and I've been pushing myself to the point that I've been slacking on my studies,and posting less than my best. I'll get over it. Stay tuned :-)

Dear friend, last Saturday night, my wife and I, had a big incident with our car (?head-on collision?), and we are alive for miracle: anyway, these not good moments, become also?good moments!... indeed, in these occasions, we can understand that life is so? breakable, for not being happy every day to awaken, drink a coffee, to smile, to make love and other simple things, to meet people and, why not, to do photographs! For doing these things we don?t need a lot of money and power:?we need only our life and the capacity for surprise of simple things. I have had a big gift, for this Xmas and the New Year,?that is to say,?I?m alive!...and now, I know, I?ll love more life! My dear friend! I wish to you the same thing, namely, the ability to transform the accidents of life in?happiness to live better and to give the proper value to your life and to that of other! ?Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!....Ciaomau!

Happy new year and a lot of great photos in this new year

Lou Ann. Happy 2008! Thank you for your encouraging comments on my portfolio. I can't believe I have only been on PN for a month. You have a great portfolio yourself. Look forward to seeing more. Jeanne

Lou Ann, having just inherited a bagful of cameras,lenses and assorted goodies I'm having a wonderful time clicking and hoping here in the U.K. The talent on photo.net is obvious and I'm rapidly lengthening my list of 'Interesting People': I came across this portflios by accident - Well Done ! .. you've actually shown me that one doesn't have to look too far afield to find subjects that can captivate.

I really like your Denmark and Nevada folders. I did not expect the images you got from the buildings in Nevada and that was a nice surprise.

Maria

Impressive and diverse body of work. Especially like your photos of Denmark - looks like just a beautiful place - hopefully I will one day get the opportunity to see for myself. Look forward to seeing more of your work going forward. Congrats on some great work!

Very diverse, very talented. I look forward to comming back :)

Nyhavn 03 very special view. I like it, so many others of your portfolio. Your name - sorry - sounds German ? BR Joerg

Thanx so much for the comment on my picture, and yeh right now, i'm taking a photography course in school, so we're basically learning about aperture and DOF, so its all good :P, but thanx for the warm welcome and i'm practicing as much as i can right now to get better :D btw.. your porfolio is very nice, i really like the variety, and how there are so much different shots, excellent work!! :)

You have a very nice portfolio...I really like your landscape images. I spent several years in Colorado a while back and really like your GoG pictures. Keep up the good work.

Lady... I like the cut of your Jib! Bravo!

For you!!!...Ciaomau!

I started snooping in your portfolio because I read that you had been to Alaska. Well, it appears that you've been about everywhere else as well! What fun it has been to browse through your portfolio. I also love to travel, and I've been to many of the same places. It's been fun reminiscing through your photos. You have a great ability to capture the character of the places you visit. Bravo!

Hi Lou Ann. Thanks for visiting. I have been meaning to get over here and look around. I have seen your name so many times on P.N., yet for some reason have not been to your portfolio (at least I don't think I have, I would remember a collection this good). Your portfolio is so varied and so many fresh angles on your subjects. I am sure you know that it is a rather large collection and takes some time to digest so I will have to stop over now and then and check on whats new. All the best to you!!

Mark Geist White Zinfandel

Wow, You have a lot of very impressive photos.Keep up the good work.cher..

Hello Lou Ann, you have a beautiful and diverse portfolio. You have travelled around the world and brought back superb images. Great work! I will be back to look at it more carefully.

Take care. Yannik.

thank you for the comment on my photo. I answered some of your questions under the photo. you have a very nice portfolio. I really like your architecture photos, abstract and not. I need to take the time to really look through all of them (though you have so many) as there is a lot I can learn from you, especially in composition.

Your work is technically competent, quite prolific, and has drawn a lot of positive if not very specific comments. You seem to be a dilettante evolving in no particular direction, and it's not immediately apparent what, if anything, you are serious about.

Whatever your aims, I suggest you start a new folder including only the images you feel most strongly about, and that will be perhaps eight to ten of these. They will likely be your best work, but that is not a necessary criterion. The new folder should suggest a direction to follow, a theme to pursue, and you're welcome to take yourself seriously and make a plan to pursue it. In addition to considering what your photos are pictures of, there is also the matter of what they are pictures about, and of how they are pictures of you.

You posted a thread in the Casual Conversations forum about critiquing, and I thought I would come here and practice on you.

Hi Lou Ann- Thanks you so much for heads up on the sizing of my pictures. I am very new at this and would never have thought about it. Also appreciated your explaination on how and why you cropped the WWII Mermorial the way you did. Your portfolio is spendid. I enjoyed it all. I am such a sucker for a good B/W that I really enjoyed B/W Jefferson Memorial. Washington Monument at Dawn is stunning as is The Alaska Range 1. Also enjoyed the pictures of Emerald Bay at Tahoe as I was just there a couple of weeks ago. Unforfunately the smoke from the California fires took some of the fun out of it. Thanks again for your comments and advice. Look forward to seeing more of your work. Best Wishes-Jim Tipton

Lou Ann Thank you for the comments on my photos. I really like the colors you captured in the photos from France. Do you do a lot of post processing?

A quick note...

Charles - thank you for your comment! I am really trying to commit myself to leaving more quality comments on people's images, and appreciate your attempt in turn. Just FYI, I used to have a "best work" folder. But, as I have been using my photo.net portfolio to house my images for my online "business", I have gone to thematic/location folders with direct links. I found that my "best work" folder/images didn't get any more traffic set aside than the other images do. I'll probably rearrange again some day ... but for now, this works best for me.

Jim - the majority of my post processing is white balance, levels, color, contrast adjustments. I post process every photo (specifically for white balance if nothing else), typically tweaking the levels and colors to my liking. Does that answer your question?

Lou Ann, you wandering star, you! I hope you have a Merry Christmas and certainly a Happy New Year. Wishing that 2009 brings you many wonderful photographs and fullfillment of some of your top aspirations and dreams, too! ~Sky

Just a short note to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. It’s been another interesting year on PN and your reviews, ratings and comments have been appreciated. I have also enjoyed all of your postings. I look forward to 2009. Thanks... Mike Mancil, Montgomery, Alabama, USA

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Tom

Terrific travelogue -- and much more! Next time you're in western New York State, check out the Chautauqua Institution, preferably during the programmatic, most populated season, late June through late August. Unique shots abound, as I know from 20-plus years of "giving it a shot."

One shot among your latest images (atop this string) reminded me of a shot I got recently. Attached here.

Best wishes. I like your stuff.

I very much enjoyed my journey through your portfolio, I spent so much time looking through the photos that I could not believe how much time had gone by.

Thank you so much for your gift and sharing it with others such as myself.

Thank you very much for your support and your nice comments during this year!
We wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Lou Ann: Thank you for your support over the past year. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Tom

Lowu Ann: Welcome back! Tom