I am glad you came to visit... bring your heart to share and make a circle around the world! Photography is a way of reaching out our hands across the world, and helping one another... with a photo full of the beauty of nature, the glory of light you can lift one another out of dark times and travel toward the light together...

 

#1 (series) by Starlisa, on Flickr">Let Your Light Shine!~    Columbia Gorge from Above <a href=#1 (series)" />

  

Like many other people in this sometimes challenging world, I have lost more than my share it seems of loved ones, including my husband, mother and father, and it has given me a strong sense of wanting to value that which I love, both people and Nature...

I have remembered to look for the beauty, to see the Light in the world around me, with the help of others worldwide, and then to SHARE that light and joy with others!.

 

This image was a spiritual gift from my Mother on her birthday a few years after she passed away, and is currently a local magazine cover for Klickitat County, Washington.

 

Land of the Light

 

My photos are all copyrighted, please contact me if you wish to use them for any purpose Do not use any without asking first...Thank you for your respect! IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PRINTS OF ANY OF MY WORK YOU CAN CONTACT ME AT starlisa.black@gmail.com FOR MORE INFORMATION AND I NOW HAVE A WEBSITE THAT TIES MANY OF MY LINKS TOGETHER IN ONE PLACE AT

 

starlisablackphotography.com/

 

Like me on Facebook! Starlisa Black Photography www.facebook.com/pages/Starlisa-Black-Photography/1487026...

 

Twitter: twitter.com/StarlisaBlack

 

My Notecards are for sale locally at

Heavenly Grounds coffee shop in Trout Lake, WA;

Artisans in White Salmon, WA;

and at Dickey's Farm Store in Bingen, WA

 

During the summers I am often at the Trout Lake Saturday Market.

I now have a web page for ,my photography www.starlisablackphotography.com

and can arrange sales for notecards, prints, framed prints, canvas wraps and standouts of most any of my images. Contact me through here or on facebook or at starlisa.black@gmail.com to make arrangements. I also license the use of images for web sites.

  

My Daughter has just recorded her second original music album, and you can find links for listening and ordering the CD or the mp3 album here music.leannansidhe.com/

  

I am also a Cloud Addict, and have a great affinity for Altocumulus lenticularis clouds, lenticular stacks. We are blessed with many of these here in the Cascade Mountain Range. I live between Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood and feel pretty blessed to live here! Two of my photos were chosen for the 2011 Weather Guide Calendar by Accord Publishing ; and a third image was in the 2012 Weather Guide Calendar. One was published in the 2013, 2014 calendars, and now one more in the 2015 Weather Guide calendar. You can find it at Barnes and Noble and at Amazon.com

And here are the first three calendar shots

 

Well they say it's my BIRTHDAY......

 

Rainbow in Pucker Huddle

 

Sunday Hat

 

this Mount Hood shot was also printed in January 2012 edition of CROSS COUNTRY MAGAZINE in an article on Mountain Wave Clouds, along with this next image

 

Monster UFO over Mount Adams!

 

The next image of Altocumulus lenticularis stacks near Mount Adams was published in a book called "Weather of the Pacific Northwest" by Cliff Mass, an Atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington

 

FlapJacks for Art (LeapFrog!), bring the maple syrup!

 

Here is a link on cloud types en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud

  

Also, this next image was on the cover of the Infinity Loop travel guide in northern Oregon

 

Cover Shot!

 

so take my hand and come enjoy..

Many of my photos are centered around the Mt. Adams area of southern Washington, and many informational links regarding the area can be found on this photo

 

Dedicated to Digital Sasquatch's Mom...

 

Dedicated to my Mother

Happy Birthday Mom!!!!  (Born 1913, died 2003).            AND 30 Years since Mt.St. Helens blew!

 

And this dedication for my Dad...

Reaching for the Memories

 

Buffalo Breath, a dedication to my late husband David

 

Buffalo Breath Meditation

 

For Mom and Dad, a dedication

 

Yay, Family Love! For Mom and Dad

  

I Love capturing the images I see all around me daily... little bits of life, reflections of the universe and creation, reflections of the Creator's love... gifts from the Mother, divine and earthly....

 

so Life goes on, and the learning continues, and Flickr has only broadened my understanding that we are all human here on this earth, across all borders we love, we hurt... we share and get angry... children are born and grow up, and we see beauty with the same eyes.

 

Thanks to all of you!

Enjoy my humble photos of life and the land as I see it, and please understand if I do not always contact you back, I seem to have more contacts now than I would ever have time for in a year, and so I have to cut back in order to live life also!

 

My photos are all copyrighted, I am willing to share in many cases if I am asked... and I am also willing to sell the use of my photos, just contact me. Do not use any without asking first... it also gives me the satisfaction and delight knowing they are being used.

  

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Darlisa not only is a great photographer, she can make you feel very emotional when she writes too. She's great, the strong she has to keep being in this life, really love that, and her memories, how you describe that. Really love how you detail it, I met you here, in Flickr a weeks ago, commenting shots, and I thought… Read more

Darlisa not only is a great photographer, she can make you feel very emotional when she writes too. She's great, the strong she has to keep being in this life, really love that, and her memories, how you describe that. Really love how you detail it, I met you here, in Flickr a weeks ago, commenting shots, and I thought I was here only for comments and comments and faves, but I see I can find beautiful people here, not speaking about fisical beautiful only, too soul beautiful people, like she :). Love to have a friend like her here in flickr! Hope she continue here, I think she will. Just a great person she is, and a great photographer too!

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March 2, 2010

Starisa/Darisa sees and creates. She sees with special eyes and creates with a glowing enthusiasm for whatever she happens to be doing and for whomever she happens to be with. Now that I know her in person, it's not surprising that she receives so many positive comments on her work. She exudes a positive attitude that … Read more

Starisa/Darisa sees and creates. She sees with special eyes and creates with a glowing enthusiasm for whatever she happens to be doing and for whomever she happens to be with. Now that I know her in person, it's not surprising that she receives so many positive comments on her work. She exudes a positive attitude that comes back to her in many ways. It was a bold stroke to plan a campout with her Flickr friends only a few days before she plans to move halfway across the state. She will have some challenges in her new location in or near Port Townsend, but no doubt she'll rise to meet them all with grace. O yes - her photos; immerse yourself in them. They will captivate you and take you to many places that you never imagined existed.

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August 24, 2009

Me encanta esta galería, toda la magnitud de los bosques, cielos y montañas del oeste de Norteamérica. Realmente un agrado pasar por estas fotos, altamente recomendable. Puro talento, para disfrutar de todos y cada uno de sus sets de fotos. Un abrazo!

December 23, 2008

You know what they say, "a picture is worth a thousand words"; unfortunately there's no single picture in the world that I've seen that can do Darlisa justice, which I guess is going to make keeping this short a touch tricky ;) If there were a picture to describe her there would have to be stars and galaxies involve… Read more

You know what they say, "a picture is worth a thousand words"; unfortunately there's no single picture in the world that I've seen that can do Darlisa justice, which I guess is going to make keeping this short a touch tricky ;) If there were a picture to describe her there would have to be stars and galaxies involved, to give us the wide view and show the scale of her vision, but that would only a small fragment of it. Clouds are what first drew me into her photostream, so obviously there must be clouds too. We need smaller things too, like flowers, for in addition to seeing the beauty of the wider picture she's capable of seeing and sharing the beauty in the intricate details of the world too. Fire, for sure, her wildfire coverage is amazing. We need some Earth in there too. I guess in some ways Darlisa is all around us. Ooops, it looks like I've made her out to be a god; I can't guarantee that (nor can I deny it), all I know for certain is that she's a great photographer and a wonderful friend!

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August 12, 2008

Darlisa is an energetic and dedicated witness to the beauty of our planet. She captures beauty, magesty and wonder of our world in many ways with a very sensitive eye, and always manages to evoke a "wow" from me. Spend some time exploring her stream, and Darlisa will wow you as well. Thanks for being a great flickr… Read more

Darlisa is an energetic and dedicated witness to the beauty of our planet. She captures beauty, magesty and wonder of our world in many ways with a very sensitive eye, and always manages to evoke a "wow" from me. Spend some time exploring her stream, and Darlisa will wow you as well. Thanks for being a great flickr friend!

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July 22, 2008

Well, if I started to describe Darlisa's talent, I probably wouldn't be able to stop. Anyway, none of my words would be sufficient enough to say how gifted she is.....just take a look at her photostream for yourself to see what I mean. All I will say is that behind the talent lies a wonderfully caring and emotive p… Read more

Well, if I started to describe Darlisa's talent, I probably wouldn't be able to stop. Anyway, none of my words would be sufficient enough to say how gifted she is.....just take a look at her photostream for yourself to see what I mean. All I will say is that behind the talent lies a wonderfully caring and emotive person who always finds time to compliment others. She encourages and inspires me with every single word.....and can guarantee she will do the same for you. Flickr wouldn't be the same without you Darlisa......keep it up girl!!!!!!!

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June 22, 2008

I wish I had Darlisa's way with words - it would make describing her wonderful images so much easier! We use very similar P&S cameras and I've been amazed at how creative Darlisa is with hers. Through her photography she's introduced me to her incredible local scenery, plants and wildlife and made me yearn to expe… Read more

I wish I had Darlisa's way with words - it would make describing her wonderful images so much easier! We use very similar P&S cameras and I've been amazed at how creative Darlisa is with hers. Through her photography she's introduced me to her incredible local scenery, plants and wildlife and made me yearn to experience her part of the world for myself. Her photostream is one I visit as often as I can because I know I'll always find an image to enjoy. Thanks Darlisa :-)

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February 16, 2008
*jay~bay* says:

Views - A Testimonial Starlisa (Darlisa), Saw fishing in green, and your hundreds of other photographs on darckr and redbubble. I am struck speechless, by the perfection of almost each photograph! The dedication and meticulous technical precision, is beyond words. I don't think, that I have come across a photogr… Read more

Views - A Testimonial Starlisa (Darlisa), Saw fishing in green, and your hundreds of other photographs on darckr and redbubble. I am struck speechless, by the perfection of almost each photograph! The dedication and meticulous technical precision, is beyond words. I don't think, that I have come across a photographer of your calibre, with such an "immensity of soulful dedication," any time, during my many journeys across the world! Peace and Light to you, and to your lovely and scintillating family always! I keep recalling the exemplary, "spiritual grooming," your sweet, sacred parents, have given you (and your family), with so much love and care (as recorded in the photograph, family love). I am confident, that you are carrying the brilliant torch of royal legacy forward, as effectively & meritoriously, in grooming the younger generation in your family, as your own parents would have liked you to... *mucho~blesso* *wa~ching* Jay.

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February 6, 2008
Ar'alani says:

Sometimes you just find special people in the world, and this girl is one. Not only does she transcend the limitations of her camera and shoot what professional photographers might dream of, but she also takes the time to share her thoughts and comments with others. She's so genuinely sweet, and has such a terrific p… Read more

Sometimes you just find special people in the world, and this girl is one. Not only does she transcend the limitations of her camera and shoot what professional photographers might dream of, but she also takes the time to share her thoughts and comments with others. She's so genuinely sweet, and has such a terrific photographical eye. I always look forward to what she shares next!

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February 4, 2008
basilly says:

God has blessed me in so many ways I can't explain in many areas of my life. I have met so many lovely people here that have touched me in my heart....Darlisa has done just that. Oh how look forward to her comments. When I see her sweet icon I get so thrilled for I know she is going to leave me the most charming an… Read more

God has blessed me in so many ways I can't explain in many areas of my life. I have met so many lovely people here that have touched me in my heart....Darlisa has done just that. Oh how look forward to her comments. When I see her sweet icon I get so thrilled for I know she is going to leave me the most charming and uplifting words! Her quick wit, her gorgeous gorgeous shots of the Northwest, her love of nature has inspired me and influenced me like you wouldn't believe! I've found myself weeping, overcome with joy, and totally in awe of her photographs. She just doesn't go out and start clicking hoping for something good. No. She makes the pictures with her heart. You will be overjoyed with the beauty that abounds in her area and the areas she travels. Looking, seeking and finding that perfect spot on earth to thrill us with...and oh my gosh her clouds. Those clouds are phenomenal...LOL...She is phenomenal in every sense. A woman with a heart as big as Washington and as pure as 24kt Gold! I love her and you will too once you get to know this lovely soul I call one of my best friends in this community of Flickr...visit her and you'll see everything I say is spot on...as we say here in Texas, she is praychous! (precious) I mean it Darlisa...you are!

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December 29, 2007
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Darlisa’s photostream is a wonderful collection of about 2,500 shots mostly of her world in Washington state. She is obviously a nature lover so you will find everything from macros of water drops, plants, and such to the gorgeous landscapes of mountains, lakes, vales, and farms in her part of the world. Her “Lenticu… Read more

Darlisa’s photostream is a wonderful collection of about 2,500 shots mostly of her world in Washington state. She is obviously a nature lover so you will find everything from macros of water drops, plants, and such to the gorgeous landscapes of mountains, lakes, vales, and farms in her part of the world. Her “Lenticular Slideshow” is a classic set of unusual cloud formations that was even featured in publication on the subject. She is so dedicated that she takes three hour walks around her town after work just looking for new and interesting things to shoot. She is a keen observer of local life as well as nature. She loves her kin too, as you will see here. Enjoy the “Star” photographer of Washington.

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December 29, 2007

Magnificent horse pictures first attracted me to look at Darlisa's photostream and then I discovered we both love hiking and photographing the mountains in our own back yards. I always look forward to seeing her newest shots. I can expect to see anything from macros of flowers to moody skies over magnificent mountai… Read more

Magnificent horse pictures first attracted me to look at Darlisa's photostream and then I discovered we both love hiking and photographing the mountains in our own back yards. I always look forward to seeing her newest shots. I can expect to see anything from macros of flowers to moody skies over magnificent mountains. Darlisa is a star!

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November 2, 2007
khasan says:

You obviously love nature: the colors and lines of the world around us ... you do an incredible job of capturing what you see ... keep up the excellent work and I can't wait to see more. Thanks for sharing.

July 3, 2007

Darlisa, one of my best friends here in Flickr. She shoots and shoots till there's no tomorrow! She loves to share with us her wonderful world until you'll get confuse where to comment first! Love this girl so much, she drives me crazy all the time though with laughter...I just love spoiling her with rewards! Keep shoo… Read more

Darlisa, one of my best friends here in Flickr. She shoots and shoots till there's no tomorrow! She loves to share with us her wonderful world until you'll get confuse where to comment first! Love this girl so much, she drives me crazy all the time though with laughter...I just love spoiling her with rewards! Keep shooting my friend! You are one awesome photographer Darlisa! So glad to be your crazy friend! :D

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June 14, 2007

Lied and went to heaven Darlisa star of the blue mountain top nothing escapes her view (finder ;~) and justly so! this contact ...is a keeper day dreams await the shutter her old white tub a bath in the past hot springs flowers with rainbow bubbles zoom snap the fish are jumping! a poem for your testimony a… Read more

Lied and went to heaven Darlisa star of the blue mountain top nothing escapes her view (finder ;~) and justly so! this contact ...is a keeper day dreams await the shutter her old white tub a bath in the past hot springs flowers with rainbow bubbles zoom snap the fish are jumping! a poem for your testimony at the beginning of your stream!

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March 17, 2007