Boulder, Colorado, can be a delightful place to live—if you just moved there with buckets of money, or if you relocated years ago when housing prices were more reasonable. This month I visited...
India was a place I’d wanted to visit since I was in my twenties, and when I finally arrived at age fifty-three I had a difficult time getting used to it. Almost all the public spaces I passed...
When I rented a 14 mm lens recently, I found myself trying to zoom the entire weekend. I am almost exclusively a zoom lens photographer. The convenience is hard to beat when I am walking around...
Finding Vivian Maier is playing at the Sie Film Center through Thursday, though only at 2 pm. There’s a slight possibility its run may be extended. Go if you can—it’s a fabulous movie...
Fall 2013 has been a great year for warblers along the Colorado Front Range, including a very late ovenbird.
I traveled a lot in May, which gave me the opportunity to take pictures of new places. I took this picture of an American bittern from the road in Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in central Kansas...
Beth makes her first foray into photography sales.
I’ve been working on my photography site for a while, and I’ve decided it’s ready for public viewing. So head on over to Beth Partin Photos, which is a SmugMug site, check out my...
How Beth got to her radiation treatments at the University of Colorado Hospital from the 15L bus stop at Aurora Court and Colfax. (Unfortunately, she forgot to photograph the sign outside the...
Beth photographs the transformation of a graffiti-plagued building in her Denver neighborhood into a yoga studio.
I had a wonderful evening in downtown Denver Thursday night. It was cool out but not cold, and the streets and bars and restaurants were full of animated people. I got off the B at Wynkoop and 15th...
Todd and I visited both Casa Bonita (his idea) and Colt and Gray (my idea) one night in February, and the only other thing that connected them was that I acted like a crazed photographer at both, to...
Last Tuesday I finally attended a meeting of the Broomfield Photo Club. I had been thinking about it for months, but the meetings were on Tuesday, the same night as yoga class. It wasn’t at all...
I’ve been posting photographs of food on my blog for two years now, but I’ve noticed the results are hit-or-miss, to put it charitably. When I heard about a food photography class being...