Chris Ried

An outdoor landscape view as the sun sets with some weeds in the foreground. 

ocean waves crashing on shore during daytime

After a week of vacation on the beautiful beaches and the morning after Hurricane Zeta left a wavy coast, I was able to get an early snapshot of the beautiful coast and the swirls of the waves. 

brown black and white butterfly on pink flower

Following macro shot was taken at Cheekwood in middle  October. 

Halogen filled blown glass forming a brilliant structure which was installed at the Cheekwood Gallery in Nashville, TN  

brown and grey island hill during cloudy day

My grandmother from Austria used to make these straw stars as gifts. These came from my mother last year and we were able to put them on the tree this year for the holidays.   Here was another examples of these stars.