Picture and a Few Words

Karen also designs photo printed merchandise she calls Picture and a Few Words. They are beautiful Photographs with fun captions.

Sweet Little Monster

caught Red Handed

When Life is a whirlwind

When Life is a whirlwind remember there is no place like home

Young at Heart

When you still feel the wonder of a child despite decades of experience

When Things get overwhelming

Shoot for the Sky

About Karen Shea

Karen is the Web Master and Computer Tech Support for Abandon Reality Photography. She is also the Child Wrangler.

She likes to point and shoot. She loves digital because she can just keep clicking and she can see whether the camera captured what Karen thought was interesting. Karen likes to go on walks and find interesting details to photograph that others walk by everyday without noticing.
Karen uses a Leica D-Lux 3.

Karen has a line of Christmas Tree Ornament which abstract designs derived from highly manpiuated photographs. She calls them Abstract Ornaments.
Karen also designs photo printed merchandise she calls Picture and a Few Words.

Welcome to the Abandon Reality Photography Blog

Photography by Tom and Karen Shea. Pictures of National Parks (Denali, Grand Canyon, Sequoia, Yellowstone) Washington D.C., The Slickee Boys, Weird Stuff and our two beautiful girls, Selena and Diana.

Tom likes to shoot with Nikons, both digital and film, medium format Hasselblad, and large format.

Karen uses a Leica and likes to point and shoot lots of experiment images and see what looks cool.

Abandon Reality means in this age of technology, imaging has little to do with reality. Framing, filters, lighting, cropping and digital manipulation can change an image so much that the final picture has little to do with reality and everything to do with artistic vision.

So, Welcome to Abandon Reality. Embrace the beautiful, the weird, the cool, and the fun. Who needs the boring reality. We have Photography.

Abandon all reality ye who enter here. ;)