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Spring Is Almost Here -- One Last Look At Snow!

March 09, 2013  •  Leave a Comment

We haven't had much snow this year on the piedmont of North Carolina; it's always briskly refreshing to note that snow can make a fantastic landscape!

Galena Snow Galena Snows Galena Snow All photos taken in Galena Territories, Galena, Illinois 


And You Just Have To Laugh

March 06, 2013  •  Leave a Comment

Some photographs are just down right funny --

Blowing Rock

Blowing Rock


Blowing Rock, NC, Is A Fun Area!

March 04, 2013  •  Leave a Comment

Blowing Rock along the Blue Ridge Parkway in the southern Appalachian Mountains is a very nice mountain town with lots to see and do.

Blowing Rock Blowing Rock Retired gas pump

Doc Watson Who else? - Doc Watson!


Badlands National Park, South Dakota — Revisited

March 02, 2013  •  Leave a Comment

The photos in this gallery were taken in June, 2008, but were only recently reprocessed and posted.  The hard light at sunset sliding under an impending thunderstorm makes for dramatic lighting --- and, just so you know, so dramatic that the colors and saturations were, for the most part, not cooked in the kitchen.  Some of the "best light" I have ever seen ---

Badlands National Park, SD Badlands National Park, SD Badlands National Park, SD

 


Abstract Photographs - They Are Whatever You Want Them To Be!

February 28, 2013  •  Leave a Comment

Abstract imagery is a totally personal business --- some like it --- some don't.  But it can be fun in colors and shapes --

Volcanic lava surface in the Galapagos with colored filter

Christmas lights in Chicago 

And now for my personal favorite, reflection of sail boat mast in Lake Michigan

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