I really don't like pictures of myself. That may be true of most people who were not raised on Facebook. Despite that, every once in a while I like to capture myself in a photograph. Some of these pictures are…
I often photograph flowers. They're pretty, they're colorful, and they usually smell nice. But, every once in a while you run into one that refuses to conform. So, when I heard on the news last week about a big old…
Visitors line up to tour the B-29 Superfortress "FIFI" When I wrote about the airplanes at the recent Washington Island Fly-in Fish Boil, I didn't know that an amazing group of World War II airplanes would be in Madison one week…
Unless you live or vacation on Washington Island, Wisconsin, you may never have heard of a Fly-in Fish Boil. It's a rather simple concept really. If you own a small plane, you fly in to the airport on Washington Island. If it happens…
I always seem to be attracted to glass, reflections, shadows, high contrasts. That seems rather strange to me since if I had to define what I most like to photograph I would say nature. And yet, time after time my…
My sister-in-law told my wife that she saw a Great Horned Owl in a tree in her neighbor's yard. During the day it mostly just sits way up in the tree and doesn't move around very much. She wondered if…
I've written about panoramas before, once about making them in Photoshop and once about printing them on my Epson 2000 printer. However, I've never bothered to compare the results of all 6 of the options Photoshop offers for making them. This is…
In the past I've written about taking pictures of shadows and reflections. I've also mentioned how I enjoy photographing the building that houses the Overture Center and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA). So, while reviewing some recent photos it…
Although I've never been an old car aficionado, I do enjoy seeing some of those great automobiles from the days of stick shifts and cheap gasoline. So, when the annual "Cars on State" event was held on Saturday, I headed downtown. Classics like…