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| best photos of 2012 |
| Posted: December 31 |
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| These photos represent my choice of
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| st. Louis zoo |
| Posted:
December 3 |
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| I was itching to get out
with my camera as the weather is really nice
for this time of the year... 70's today. I
decided to go to the Forest Park Zoo after
meeting a friend for lunch in The Loop. |
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| Chicago |
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Posted:
November
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I was in Chicago over
the weekend following my Lady Bears volleyball team as they
competed in the NCAA Regional tournament. |
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| UAA Championship -
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November
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| This weekend was the UAA
Conference tournament hosted by Emory
University. The Lady Bears wound up losing
to Emory, 3-1, in the championship match. |
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| senior weekend |
| Posted: October
27 |
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| This weekend was Senior weekend for the Lady
Bears and our last home matches of the regular
season. |
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| Shaw nature reserve - st.
Louis |
| Posted: October
24 |
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This was my first ever visit to the
Shaw Nature
Reserve. Unfortunately the fall colors were
mostly past
prime, but this is a place I will definitely
visit next Fall. The colors in the photo above
are not too shabby. |
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| forest park |
| Posted: October
23 |
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Since Fall colors are
about at their
peak, I decided to visit Forest Park this
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| Saturday photo trip to
Augusta |
| Posted: October
20 |
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I decided to take a drive
to
Augusta MO in the hopes of catching Fall
colors at their peak. The leaves were pretty
close to peak and I had a good day.
I went to the
Montelle Winery where there were
lots of folks enjoying the wonderful weather,
the Fall colors, a great band and, of course, a
glass or two of wine. Oh goody. I get to take
photos of pretty women.
After the winery, I drove around the area
looking for some other photo ops. I was able to
get both landscape and detail photos of Fall. I
missed on my attempt at some old buildings as I
was shooting into the sun when the sun was too
high in the sky.
I moved on to the
Busch Wildlife Area, drove the loop road and
stopped at a number of the lakes. The above
photo was taken about one hour before sunset.
I post processed this in Lightroom 4.2 using
some
presets from Matt Kloskowski.
All in all a good day of photography! |
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| Smokies trip |
| Posted:
October 14 |
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Just returned from an excellent photo adventure to
Great Smoky Mountain National
Park with my good
friend,
Mike Margulus. The Fall colors were not
as far along as we had hoped but we got some good shots. |
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| Georgetown, Kentucky |
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Posted:
October 7 |
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| On the way to the Smokies, we saw a sign
promoting a visit to Georgetown, KY. We
decided to try it out. We found this old
house and worked it for some photos. |
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| st. Louis zoo |
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Posted:
September 28 |
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| I visited the Forest Park Zoo
today with my Canon 1-Dx camera and my 500 mm
f/4 lens to see how that combination would work
together. I absolutely love what that lens can do.
It captures colors perfectly and it has great bokeh.
LOVE that bokeh. |
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| st. Louis zoo |
| Posted:
September 23 |
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| I visited the Forest Park Zoo
today with my Canon 1-Dx camera and my 70-200 mm
f/2.8 lens with the 1.4x TC. This is a great lens
combination as a walk-around. I use it for most of
my people photos. |
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| st. Louis zoo |
| Posted:
September 18 |
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| Visited the St. Louis Zoo today. Nice
weather. |
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| new camera |
| Posted:
September 7 |
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| This morning I invested in a new
camera. I purchased the
Canon 1-Dx
at Schiller's Camera in St. Louis. This is Canon's new
top-of-the-line sports camera. |
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| south fork Teton canyon |
| Posted:
September 3 |
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| Hiked the South Fork of Teton Canyon, my
favorite hike on the Idaho side of the
mountains. The leaves were starting to
change colors. |
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| granite canyon |
| Posted:
September 1 |
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This was one of my last photo
outings of the summer. My visitors were Rick & Dawn Scheussler along
with Ray Schulz.
This canyon is not a popular
canyon mainly because it is pretty far from the
normal tourist areas but I find it to be a
particularly pretty canyon. There is also a nice
waterfall and a hot springs fed swimming pool to be
found. |
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| last music on main for 2012 |
| Posted:
August 16 |
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This photo was taken at the last
Music on Main concert of the summer. Music on Main
once again had some great music. It also afforded
the opportunity to take a good many photos of
people... one of my very favorite things to do.
It has gotten to the point where
kids come up to me and want me to take their
picture. |
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Schwabacher landing |
| Posted:
August 14 |
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This photo was taken at
Schwabacher
Landing. I was there with my good friends Larry &
Karen Kotner with whom I went to high school a few
years back. We had been taking landscape
photos including the mountains and the sky in our
compositions. It was very hazy due to the many
western forest fires and we did not seem to be
having much luck. We decided to switch to taking
flower photos. I happened across a patch of thistle
and caught this shot.
By the way, we wound up
deleting the landscape photos from that day
because, even after some post processing, we
were not able to salvage the shots. |
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| bluegrass festival |
| Posted:
August 13 |
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| Attended the Bluegrass festival at Grand
Targhee over the weekend. Great music. Great
folks. Lots of fun. |
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| music on main |
| Posted:
August 9 |
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| Always enjoy Music on Main. My visitors the
Quirks (Mike, Judy, Jim and Jacque) joined
me for the social outing. |
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| signal mountain lodge |
| Posted:
August 8 |
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My friends the Quirks were
visiting. Friends of theirs (and mine) Meryl & Barb
were camping at Colter Bay. After taking Meryl &
Barb for a Grand Teton National Park tour, we all
decided to have dinner at
Signal Mountain Lodge. |
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| red hills |
| Posted:
July 20 |
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My guests for this hike were
Bruce & Betsy Canaga. Bruce has visited 14 of the 16
summers I have had my place in Driggs. We took a
hike in the Red Hills east of Grand Teton National
Park. The hills were so red. The clouds
were so white and the sky was so blue. Let's call
it: Red, White and Blue. Sorry, I couldn't resist
that.
As you can tell from the photo
above, I got some great photos today. Here is an article written by Mike
Jackson about this area. |
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| Targhee fest |
| Posted:
July 15 |
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| This year's Targhee Fest was great as usual.
Great music. Great weather. Lots of folks
having fun. |
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| blue columbine |
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Posted:
July
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I decided to hike into
the South Fork of Teton Canyon in search of
Columbine photos as they were probably about
at their peak. I found lots of flowers. With
the Blue Columbine being my favorite, I
wanted to try some different approaches to
photographing this beautiful flower. |
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| music on main |
| Posted:
June 28 |
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The first of eight
Music on Main concerts was held tonight.
The highlight of the evening for me was
meeting actress Daniela Ruah frrom the TV
program "NCIS: Los Angeles". The sun was
going down rapidly as I noticed this
extremely attractive young lady walk by me.
I thought to myself that she sure looked
like Daniela. As I don't mind speaking to
strangers, I thought I would check this out.
My "hook" to start a
conversation was that a number of years
before I had seen the actor Eric Christian
Olsen, her partner on the show, at Music on
Main with his girlfriend actress Sarah
Wright. Well it turns out that the reason
Daniela was in Teton Valley was to attend
Eric & Sarah's wedding the previous weekend.
In fact Daniela was there that night with
Eric's parents and she introduced me to
them. It seems that Eric's parents
bought an old barn in 2007 which they had
converted to living space.
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| bear lake |
| Posted:
June 23 |
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I was originally planning
a photo outing to the
Grays Lake Wildlife
Refuge but I missed a turn. As I have been
wanting to take a day trip to the Bear Lake
area at the border of Idaho and Utah and I
was almost there when I discovered I missed
my turn... what the hell.
There is a
Bear Lake
Wildlife Refuge and wetlands where I wound
up taking photos. I got a few usable photos
but I would not say the area was worthy of
another visit. |
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| raptor center |
| Posted:
June 17 |
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Each Father's Day,
Teton
Raptor Center in Wilson WY hosts an open
house. I discovered this last year and now
this is on my annual calendar. They have a
number of raptors out in the open (tethered,
of course) where folks can view them. The
handlers will also hold the birds as folks
gather around for a closer view. At some point, a handler
will let a bird fly away and then return on
command. Pretty cool!
Pictured above is a
Golden Eagle. |
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| Schwabacher landing |
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June
6 |
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Steve & Kathy Odenwald
and I took a day to go over to Grand Teton
National Park. Of course, we had to visit
Schwabacher Landing.
Lovely as always.
This photo is of the
beaver dam with the snow covered peaks in
the background. |
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| sand dunes - st. Anthony, id |
| Posted:
June 3 |
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I had always wanted to
visit the
St. Anthony Sand Dunes
only about 45 miles from Driggs. We decided
on a "down day" from hiking, so Steve, Kathy
and I decided that today was the day. Nice
area with some nice photo ops. I plan to
return someday. |
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| trip west |
| Posted:
May 30 |
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I drove out West with
Steve Odenwald. This photo is of
Crowheart
Butte
located just southeast of Dubois WY along
Highway 287. This highway offers some very
nice landscapes. |
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| Compton heights |
| Posted:
May 24 |
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I can't believe I had
never visited this old St. Louis
neighborhood. It has some wonderful homes
with this probably being the most
impressive.
I checked out the
Compton
Heights web site. I can't believe that they
hosted a neighborhood open house just the
weekend before and this house was on the
tour.
I marked my calendar for
next year on the assumption that they host a
tour each spring. |
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| st. Louis zoo |
| Posted:
May 13 |
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I went for a Zoo outing
today. I was set up with my
Canon 500mm to
take photos of the chimps (see below) when
an Amish family arrived at my location. This
young lady was an interesting subject so I
had to get a quick snap of her
(paparazzi-style). Believe me. It is
hard to be sneaky with a 500 mm lens! |
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| Missouri botanical garden |
| Posted:
May 5 |
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Went for a photo outing
to the
Missouri Botanical Garden with my
good friend
Brian Luenemann The flowers
were, as usual, very nice.
I took this
photo and several others at the same time.
This one came out with this weird effect. I
have no idea what caused this effect. If you
have any clues, let me know. I would like to
be able to reproduce this effect. |
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| forest park |
| Posted:
March 16 |
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Went to Forest Park on a
photo shoot with Mike Margulus. Very early
Spring to say the least.
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| Navarre beach Florida |
| Posted:
January 31 |
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My good friends Dave & Tonya
Ferguson invited me to join them at
Navarre Beach
(near Pensacola) where they spend their winter
months. I don't know if you have ever visited the
Florida panhandle but it has some of the prettiest
sand I have ever seen. |
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