Best Photos
of the Year
Posted: December 31At the end of each calendar year I go
through the photos I have taken during the year to identify
those I think are my best efforts. This was not a good year for
landscape photography in the Tetons as we had
forest fire smoke conditions virtually all
summer long.
Offsetting the poor
photographic opportunities in the Tetons, at
least I was
able to take some nice photos in St. Louis
during the spring and fall months, experience
Factory Butte in southern Utah for the first
time in May on the way out and revisit one of my favorite locations
for photography... Badlands NP... on the return
trip to St. Louis.
I shot mostly with my Canon R5
mirrorless camera this year. Due to its in-body
image stabilization, I mostly shot hand held. I
don't know if that will be my norm going forward
but it seemed to work out pretty well.
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Forest Park
Posted: December
10
When I woke up this morning we had foggy
conditions so I decided to visit some of my
favorite Forest Park locations to capture some
"moody" images. The conditions weren't as foggy
as I had hoped but I believe I got some decent
captures for my efforts.
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Lafayette
Square
Posted: November
16
I had lunch (meatloaf) at Sqwires with the
Quirk's and Mary Strope. After lunch, I did some
photography in the Lafayette Square area. There
are some really photogenic homes in the area as
well as Lafayette Park. After my last fall photo
outing, I thought fall colors were trending
"past peak". Boy was I wrong!
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Missouri
Highway 19
Posted: November
11
First time ever driving Missouri Highway 19
south from Cuba, MO. Colors seemed to be mostly
"past peak".
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Tower Grove
Park
Posted: November
10
After lunch, I went to Tower Grove Park to check out
the fall colors. Things seemed close to "peak".
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Fall Colors
Posted: November
09
After lunch, I went to Forest Park to check out
the fall colors. Things seemed close to "peak".
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Shaw Nature
Reserve
Posted: November
08
Rick Schuessler and I decided to hit Shaw Nature
Reserve today to catch some fall colors. We
certainly did not expect to be treated to such
WONDERFUL clouds. They were simply quite
spectacular.
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About Shaw Nature Reserve -
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Emma
Scharff Senior Photos
Posted: November
07
Today I went back to the Sandy Creek Park
covered bridge to take Senior photos of Emma
Scharff. Mother Tiffany was the "studio
director" and sister Lily was the hair and
makeup artist. My function was to point the
camera and depress the shutter button.
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Sandy Creek
Covered Bridge
Posted: November
04
Another day on my quest for Fall colors. This
time I dove Highway 21 south from St. Louis.
These photos were taken at the Sandy Creek
Covered Bridge State Historic Site.
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Tower Grove
Park
Posted: November
03
Another day on my quest for Fall colors. This
time in Tower Grove Park. I believe this is park
is the prettiest in all of St. Louis. Others may
not agree but that's my take.
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St. Charles
County
Posted: November
02
Went looking for Fall colors in St. Charles
County... Augusta & Busch Wildlife. Colors are
not peak as yet but it was a nice outing.
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Riverfront
Graffiti Art Wall
Posted: October
25
There is a two mile stretch along the
Mississippi River where artists paint murals on
the levee walls. Many are very good. This was my
second time visiting. From memory, it seems that
their are many new murals.
I then drove through the Lemp neighborhood of
downtown to catch a few snaps.
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Emma
Scharff's 18th Birthday Celebration
Posted: October
11
We gathered together to celebrate Miss Emma's
18th birthday this evening. A good time was had
by all especially the birthday girl.
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Badlands
National Park
Posted: September
18
Rick Schuessler and I are in Badlands National
Park for a few days on our way back to St.
Louis.
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Glacier
National Park
Posted: September
16
Rick Schuessler and I drove the Going to the Sun
Road in Glacier National
Park today.
We both agreed that much like Rocky National
Park, it is difficult to get outstanding photos
along the main park road. The scenery is too
vast to be adequately captured by a camera.
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Craters of
the Moon
National Reserve
Posted: September
05
Today Mary & I visited Craters of the Moon.
On the way back, we stopped in Arco and had a
fantastic meatball sub sandwich.
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About Craters of the Moon National Reserve -
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Yellowstone
National Park
Posted: September
04
Today Mary & I visited Yellowstone National Park. We
went to the Mammoth Hot Springs area which I
normally don't do.
So glad we did as I got some nice photos.
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Grand Teton
National Park
Posted: September
01
Went to Grand Teton National Park today with my
good friend Mary Lacy. We first visited
Schwabacher Landing but were not able to
complete the whole hike due to trail
restoration.
We then hiked to Hedrick Pond.
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Teton
Valley
Posted: August 26
I decided to further explore some more roads
that head west from Highway 33. The skies were
nowhere as clear as yesterday but I persevered
in my quest!
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Teton
Valley
Posted: August 25
Today was a nice day weather wise and the smoke
situation was quite a bit better. I decided to
get out of the house and snap a few photos. The
photos are sort of a hodge podge of subjects.
I drove 5000 South to the point where it dead
ends at the Teton River and took quite a few
photos along the drive. In the evening, I was on
a Zoom meet up with the Teton Photography Club
and I happened to look out my window around
sunset. It looked like it was going to be a nice
one, so I broke away from the meeting for a bit
to capture some sunset photos outside my front
door.
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Music on
Main
Posted: August 12
This was the last Music on Main of the summer
(and it didn't rain). My visiting guest Ted
Roche joined me on this outing. Pictured
above is my good friend Jess Collins (left).
This was only the second time we had seen each
other this summer and had some catching up to
do.
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Music on
Main
Posted: August 05
Another rainy Music on Main tonight. Pictured
above is the birthday girl Robin Mill (far left)
and the Fab Four plus One.
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Casa Budde
West Sunset
Posted: July 21
We had some pretty nice clouds at sunset last
night so I decided to break out my camera to
catch a few snaps.
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Curtis
Canyon
Posted: July 17
The Teton Photography Club had a social/photo
event at the Curtis Canyon Overlook. This was my
first time visiting that location. The skies
were very, very hazy as you can tell from these
photos but it looks like a do-again-able
location to return to in the future.
This is the first time the club has had an in
person meet-up since COVID began.
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Music on
Main
Posted: July 15
The weather was
a bit funky tonight so I only stayed for the
first musical group.
Pretty good crowd considering the weather.
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Music on
Main
Posted: July 08
This was my
first Music on Main of the summer. I didn't get
around to taking many photos as I ran into my
good friend Julie Reggio (pictured above) whom I
have not seen for two years. We had a lot of
catching up to do!
The last number of photos were taken when it was
pretty dark at ISO 16,000. They are noisy when
enlarged but look pretty good here at the
smaller sizes.
Large crowd on hand. The band was the Young
Dubliners.
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Factory
Butte
Posted: May 30
The next
morning we went to Factory Butte for some
sunrise photos.
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Factory
Butte
Posted: May 29
We drove from
Denver to Hanksville Utah today with a stop in
Vail to have lunch with former Wash U volleyball
player Anna Byniarski. Once in Hanksville, we
went to Factory Butte for a sundown shoot.
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Emma
Scharff Soccer - Clayton
Posted: April 08
Went to see
Emma play soccer against Clayton on the U
City field.
These shots were all taken hand-held with
the Tamron 150-600mm lens.
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Tower Grove Park
Posted: April 07
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Forest Park
Posted: April 05
Beautiful 80
degree afternoon, so I decided to make a
trip to Forest Park and capture some Spring
landscapes.
These shots were all taken hand-held.
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Forest Park
Posted: January 13
The
temperature was in the 50's and I had not
done any photography this year so I decided
to go to Forest Park for a bit. My goal was
to capture the stark look of the trees
without leaves.
These shots were all taken hand-held.
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