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Best Photos of 2012 |
Posted: December 31 |
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These photos represent my choice
of the best photos I have taken this year. |
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St. Louis Zoo |
Posted: December 03 |
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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 |
Posted: November 11 |
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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.
While in the Chicago area, I wanted to drive
into the city for some photography. "The Bean" is located in
Millennium Park. It is a large stainless steel artwork shaped
like a bean. It reflects the shapes of the various buildings and
their surroundings... in this case people.
The weather was overcast and it was
drizzling the whole time I was there but it was still an
interesting sight to see. |
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UAA Championship - Emory University |
Posted: November 02 |
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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 |
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
afternoon. |
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Saturday Photo Trip to Augusta Missouri |
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 |
Posted: October 07 |
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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 |
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
Pictured here is a Red
Panda.
He/she is a relatively new arrival at our Zoo. It is not
out very often but well worth it when it is. This is a
16% crop (i.e., I cropped 16% of the photo leaving 84%)
from the original photo.
The new Sea Lion facility, Sea
Lion Sound,
is just fantastic. You can actually walk under the pool and see
the seals swim by you. Neat stuff! |
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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 07 |
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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 03 |
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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 01 |
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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 |
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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band that performed was Young Dubliners. |
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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. Pictured above is my
friend from high school days Larry Kotner. He and his wife Karen
were visiting.
Some of the notable performers were:
Leftover Salmon, Donna & the Buffalo, Del McCoury Band,
Dave Grisman and Infamous Stringdusters. |
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Music on Main |
Posted: August 09 |
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Always enjoy Music on Main. My visitors the
Quirks (Mike, Judy, Jim and Jacque) joined
me for the social outing.
The band that
performed was Carrie Rodriguez. |
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Signal Mountain Lodge |
Posted: August 08 |
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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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Raptors on the Ranch |
Posted: August 04 |
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This was the first year of this event. I was asked
by my good friend Emily Nichols to come take photos. She used the photos
I took last year in their promotional and communications literature. |
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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 |
Posted: July 08 |
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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 band that performed was Blitzen Trapper.
The highlight of the evening for me was
meeting actress Daniela Ruah from 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 |
Posted: June 06 |
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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 Idaho |
Posted: June 03 |
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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 23 |
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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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Compton Heights |
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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 05 |
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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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