Category Archives: Photos

Large Format Fireworks

Fireworks can be tricky things to photograph.  With today’s digital cameras, and a lengthy display, one can afford to take hundreds of photos.  I have taken dozens with a 35mm, but this photo was taken with a 4×5 inch Toyo … Continue reading

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Sun Goes Down at Seney NWR

What to do after working in the field all day on wetland plant community survey?  Why not head back out into the field for a short photo expedition? Click to Purchase photo of Seney National Wildlife Refuge  

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Lone Fern

A fern is surrounded my the grass-like leaves of sedges in a Wisconsin, northern hardwood forest. Original photo on Fuji Velvia 50, Scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 5000 and converted to black and white in Adobe Photoshop.Click to purchase fern … Continue reading

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Pumkinseed Sunfish Portrait

Not everyone can afford fancy underwater photography equipment, or have enough time to hone the skills required for this discipline.  While I am exploring the possibility for getting environmental shots with a GoPro Hero it will be difficult to impossible … Continue reading

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Lakeside Trail

 I paused to take this photo of a hiking trail winding through Red Pines along a northern Wisconsin Lake.  There is very little underbrush, and roots sticking out of the dirt to trip you up on this short section of … Continue reading

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Sometimes a Below Average Photo is Still a Great Photo

I pour over my images for hours endlessly saying this photo or that one isn’t good enough to share, what will people think if I put out this mediocre work.  However, not all photography has to be on Ansel Adams … Continue reading

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Bur Oak in Black and White

Bur Oak trees are one of my favorite trees and this individual is perhaps my favorite, probably because it is a big stately tree near my home in Oshkosh, WI.  It rises in an athletic field called East Hall Field. … Continue reading

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Campfire Glow

Camping is one of my favorite activities because it gives me many excuses to do other things that I love like hiking, exploring, photography and sitting around the campfire.   There is something primal about the sight of dancing flames, … Continue reading

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Farm Sunset

While returning from a hiking trip I decided to take a few photos of rural Winnebago County, WI late in the day.  As the sun started to set I thought it would be nice to get a silhouette of a … Continue reading

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Close-up and Hand-held with a Linhof Technica V

You are not supposed to be able to do this.  Many will tell you that hand holding with a 4×5 does not result in good photos; the depth of field is too shallow, the camera shake is too great and … Continue reading

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