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Grand Tetons | a 7 Image Story
Grand Tetons | a 7 Image Story Are the mountains calling you? Rising sharply from the flats, the Grand Tetons contain pristine lakes, alpine terrain, and incredible wildlife. Fall brings deep colors to accent the already magnificent Grand Tetons Mountains. These...
Coyote | a 7 Image Story
Coyote | a 7 Image Story Coyotes are savvy, clever, and wild members of the dog family that have adapted to changing American landscape. They inhabit forests, mountains, prairies, and deserts as well as cities and small towns. In fact, they can be found in most...
Gators Galore | a 7 Image Story
Gators Galore | a 7 Image Story The American Alligator resides in the southern United States particularly in the Everglades near Everglades NP. Clearly, the Everglade's environment is an alligator’s playground. It remains the iconic animal of the Everglades and...
Storm Clouds | a 7 Image Story
Storm Clouds | a 7 Image Story Storm clouds fascinate many people including me. Most of us can not just go out and find a nice storm to photograph. Good storm images tend to be captured on the fly while photographing something else. The photographer happens to be...
Minolta XTsi to Yellowstone | a 7 Image Story
Minolta XTsi to Yellowstone | a 7 Image Story This trip to Yellowstone was my first. My newest camera at the time was the Minolta XTsi Maxxum. It had several new electronic features, but the basic camera was more consumer than the more professional Minolta XG-9. ...
Summer Walkabout Flowers | a 7 Image Story
Summer Walkabout Flowers | a 7 Image Story Sometimes, my walkabouts bring to mind simple pleasures. The walkabout might not run across any wildlife or even nice landscapes, but simple flowers always brighten my day on summer walks. On this walk lilies seemed to...
Kodak Signet 30 to Garden of the Gods | a 7 Image Story
Kodak Signet 30 to Garden of the Gods | a 7 Image Story My first trip to the Garden of the Gods with my first camera, the Kodak Signet 30, was an intense learning experience. Luckily, a few photos turned out reasonable well. In the Garden of the Gods, on a clear...
Nesting Robins | a 7 Image Story
Nesting Robins | a 7 Image Story The American Robin is one of the earliest bird species to lay eggs in the spring, Female robins choose the nest site; typically in the lower half of a tree. They also nest in gutters, eaves, light fixtures, etc. as well as a...
Pleasant Lake Kayaking | a 7 Image Story
Pleasant Lake Kayaking | a 7 Image Story Paddling along Pleasant Lake's shoreline generally turns up watercolor and wildlife. The Water Iris line the northwest shoreline. Naturally, the Swallowtail Butterfly visits them regularly. These magnificent large...
The Bald Eagle | a 7 Image Story
The Bald Eagle | a 7 Image Story The majestic Bald Eagle, national symbol of the United States of America, resides only on North America. Bald Eagles are just magnificent creatures. The B&W format forces attention to the features of the eagle and its...
Minolta XG-9 to Maui | a 7 Image Story
Minolta XG-9 to Maui | a 7 Image Story My first trip to Maui was also my first trip with my new Minolta XG-9 SLR camera. The XG-9 replaced my SRT-102 as my top camera. The SRT-102 was a great camera and a hard act to follow. The XG-9 was smaller and a bit easier...
Spring 2019 Hodgepodge | a 7 Image Story
Spring 2019 Hodgepodge | a 7 Image Story This year's spring was colder and wetter than normal. Trees budded later than usual. The flowers seemed to be a bit later in blooming. Migratory water fowl passed through a little later. These images were all captured on my...
Depth of Field | a 7 Image Story
Depth of Field | a 7 Image Story Depth of Field: the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects in acceptably sharp focus in an image. Seems like a simple enough concept! Applying this simple concept might be a bit more difficult than it seems. To help...
Common Snapping Turtle | a 7 Image Story
Common Snapping Turtle | a 7 Image Story The Common Snapping Turtle is a very large turtle. Its top shell, called a carapace, generally grows to 10 – 20 inches long while the turtle can weigh 15 – 55 pounds. Their colors are usually dull brown to black with a large...
Nikon 1 V3 for Insects | a 7 Image Story
Nikon 1 V3 for Insects| a 7 Image Story The Nikon 1 V3, and the V1 before it, captures a wide variety of image types quite well. With the right lens and a little patience, it will capture really nice insect images. The camera body and lenses are relatively small...
Spring Snow | a 7 Image Story
Spring Snow | a 7 Image Story Hopefully, this Spring Snow will be the last of the winter season. It's one of those wet, heavy; here today, gone tomorrow snows. Still, while it's here, it's fun. Jokingly, some folks say spring snows are warmer than winter snows. ...
American Pelicans 2019 | a 7 Image Story
American Pelicans 2019 | a 7 Image Story Every year in early spring, a small flock of American Pelicans stop to rest and fish in a nearby lake along my walkabout trail. They usually spend 10 days to 2 weeks on the lake. Spring is clearly here when they arrive. ...
Midwest Seascapes | a 7 Image Story
Midwest Seascapes | a 7 Image Story Seascapes may seem like a stretch. In the Midwest, we have no seas or oceans, just lakes; big lakes, small lakes, lakes of all shapes and sizes. Perhaps, we should call these images lake-scapes. Several images are long...
Rock Formations | a 7 Image Story
Rock Formations | a 7 Image Story A simple concept, a simple word like "rocks" easily grows into complex shapes and colors for images. We flat land photogs travel far and wide to capture the essence of rock formations. The seven presented here come from my western...
The Lone Tree | a 7 Image Story
The Lone Tree | a 7 Image Story Lone tree images convey sense of quiet solitude. They remind us how a solitary figure stands tall against all odds. The lone tree provides raw strength to the image as well as a sense of resilience and perseverance.
Solitude @ Wind Cave | a 7 Image Story
Each national park has a character of it’s own. “Solitude” describes Wind Cave NP above the ground, particularly in the off-season. At solitary Wind Cave, it’s all about the land and its wildlife; a nature photographer’s heaven.
Nikon 1 V3 for Birds | a 7 Image Story
Nikon 1 V3 for Birds | a 7 Image Story The Nikon 1 V3 makes bird photography possible for amateurs who do not specialize on birds. As an amateur, who captures mostly wildlife, landscapes, and aviation, investing in very expensive 400mm - 600mm telephoto lens just...
First Snow | a 7 Image Story
First Snow | a 7 Image Story This fall seems to be a bit colder than most and the first real snowfall a bit sooner than usual. It’s a wet snow so it sticks to trees and bushes. The temperature has hung around freezing. A little snow, like 8 inches, a little sun and...
Morning Dove Posing | a 7 Image Story
Morning Dove Posing | a 7 Image Story Morning Doves tend to stick around for winter. With the leaves off the trees, sometimes they make great images. They don’t seem to mind the cold and snow. It probably helps that they have plenty of seed to eat from my bird...
2018 MI Fall Color Tour | a 7 Image Story
2018 MI Fall Color Tour | a 7 Image Story Northern Michigan trees tend to show more reds than southern Midwest. This year the reds seemed to be somewhat muted; not as many and not as brilliant. Still, peak color is always beautiful. The highways northwest of...
Midwest Fall Color | a 7 Image Story
Midwest Fall Color | a 7 Image Story Northern Illinois fall color doesn’t contain as many reds as farther north in the U.P. Late afternoon light in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula adds to the soft flow of the river and a bit of fall color. As the afternoon drags, the...
Elk | a 7 Image Story
Elk | a 7 Image Story Today Elk live primarily in western North America in mountainous areas such as Wyoming’s National Elk Refuge near the Grand Tetons NP and Yellowstone National Park NP. Elk are related to deer but are much larger. Male elk are called bulls and...
The Great American Prairie | a 7 Image Story
The Great American Prairie | a 7 Image Story Thunderstorms rumble over the Great Plains frequently during the summer months. In fact, they are almost one of the trademarks of the Great American Prairie; ranging from the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest and from Canada...
Great Blue Heron | a 7 Image Story
Great Blue Heron | a 7 Image Story Why do I like Great Blue Herons? The Great Blue is a big beautiful bird. It’s common in many parts of the country so there are many photographic opportunities to capture images with multiple poses. And, my nightly walkabout...
Big Island & Kilauea B&W | a 7 Image Story
Big Island & Kilauea B&W | a 7 Image Story The Big Island of Hawaii is a land of sharp contrasts; naturally made for black & while images. Recent news headlines are filled with an erupting Kilauea volcano. These images show a more peaceful Hawaii with...
Simple Click Wildflowers | a 7 Image Story
Simple Click Wildflowers | a 7 Image Story Of course, a simple click can come anywhere, anytime. My spring walkabouts tend to turn up many simple clicks, particularly when spring wildflowers are in bloom. So, what is a simple click? The term gets used extensively...
Snowy Rain | a 7 Image Story
Snowy Rain | a 7 Image Story A little snow, a little rain, and early morning light help make dramatic images. Add a few rocks in a mountain stream and little luck with the weather, you might find the image in your dreams. The opportunity came my way on a fall...
Spring Walkabout | a 7 Image Story
Spring Walkabout | a 7 Image Story Hey, it’s spring. After a long winter, spring walkabouts bring a fresh perspective. Color slowly begins to reemerge. Sure, rain and snow showers make for muddier boots. Does April snow bring May flowers? Enough with the snow,...
Snow B&W | a 7 Image Story
Snow B&W | a 7 Image Story Black & white images seem to go together with snow, quite often. As winter gives way to spring, it's time to reflect one last time on winter snow. My black & white images tend to highlight contrasts. Snow provides contrast by...
American Bison | a 7 Image Story
American Bison | a 7 Image Story The American Bison, also call Bison Bison, is our National Mammal and symbolic of the Great Plains. The largest land animal in North America; at one time millions roamed the grasslands of North America from Alaska to Mexico in...
Sandhills on the Platte | a 7 Image Story
Sandhills on the Platte | a 7 Image Story Every year from mid February to the first week of April, most of the planet’s Sandhill Cranes converge along 75-mile stretch of the Platte River near Kearney, Nebraska. The gathering represents the closest thing to the...