Halloween 2023 | a 7 Image Story
Halloween 2023 | a 7 Image Story Some folks go above and beyond in their Halloween celebration. These images come from some of the best nearby displays.
Pleasant Lake Kayaking 2023 | a 7 Image Story
Pleasant Lake Kayaking 2023 | a 7 Image Story Pleasant Lake can be fairly quiet of boat traffic. With a calm wind and no boat traffic, the lake can get glassy smooth. Into the Wilderness The kayak provides a unique platform to enter the wilderness without...
Cubs Game 2023 | Cubs Win!
Cubs Game 2023 | Cubs Win! Cubs win; time to celebrate! Each image from Cubs Game 2023 | a 7 Image Story will be posted individually this week with a bit more narrative under category Cubs Game 2023 Note: I post an image most days at hankconrad.com.
Cubs Game 2023 | Before the Strike Out
Cubs Game 2023 | Before the Strike Out He's going to swing for the fences! Each image from Cubs Game 2023 | a 7 Image Story will be posted individually this week with a bit more narrative under category Cubs Game 2023 Note: I post an image most days at...
Cubs Game 2023 | And the Pitch
Cubs Game 2023 | And the Pitch Look at the intent in his face; he is focused! Each image from Cubs Game 2023 | a 7 Image Story will be posted individually this week with a bit more narrative under category Cubs Game 2023 Note: I post an image most days at...
Cubs Game 2023 | Ready on 1st Base
Cubs Game 2023 | Ready on 1st Base First baseman was really ready! Let's hope a ball comes his way soon. Each image from Cubs Game 2023 | a 7 Image Story will be posted individually this week with a bit more narrative under category Cubs Game 2023 Note: I post an...
Cubs Game 2023 | Ready in Right Field
Cubs Game 2023 | Ready in Right Field He's intent; let's hope a fly ball comes his way! Each image from Cubs Game 2023 | a 7 Image Story will be posted individually this week with a bit more narrative under category Cubs Game 2023 Note: I post an image most days at...
Cubs Game 2023 | Swing & a Miss
Cubs Game 2023 | Swing & a Miss Yup, a giant swing and a miss with no time remaining on the clock! Each image from Cubs Game 2023 | a 7 Image Story will be posted individually this week with a bit more narrative under category Cubs Game 2023 Note: I post an...
Cubs Game 2023 | Batter Up
Cubs Game 2023 | Batter Up Christopher Morel takes the plate with 15 seconds on the clock. Each image from Cubs Game 2023 | a 7 Image Story will be posted individually this week with a bit more narrative under category Cubs Game 2023 Note: I post an image most days...
Cubs Game 2023 | a 7 Image Story
Cubs Game 2023 | a 7 Image Story A Cubs game on a beautiful afternoon makes for nice day especially when the Cubs win. Batter Up Christopher Morel takes the plate with 15 seconds on the clock. Swing & a Miss Yup, a giant swing and a miss with no...
Peck Butterfly House II | a 7 Image Story
Peck Butterfly House II | a 7 Image Story The Peck Butterfly House always seems to delight with new butterflies every few weeks. Black Swallowtail Busy Although butterflies are less efficient than bees at moving pollen between plants, this Swallowtail appears to be...
Prairie Burn Goes Green | a 7 Image Story
Prairie Burn Goes Green | a 7 Image Story This set of images shows the story of a field from a planned burn to tall green vegetation in less than four months. Burned Trail Walk This field on our daily walk was burned on March 30th. Only the trees and the trail...
2020 Good Riddance | a 7 Image Story
2020 Good Riddance | a 7 Image Story Finally, 2020 remains sadly in our rear view mirror. It was a very bad year. Bad really does not give justice to 2020. Perhaps, the word should be terrible or awful; something way worse than bad. Certainly, it was one of the...
A Bit of Winter | a 7 Image Story
A Bit of Winter | a 7 Image Story Winter finally arrived late December. A little snow and ice adds so much texture and background to winter images. Even macro images embrace the structures in ice. Birds and critters look so brilliant against the snow and ice. Pug...
Around the House Macro | a 7 Image Story
Around the House Macro | a 7 Image Story Why macro photography around the house? After a challenging year staying at home, it seems all together fitting and proper to capture a few images around home. Using macro might make some of the images a bit more exciting. ...
B&W Shapes | a 7 Image Story
B&W Shapes | a 7 Image Story In black and white photographs, shapes and contrasts make all the difference. It's all about the lines, the curves, and the contours along with how they contrast and/or blend. A strong photograph without color will generally also...
Gray Fox or Black Squirrel | a 7 Image Story
Gray Fox or Black Squirrel | a 7 Image Story Around the Midwest, most squirrels are gray squirrels. Still, large numbers of fox squirrels also make the Midwest their home. Then, of course, pockets of blacks squirrels also share the habitat. So, are they really...
Hiking Big Sky’s Beehive Basin | a 7 Image Story
Hiking Big Sky's Beehive Basin | a 7 Image Story Hiking the Beehive Basin trail in October makes for a beautiful day. It's not too hot; not too cold. A little snow adds to the natural beauty of the land. No wonder Beehive Basin Trail has been ranked in the top...
Blue Jays | a 7 Image Story
Blue Jays | a 7 Image Story The Blue Jay is a common songbird in northern Illinois. Native to North America, at least some Blue Jays stay around all winter. They are beautiful against the snow. They seem to be a hardly bird; living up to 26 years old. Blue Jays...
Old Mission Peninsula Fall Color | a 7 Image Story
Old Mission Peninsula Fall Color | a 7 Image Story The Old Mission Peninsula leaves turned into their fall color later than the surrounding inland areas. The lake water surrounding the peninsula on three sides provides an more consistent climate for the peninsula. ...
Hunt for Red October Leaves | a 7 Image Story
Hunt for Red October Leaves | a 7 Image Story The hunt for red October leaves is much harder than it would seem in northern Illinois. Northern Illinois has many trees with yellow and/or orange leaves, but not many with deep red leaves. For the deep reds, one must...
Illinois Harvest | a 7 Image Story
Illinois Harvest | a 7 Image Story Harvest time in northern Illinois is not your grandfather's harvest experience. Farming in northern Illinois, like most other parts of the country, has become largely a corporate experience. The number of family farms continues to...
Fall Flower Walkabout | a 7 Image Story
Fall Flower Walkabout | a 7 Image Story Summer flowers will be gone soon as fall weather gets colder and brings the season's first snow. It's their last few weeks of beauty until next spring. A nice macro lens or extension tube captures their detail. It may be...
Yellowstone NP Wild | a 7 Image Story
Yellowstone NP Wild | a 7 Image Story Wild describes the essence of Yellowstone. It's a vast wild place providing habitat where Bison, Wolf, Elk, Coyote, Pronghorn, and Bighorn Sheep as well as Bald Eagle and Raven call home. Life's survival in wild Yellowstone is...
Remembering Oshkosh | a 7 Image Story
Remembering Oshkosh | a 7 Image Story Oshkosh Air Adventure 2020 did not happen, of course, due to the pandemic. It's hard to grasp remembering Oshkosh in only the past tense. Although these images have been posted in the past, this week's posts remember some of...
Peck Butterfly House | a 7 Image Story
Peck Butterfly House | a 7 Image Story The Peck Butterfly House contains hundreds of butterflies that fly, feed, and land in the enclosure. It's part of the 385 acre Peck Farm Park which offers a visitors an opportunity to slow down and enjoy nature including a...
Labor Day Potpourri | a 7 Image Story
Labor Day Potpourri | a 7 Image Story The Labor Day this year saw another unusual holiday. These images were captured just because they happened to be along my travel path during the holidays. My travel paths were again close to home. Social distancing gets much...
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly | a 7 Image Story
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly | a 7 Image Story This female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly was feeding on several flowers along my walkabout. It seemed to linger around the flowers as I clicked away. It was a chance for me to capture images of this...
Macro Flowers Plus | a 7 Image Story
Macro Flowers Plus | a 7 Image Story Macro photography is all about getting closer to the subject and making that subject bigger. It allows for very close focusing and magnification. Macro photography is still relatively new to me. My Nikon gear for these images...
The Moments During the Clicks | a 7 Image Story
The Moments During the Clicks | a 7 Image Story Many great aviation images come from fast action. Obviously air to air or ground to air images require panning skills no matter what type of aircraft. Propeller planes require really good panning skills to keep the...
The Moment After the Click | a 7 Image Story
The Moment After the Click | a 7 Image Story When capturing wildlife images even with a pleasant background in nice light, it's sometimes hard to know which images will be the best. The camera may be set for perfect exposure, but perfect focus may be much harder. ...
The Moment Before the Click | a 7 Image Story
The Moment Before the Click | a 7 Image Story When photographing landscapes in just the right place at just the right time with just the right light, there comes a moment when you know the scene in front of your lens becomes just the right image. It's that moment...
Bill’s Backyard Pond | a 7 Image Story
Bill's Backyard Pond | a 7 Image Story When visiting with Bill over coffee, I notice what a beautiful backyard he had. I seldom post about man made nature, but this yard just cried out for a post. It's so nice, he has had several weddings in his backyard. The...
A Pug’s Value : Nick’s Legacy | a 7 Image Story
A Pug's Value : Nick's Legacy | a 7 Image Story Nick the Pug; most human! Let’s celebrate Nick’s life, a pug who was truly our best friend. And, a pug who brought much joy not only to me, but to our entire family and everyone else that touched his life. He loved...
Paddling Pleasant Lake | a 7 Image Story
Paddling Pleasant Lake | a 7 Image Story Paddling along Pleasant Lake's shoreline will generally yield at least a few decent images. On this day, the boat traffic was a bit heavier than usual, which made numerous waves. Capturing macro images of the water lilies...
Spring 2020 Hodgepodge | a 7 Image Story
Spring 2020 Hodgepodge | a 7 Image Story This year’s spring was wetter than normal. The flowers as well as the weeds seemed to grow sooner, faster, and higher. These images were all captured on my daily walkabouts. The big change this spring is my use of extension...
Aviation | a 7 Image Story
Aviation | a 7 Image Story Picking seven aviation images from the thousands in my database was difficult. These images were primarily chosen because they represent some of my best compositions. Like these images, many of my favorite aviation images come from...
Spring Green | a 7 Image Story
Spring Green | a 7 Image Story This year's spring has brought rain; an abundance of rain. My walkabouts are filled with lush green. Green is only an OK color for me; not my favorite by a long shot. For me, it's an outside background color; not a main subject...
More WWII Nose Art | a 7 Image Story
More WWII Nose Art | a 7 Image Story During WWII, nose art could be found on many fighters, bombers, and sometimes on other planes like transport and observation planes. The most popular were the bombers since they had more space around the nose to paint. This...
Morning Dove Portraits | a 7 Image Story
Morning Dove Portraits | a 7 Image Story This Morning Dove hung around the deck for a long time. It seemed to pose in several positions like a model in a photo shoot. Even the red and green background from the crab apple tree made the images appear like they were...
Natural Macro Patterns | a 7 Image Story
Natural Macro Patterns | a 7 Image Story Macro photography is all about getting closer to the subject and making that subject bigger. These images depict patterns that are not so obvious upon casual observation. To see the pattern, you must get close, real close. ...
Macro Flowers | a 7 Image Story
Macro Flowers | a 7 Image Story Macro photography allows very close focusing and magnification. Macro photography is new, brand new to me. To initially achieve a few macro images, I used extension tubes to magnify my subjects. My Nikon gear was fairly simple; a...
Nikon D200 Potpourri | a 7 Image Story
Nikon D200 Potpourri | a 7 Image Story The D200 was my first digital SLR camera. As you can see, it's a fine camera capable of rendering nice photographs. Of course, my learning course was steep at first, but eventually I began to capture some decent images. ...
Spring Walkabout Birds | a 7 Image Story
Spring Walkabout Birds | a 7 Image Story Spring walkabout this year have been a bit different. More people are walking due to the virus driven stay-at-home orders. Folks are not only walking neighborhood streets but also the wooded and lakeside trails I tend to...
Floatplanes & Amphibians | a 7 Image Story
Floatplanes & Amphibians | a 7 Image Story Two main types of seaplanes are floatplnes and flying boats. Floatplanes are aircraft fitted with floats instead of wheels. Flying boats are aircraft where the fuselage is partially submerged in water providing most...
Oshkosh Seaplane Base | a 7 Image Story
Oshkosh Seaplane Base | a 7 Image Story The Seaplane Base at the Oshkosh AirAdventure provides seaplanes calm waters to dock. It's nestled in a picturesque cove of Lake Winnebago. Pilots and passenger can stay the day or pitch a tent and spend the night in quiet...
The Sunday Drive | a 7 Image Story
The Sunday Drive | a 7 Image Story When I was a young boy growing up on a Midwest farm, my parents often took a Sunday drive. It became a bit of a tradition. Now, we did not go every Sunday, but fairly often. Sometimes, the purpose was to "look at the crops." ...
Last Snow Birds | a 7 Image Story
Last Snow Birds | a 7 Image Story The snow storm this week will likely be the last of the season. Spring is only a few days away. The snow on the trees melted by the afternoon. These images are of common, local birds. Still, capturing the falling snow in the...
Cooper’s Hawk | a 7 Image Story
Cooper's Hawk | a 7 Image Story The Cooper's Hawk is a medium-sized hawk with rounded wings and a long tail. Several Red-tailed Hawks and a few Cooper's Hawks call this area home. To me, the immature Cooper's Hawk looks like a Red-tailed Hawk from a distance. ...
Everglades | a 7 Image Story
Everglades | a 7 Image Story Everglades NP is impressive not by its majestic scenery but by it's water. Its landscape is relatively flat. Moreover, the everglades is all about the water and swampy land. What's under the water. What's on the water and land. The...
More B-25 WWII Nose Art | a 7 Image Story
More B-25 WWII Nose Art | a 7 Image Story This seven image story post is a continuation of B-25 WWII Nose Art | a 7 Image Story and continues to focus on the B-25 Mitchell bomber. The most popular WWII planes for nose art were the bombers since they had more space...
Wildlife | a 7 Image Story
Wildlife | a 7 Image Story Picking seven wildlife images from the thousands in my database was difficult. These images were primarily chosen because they represent some of my best compositions. Like these images, many of my favorite wildlife images come from the...
Volmer VJ-22 Sportsman | a 7 Image Story
Volmer VJ-22 Sportsman | a 7 Image Story My original post about the Volmer VJ-22 Sportsman was published over 6 years ago and has become one of the most popular posts on my blog. This post includes more images of the VJ-22 along with updated narrative. So, what is...
Backyard Winter Birds | a 7 Image Story
Backyard Winter Birds | a 7 Image Story Each winter the snow provides contrast and background for backyard birds. Even though the same bird species tend to feed at the backyard bird feeder each winter, it's still a challenge to get nice images. The Nikon 1 V3 with...
The Badlands | a 7 Image Story
The Badlands | a 7 Image Story The Badlands are truly inspiring. There’s something rather spiritual about Badlands NP. Perhaps, it’s the stark contrasts, the native American influence, or the large expanse of rock formations. Taking time to reflect on the...
Koalas | a 7 Image Story
Koalas | a 7 Image Story Koalas are just so cute. You have to love them. Now, they need our help. They are native to eastern Australia, where the eucalyptus trees are plentiful. But now, the fires are killing the koalas and destroying the eucalyptus trees....
Backyard Coyote | a 7 Image Story
Backyard Coyote | a 7 Image Story Wow! What a nice life; a backyard coyote. Well, it's not really in the backyard; more like the back, backyard better known as wetlands and forest. The coyote is a wild animal whether roaming in the wetlands or walking the...
B-25 WWII Nose Art | a 7 Image Story
B-25 WWII Nose Art | a 7 Image Story The most popular WWII planes for nose art were the bombers since they had more space around the nose to paint. This post focuses at the B-25 Mitchell. More planes with nose art are posted in my portfolios. For additional B-25...
Reflections on 2019 | a 7 Image Story
Reflections on 2019 | a 7 Image Story Two Thousand Nineteen was again a year like all years, filled with those events which alter and illuminate our time. (Thank you, Walter.) For me, 2019 was again, a year filled with very little travel. Hopefully, next year will...
Dogs at Christmas | a 7 Image Story
Dogs at Christmas | a 7 Image Story ‘Twas the Night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a Pug; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that Santa Pug soon would be there; The Pugs were nestled all snug...
Landscapes | a 7 Image Story
Landscapes | a 7 Image Story Trying to pick just 7 images from my landscape image database proved to take longer than intended. These images are certainly representative of the types of landscapes that tend to get in front of my camera. Many folks like to capture...
WWII Nose Art | a 7 Image Story
WWII Nose Art | a 7 Image Story During WWII, nose art could be found on many fighters, bombers, and sometimes on other planes like transport and observation planes. The most popular were the bombers since they had more space around the nose to paint. This post only...
Fighter Jets | a 7 Image Story
Fighter Jets | a 7 Image Story Selecting only 7 images to represent fighter jets is a tall order. My criteria for the 7 images was image quality first, then type of aircraft. See my aviation portfolio for additional aircraft images. Why are the Blue Angels image...
Hawk Poses | a 7 Image Story
Hawk Poses | a 7 Image Story It's all about a single hawk, a Red-tailed Hawk, that posed for me at several locations along my walkabout today through the forest. While walking along the trail, I spotted the hawk in a tree about twenty yards off the trail. It must...
Fine Art | a 7 Image Story
Fine Art | a 7 Image Story My idea of fine art images consists mostly of black & white compositions with definite contrasts and contours. These images were converted to black & white from color since it makes better B&W images than shooting directly in...
People Portraits | a 7 Image Story
People Portraits | a 7 Image Story Although my photography does not capture people portraits often, occasionally a nice people image gets in front of my camera. These people images represent some of my better portraits. Notice they are mostly captured with natural...
Icy Leaves | a 7 Image Image
Icy Leaves | a 7 Image Image Ice and leaves don't normally go together. An early fall snowstorm provided four inches of wet icy snow in late October. The leaves were at peak color or perhaps just after peak color when the snow fell overnight. By the next day,...
Halloween Scare | a 7 Image Story
Halloween Scare | a 7 Image Story In a couple of days, it’s Halloween. Are you ready with a new costume? Don’t forget to take the camera along as you go trick or treating. Halloween can be a demanding subject for almost any photographer. Dim light and moving...
Autumn Leaves | a 7 Image Story
Autumn Leaves | a 7 Image Story When we think of fall color, we often think of beautiful vistas of multi-colored trees. The color, of course, comes from the tree's leaves. The leaves themselves can offer a beautiful mosaic when viewed close up. These images were...
Pronghorn | a 7 Image Story
Pronghorn | a 7 Image Story Pronghorn are an original Native American animals. They are found only in North America. Although often called an antelope, they are not antelope. They belong to a family of their own; one of a kind. Pronghorn are symbolic of the...
Bighorn Sheep | a 7 Image Story
Bighorn Sheep | a 7 Image Story Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep are found in western Canada and western United States. These images were captured at Badlands NP and Yellowstone NP. Bighorn Sheep are the largest wild sheep in North America. A large ram can weigh over...
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...
Spring Colt | a 7 Image Story
Spring Colt | a 7 Image Story So, strictly speaking, what is a colt? A colt is a male horse younger than four years old. When a colt gets older than four, he is considered an adult and called a stallion if intact, gelding if castrated, or just a horse. Horses...
Nevada City | a 7 Image Story
Nevada City | a 7 Image Story Nevada City, settled June 6, 1863, is today a restored ghost town in Madison County, Montana. The Bovey family restored it between 1945 and 1978. It's also a tourist attraction with fourteen original old buildings along with 94...
Back to Blakesburg AAA Fly-in | a 7 Image Story
Back to Blakesburg AAA Fly-in | a 7 Image Story The Antique Airplane Association Fly-in is held annually at Antique Airfield (IA27) over the Labor Day weekend. Vintage airplane lovers and owners come together to enjoy beautiful old airplanes including some rare...
Spinning Wheels | a 7 Image Story
Spinning Wheels | a 7 Image Story Photographing racing cars in a race! How hard can it be? Set the shutter speed real high on a sunny race day and bang away. But wait, the wheels are frozen in time and the background is in focus. Looks like the car is standing...
Bike Illinois | a 7 Image Story
Bike Illinois | a 7 Image Story Illinois has many picturesque biking trails; long and short. These cyclists are riding a charity event in the relatively flat land of northern Illinois. Biking can be a family affair for younger and older cyclists alike. And while...
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...
Flying to Alaska | a 7 Image Story
Flying to Alaska | a 7 Image Story Why fly to Alaska from the lower 48. Why not? After 10 years service, my company offered a sabbatical; an extra 8 weeks vacation taken at one time. Time to recharge the batteries. What better way to recharge than to fly;...
Minolta SRT-102 to Yosemite NP | a 7 Image Story
Minolta SRT-102 to Yosemite NP | a 7 Image Story My first trip to Yosemite NP was also my first trip with my new Minolta SRT-102 SLR camera. Although my previous cameras were 35mm film cameras, they were all rangefinders or viewfinders. Obviously, the camera was...
North American B-25 Mitchell | a 7 Image Story
North American B-25 Mitchell | a 7 Image Story The North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber, used by most Allied countries, saw action in every combat theater during World War II. The B-25 Mitchell replaced several squadrons of B-26 Marauders in the 22nd Bomb...
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...
Gallatin River Ranch | a 7 Image Story
Gallatin River Ranch | a 7 Image Story The Gallatin River Ranch is a 5,900 acre ranch converted into a residential ranch community with a ranch style "old west" feel. Located in the Horseshoe Hills of southern Montana, northwest of Bozeman, MT, it has stunning views...
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. ...
Pug Puppy | a 7 Image Story
Pug Puppy | a 7 Image Story Pug puppies are love; little bundles of love on four legs. Pug puppies are happy, affectionate, charming, playful, and mischievous. Although they are incredibly cute, they're also quite mischievous with a very high energy level until...
Nikon 1 V3 for Travelers | a 7 Image Story
Nikon 1 V3 for Travelers | a 7 Image Story The Nikon 1 V3, and the V1 before it, travel very well. The camera body and lenses are relatively small and light. They fit easily into half of a briefcase allowing plenty of room for a computer and paper work. See my...
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. ...
22nd BG Red Raiders 77 Years Ago | a 7 Image Story
22nd BG Red Raiders 77 Years Ago | a 7 Image Story Seventy seven years ago this month, the 22nd Bomb Group was in the midst of flying 5 squadrons of B-26 Marauder bombers from Hickam Field on Oahu, Hawaii to Brisbane Australia; a journey of nearly 5000 miles. The...
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...
Snow Monkeys | a 7 Image Story
Snow Monkeys | a 7 Image Story It’s a rainy day at the NYC Central Park Zoo. It's January and fairly cold; just above freezing. These Snow Monkeys don't seem to care. Their hair must keep them warm and dry. One of the Snow Monkeys finally decided to take shelter...
Snow Leopard | a 7 Image Story
Snow Leopard | a 7 Image Story Of course, these Snow Leopard images were captured in January a few years ago in a zoo, specifically, the Central Park Zoo in NYC. Some folks are really into the big cats. Moving toward you, they present a very imposing figure. My...
Nikon 1 V3 for Walkabout Wildlife | a 7 Image Story
Nikon 1 V3 for Walkabout Wildlife | a 7 Image Story What the V3 does well, it does very well. Now, the V3 is my preferred carry camera for capturing daily walkabout images including local wildlife. It shoots much like a DSLR in continuous mode. Although a bit...
Winter Walkabout | a 7 Image Story
Winter Walkabout | a 7 Image Story Although winter walkabouts generally turn up fewer critters, natural beauty abounds. Stark contrasts help snow images stand out. As it began to snow harder, I decided to follow the stream to see how water and snow images might...
Yellowstone Sepia Snow | a 7 Image Story
Yellowstone Sepia Snow | a 7 Image Story At this time of year I like to look forward to visiting Yellowstone in the winter, even if I am not planning to go. There’s nothing like Yellowstone in the winter. It’s my favorite time to visit. Yellowstone always provides...