Entering Bowling Green, Ohio, from the north on I-75, you'll pass a sign advertising the town as home of the National Tractor Pull. The name says it all: competitors from around the country come to this town of 29,000 to pull heavy trailers with, well, tractors... while others - over 10,000 - watch. The sound is deafening, the activity... weird. But, you should be required to see it at least once in your life:

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-Shoppers
-Food alley
-The main event

In and around a small city park in Huron, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie:

-Red barn
-Stairs in a church
-Seagulls
-A lighthouse 1, 2, 3

The following are photos taken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC on July 10:

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A friend and I recently made a trip to New York City to play tourist. Here are a few of the shots I came home with:

• Lower Manhattan Skyline
  
• Subway Cowboy
  
• The Chrysler Building
  
• The Chrysler Building's Spire
  
• Detail of the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park
  
• The arch in Washington Square Park
  
• Two buildings
  
• The Post Office
  
• Light between two buildings

My first new photos in a while:

Pre-digital: Brownie I, Brownie II.

Time: Clock(s) I, Clock(s) II, Clock(s) III, Clock(s) IV.

No excuses (worth mentioning, anyway), and not much new to show for my four-month abscence. My camera has been so under used it is threatening to return itself and keep the money. So, with nothing new to show, I have felt too guilty to come back.

Thankfully, we are blessed with a webmaster at photographica that won't let me get away so easily. So at Cory's much appreciated request, I humbly stick my foot back in the door. Soon, I hope to get back with the camera; in the meantime, I got a scanner:

The Minneapolis Armory
Trains watch the sunset, too
From the window of an apartment I miss dearly
This fall I got paid to shoot football games. Considering my quasi-dramatic, no action photo skills, I don't think they will ask me back.
A parking ramp
Just down the street
Tresspassing in a dead mill

First off, apologies for my latest absence; my new job and the unexpected high traffic at my site have kept me uber-busy. I wanted to share a few shots I have taken in the past month:

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I hope everyone's summer is going well.

...Nothing particularly exciting happened, but it was nice out:

Long Shadows
The Capitol Theater 1 & 2
The Methodist Church
Another church 1 & 2
A tree in a parking lot
A long wall
1963
The Post Office

An afternoon at the Brown County Horse Races outside Aberdeen, South Dakota:

The Horse Races

I drove 20 miles to Columbia today. Formerly the county seat, the town remained small because it refused to allow railroads to come through town 100 years ago. But, they have a computer store, a bank (detail) and a school. The school, however, has fallen into disrepair. The building is abandoned and for sale, and the door was unlocked.

On a related note, I finally had time to update my site tonight, and there are more shots from today along with more moon shots from last week in the Day Galleries section (05-15+16-03 and 05-22-03). Stop by if you have time!

What an impressive sight; sometimes nature does cool things just for the hell of it. Shots of the eclipse tonight, taken from the dog park down the street:

Going, going, going & almost gone.

Here is my latest entry for The 800x600 Project. The lighting is real; the blue ice pictures were lit by a flashlight, the others were under normal light.

Thanks to all those who have contributed to the project so far; the response to date has been far greater - both in terms of numbers and quality - than I could have possibly imagined. Keep them coming!

A couple posts lately deal with colaborative photography projects, and it just so happens I've come up with a new project I'd like you all to know about. A few months ago I posted this, an 800x600 collage of pictures of details from my apartment. Today I put together a new one, this time the library at my college. This post comes with an invitation, details inside--

One of the greatest differences I've noticed between photographers, not only here but everywhere, is the willingness/unwillingness to step in front of the camera. Some posters here, like boy, Jayseaka and nina, have shared a number of self portraits, and the results are usually quite good, while others, like myself, tend to avoid such posts.

Click 'Full Story' for more- (sorry to put this post in the "Front Page Pictures" section, but I think it will be seen much more that way)

I went back to Storybook Land this weekend:

Train station
The gingerbread man
Pooh
Piggy
Humpty

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Bright Blue Sun