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I've been enjoying summer!
Here's some shots:
2 wild ones Beach Grasses Beach With St. Joseph MI Lighthouse Unusual Orange Body Beach Umbrellas (it was raining) White One Fawn Fawn2 Hosta Hosta2 Poppies! Turtle Black & White
Sorry for so many...
Thanks for looking

From the coast trip last week..

The Coquille River Light was the last built on the Oregon coast, completed in 1896. The short 40 ft. tower and small Fourth Order lens served to guide ships across the treacherous bar at the entrance to the river. In those days, the river port of Bandon was a center for shipping the lumber of Oregon's rich forests.

From South side of the river

North side of river

Another from the north side.

Between the last two which do you like the framing on better?

This set is from the coast trip. One evening as I was walking back up to the parking area from the beach I meet a man walking down to go fishing. The idea hit me for late evening shots of someone fishing down there. The following evening when I went down he and his family were already down there fishing. I asked permission to take some shots of him, his dad and his daughter fishing. He said no problem. They were from Idaho and I gave him one of my cards and told him if he would email me when he got home I'd send him a CD with copies of the photos.

These are four of the shots.
Man Fishing On Beach
Man and Girl Fishing
Man and Girl Fishing (different lighting)
To Men and Girl Fishing.

I know.. kind of different for me. I don't take many people shots.

Greetings Earthlings,

I have returned from five days on the Oregon Coast. I will be making you suffer through a wide range of subjects once I get all of the images sorted and thinned. I shot around 450 images but you won't have to see all of them. Some of the goodies include beaches, driftwood, a working fishing port, sea gulls, endangered Brown Pelicans, lighthouses, people fishing and elk. Oh, I almost forgot.. I also found Surfer Guy's summer beach house in Oregon!

The sunset gods took the week off. There won't be any sunset shots. Such is life at the coast. On the other hand the fog gods were working overtime. While I am sorting and thinning you can see what I woke up to Wed. morning. The fog was the thickest it had been all week. As the sun started to break the view of the Cape Blanco Lighthouse was worth getting out of bed and taking the hike up the hill to shoot.

More as I get them sorted and thinned.

South Breakwater Outer Light House #1
South Breakwater Outer Light House #2
South Breakwater Outer Light House #3

The North Breakwater Light House Duluth Harbor, MN.

GOOSEBERRY STATE PARK
The middle and lower falls
The middle and half the lower falls
The upper Falls

SPLIT ROCK STATE PARK
Split Rock Light house #1 One of my favorites
Split Rock Light house #2
Split Rock Light House #3

Oh how romantic.
From on top of Split Rock lighthouse.
The middle falls at Gooseberry State park.
Nature Rules!

Saturday Afternoon
#1
#2 One of my favorites

Monday Afternoon
#3

while on vacation.......

Duluth Harbor Light House
Split Rock Light House

I have been relaxing and taking pictures.  

Having lived in Wisconsin my whole life, I've been afforded many opportunites to view nature at its very best.  Door County - the penisula that juts out between Green Bay and Lake Michigan - is known for it's incredible scenery.  Peninsual State Park (in Fish Creek) is home to the Eagle Bluff Lighthouse, which overlooks Green Bay, as well as this lookout, which was way too high for me to climb!  In addition to the scenery of the park, I was fortunate enough to capture some great sunset pictures, like this one through the trees, this fantastic yellow sky, and this awesome shot of   Sturgeon Bay.  I have several more pictures from my trips to Door County, which I will share later on.  I hope you enjoyed these as much as I have...Thanks for looking!  

I've lived in Michigan for 23 years now, and inevitably as the weather warms I get the itch to get outside.  After long months of huddling inside during the Winter, I get the urge to get up and catch a Sunrise when the temperature goes up. When it gets even warmer, I'll journey to the Upper Peninsula by way of the Mighty Mackinac Bridge.  Perched on Lake Superior, you can observe birds and big ships at  Whitefish Point Bird Observatory. Returning home, I might chose to stop and hike the rolling dunes along Lake Michigan at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
At the end of day you can always catch a  Sunset too.  There are so many things to see and do in my state.  I can't wait to get out and shoot again.

Hello again.  Due to winter and other circumstances, this theme just wasn't meant to be for me.  The artistic brain would not kick in for some reason.  I thought I would get in under the wire with this little reflection.  Seagull and I were out one day, when we thought it was going to be a wonderful spring shoot.  Well, we darn near froze our shutters off in the North wind.  However, we did find evidence of spring, as shown in this small river that has opened up some.  This little lighthouse is in the middle of the Blanche River in a park called Firemen's park, in a town near here.  That is it for my theme contribution.  Aw well, there is always the next one.

House

This weekend I took a short road trip along the coast of MA, NH and Maine.  Although I was TRYING to get a good reflection shot, without knowing it was the new theme, this was my failed attempt.  But, I kinda liked it anyway.

And, of course, a trip to Maine would not be right without taking a picture of the already overphotographed  Nubble light house.  

Here are a couple more. lonely boat      more boats

Just one of the many great shots I took from the balcony of our cruise ship...  what a wonderful time.  This lighthouse was off the port area of Nassau.  It's located on the end of the little barried island and as we pulled away the photo opportunities were limitless.  I have about 10 shots, but this is one of our favorite.  Sit back, relax, and imageine the sound of the water crashing on the rocks...  take a mini vacation!

Between the storms we took a drive to Sea Ranch, above Bodega Bay, CA.  You can see how beautiful the coast is, but the lighthouse really got our heart pumping.  I don't remember how many stairs to the top, but it was a great view.  Too bad the picturesque lighthouses of old are not used anymore.