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30JAN2012

I have been a little under the weather lately, this is a shot I got from the Indianola balloon festival in Indianola Iowa, it was one of the first images I shot with my first digital camera. I had purchased a five hundred roll pack of film a year prior to this shot and had just run out of film. Paul jr. found the camera in St louis and went and got it for us and off to the races we went.....The camera doesn't fell good in my hand yet but heck I shot almost five thousand frames with that old film camera......hope I get more like this, hope you enjoy it!

I don't have photoshop....background is real, looking toward the North, real hazy out, sun is in and out of the clouds right at sunset, thanks for asking!

I was not in a balloon, they are the last ones up and out...real distinctive crafts, almost like the ones used to go around the world, haven't seen many of this type before this event.

You don't see many with animals on the sides either...

#1 picture 30JAN2012

The road less traveled is the best one. Shortly it turns to gravel and puts you next to the rivers edge where the foliage lights up the viewfinder. Wisconsin, the road to Strong Falls.

Thanks for making yesterday's photo go to the front page and all the awesome comments!!!! Paul Sr.

24OCT2012

Fall Jay

Have a great day!

13FEB2013

One Million Plus

Went down to Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge yesterday......lots to see!

These are Canadian Geese, there were over six hundred trumpeter swans too....

Just before the mass lift-off there seems to be a lot of discussion in the pond about just that......then from almost total silence they start and it sounds like a freight train coming toward you, the sky goes dim and all you hear is the birds wings flapping, totally astonishing.

Its forty degrees out and the wind is out of the south at ten to twenty MPH.

So we got two goose bombs to the windshield that was the extent of the crap.......literally, i too though it would be everywhere. Also there were no impact deaths from inflight collisions...on our part of the lake, the carnage is laying all over the place though, some caused impact craters two feet in diameter, surely would have killed a human on impact.....in all my years flying thats the scariest thing to go through, a bird strike.

Have a great day!

26NOV2012

Twisted Sunset

Holiday over and the relatives gone

I'm tired of raking I hate the lawn.

Gettin the outside ready for snow

I see a nice sunset coming got my gear ready to go.

Busted a move to downtown in the girlfriends SUV

This was the bomb.....I hope you agree!

Downtown Omaha Nebraska....Have a great week!

12APR2012

Looking for a Meal.....

Our sparrow muncher stopped by at sunset last night for a little snack.He's four feet from the bird food but with his curved beak he can't pick it up so he waits for a small rat or bird to come by to feed.

Have a great day.....thanks for taking the time to look at my image!

06MAY2013

The Downtowner

A small out of the way dinner in Omaha Nebraska.....yes Nebraska.

Hollywood Candy...selling Antiques and Mercantile.... In the Old Market.

Looks like a place we ate at when we were younger in New York State, down the hill from the Becker Farm. Seems we ate there only when we didn't go to Aunt Eva's.

Quite a feat to beat the youngster on a Monday....it went to 97.6 at 500px as well today. Hand held at a quarter of a second....tripods cost you 50 dollars to set up, oh but the possibilities!

Thanks for coming by to have a look, have a great day!

28MAY2013

The Palouse

At one of the non rainy times on the trip....few and far between.

Thanks for looking at my work and leaving a comment.

06FEB2012

Upon ended snow....

04JAN2012

Glade Creek Rapids at daybreak.......

It was shortly after I took this shot I fell on the rock out in the middle of the creek downstream of the mill.......my 16-35mm lens snapped off the camera body on impact and rolled into the creek...... &^%+?*%#!!!!!....$$$$$!!!!!!

01SEP2012

West Omaha Sunset

Hand held single shot no HDR.....the sky was on fire.

We came over to get a shot of the Husker flags that are right behind me but they were just putting them up....they also put a new statue up right behind me and made a mess, the baricades are up and construction debris was all over.

Three day weekend.....have a great one!

Critique welcome.....

08FEB2012

First light at Glade Creek Mill......

Some say this is the most photographed gristmill in America I would have to agree for the last thirty or so years. Marbry Mill has been around for a lot longer and has been documented in photos for a great while longer than Glade Creek. Glade Creek is just a stunning place to visit, great people at the Babcock State Park make this destination fun and interesting the park is beautifully kept and offers trails, bike paths, camping, fishing, kayaking any sort of outdoor recreation.

The New River George area is a top tier recreation area that offers beautiful surroundings around every corner. A favorite destination for me I have visited many times in all seasons and yet it still draws me back. This is the last shot I took before my fall that broke the lens off my camera body. I am a Gristmill enthusiast and have drug my children to many many mills, often at their displeasure, I belong to the great organization called SPOOM the Society for the Preservation Of Old Mills, they can be found at www.spoom.org. To date I have circumnavigated America to photograph over three hundred of these gristmill sites. Most of the Gristmills today are in serious decay or in ruins, hard to believe, our American heritage goes back to the many gristmills that started most of our communities today. Gristmills were the Mall of America in its heyday they were the meeting places Americans traded goods or had their toils changed to useful and tradable commodities, for products, for consumption. These Gristmills were the engines that made America prosper and grow, if you are lucky enough to have one close by visit your heritage, help renovate these treasures before its to late.

I hope someday to write a book about these wonderful American treasures that sit in your backyard, there is no image that depicts the American heritage more to me than a great image of a waterwheel on the side of a building, they normally rest near beautiful rivers and streams forgotten by their passerby's only to become dilapidated and bulldozed for that bright shinny seven eleven.....sad. Help save a reminder of Americana visit the SPOOM website, tell them I sent ya.....hope you enjoy this image of your past, Americans!

For all the great folks outside America this Gristmill site rests in Babcock State Park a little north and east of Beckley West Virginia, it sits in Appalachia an area rich in American history, the New River is said to be our continents oldest river.

Yes most of these mills are east of the Mississippi, SPOOM offers a directory of these sites for sale and although the directions given in them are scetchy at best remember you are looking for landmarks that have been developed around so some of the landmarks described in the directions to these places no longer exist. There have been many many tanks of gasoline exhausted in my search for some of these gristmills only to be not even close to where they really are, thats how much the area around the mill sites have changed, enjoy your quest Barry, we have met some unbelievable people along the way to find them....most of the people that have them now are like minded of our ancestors, self motivated entrepreneurs wanting to restore American heritage for Americans....thanks for your question.

I do Mills with waterwheels only......Thanks for the great info, I will pass that on! Enjoyed the story Ed.

Thank you for all the wonderful comments and questions!

Evening Colors....

The sunset glistens off the balloon canopies at Indianola Iowa.

Back from Texas.... It was hot!

The misty look is just seriously high humidity....I am about a quarter mile from the subject zoomed in to 135mm over the trees. The pilots are a contestant in a contest to knock over a full portacrapper with a person in it.....The way I understood the contest; the balloon pilot and the portacrapper pilot split the money should someone knocks it over.....the door on the crapper is duct taped shut!....thanks Kara.

See the results tomorrow of this crapper caper!!!

Leave me a comment please.

15OCT2012

Beautiful Bridge

It takes your breath away when you see a shot like this in a slow moving stream, a second and a half exposure at F22 ....Mc Clintoch Falls County Park Wisconsin at 1 pm.

This area is a treasure trove of wonderful scenic beauty throughout the year, there are a few CCC lodges scattered in the park with hiking trails leaving the Park in all directions.

Let me know ....please leave me a comment, thanks.....they make me better!

15MAR2012

Spring burst.....Omaha Nebraska

In the eighties today....yea!

31JAN2013

Milling Around

Rising quickly over a horizon of fall foliage the sun reflects the forest of of color that surrounds Dells Millpond as Bridge Creek flows across the dam. The aroma of hickory bacon frying on the millers stove escapes the open windows of the Mill while the hound bays he has treed the raccoon where the river enters the millpond just a short distance away. The bald eagle circles above as I sip my last swig of coffee, i'm amazed that the algae has formed an image of an Indian crossing the pond below the dam.

Submitting this to the state DNR photo and writing contest.

Have a great day, please leave me a comment, let me know your thoughts.

random barn in rural Wisconsin....so many barns .....so little time.

28APR2013

Reed Springs Mill

Have a great day!

First game the huskers play in the Big Ten......all happy people today, Husker nation feels good after a great tailgate.

29MAY2013

Lower Mesa Falls

On the west side of the Tetons in Idaho just outside Yellowstone National Park.

Thanks for looking at my work and commenting......comments make the work process easier.

Somewhat of a change from the HDR work I have been doing the past month. Still busy processing the trip to the Palouse....this was on the way, enjoy!

13DEC2011

The Old Mill....

A cold West Virginia. Glade Creek gristmill the most photographed mill in America sits in the Babcock State Park of West Virginia. Glade Creek flows into the New River a National River. This area is chock full of recreation for all. Plan to spend some time in this area the photo op's are all over the place.

This shot was taken shortly after I fell....I set the tripod up and got the remotes hung, I had to sit down I felt as though i got run over by a linebacker my ankle was killing me I hit square on my back and got the wind knocked out of me..... all that with Linda watching my self induced carnage unfold in front of her on the edge of the bank twenty yards away......I know for sure now there have been times when she thought I was an idiot, but this was one time where she thought I was seriously hurt. Seems as though I have one moment like this on each trip....too close to the edge to close to the wildlife ect... I'm glad she is near me, she keeps me in check. Good thing i don't ride motocross anymore....i would have multiple international symbol refrencing how I'm #1 sign positioned squarely between my eyes.

03JUN2013

The Palouse

From the hill I am on to the farthest one.........five miles.

Wheat fields....amber waves of grain in another season.

From the trip to see Kristy and Nick close to Pullman Washington.

Thanks for looking at my work, have a great week.

18MAR2012

These two stopped by yesterday morning for a bit of the blarney.....

Coffee and bailey's this morning too.....Good Mornin America!

14MAR2013

State Line Trestle

Happy Birthday Mom, your inspiration is overwhelming.

Five Seventeen crosses the South Omaha Bridge into Nebraska from Iowa....this spans the Missouri River.

Omaha is railroad, our town here was built on and by it, hundreds of feet North is the Harriman Center which controls all the Union Pacific trains in America....they use the left side on this bridge.

A full mile away at 400mm 517 is closing at twenty five knots as the sun sets behind me.....hand held, single exposure.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my work, let me know what you think, thanks.

08JUNE2012

The Fruited Plains.......

19NOV2011

This is my last fall foliage picture for the community, snow is upon us and we are lucky we dont have two feet on the ground like last year. Thanks all for the well wishes on my accident, my back is real sore but I am vertical and looking forward to seeing all the family together this weekend. This shot is of Clark Lake Rd. in Door County Wisconsin where it intersects with Cave Point Road. A short distance from here are the caves created by the waves eating away at the limestone rock that is the shoreline. If you are in the area be sure to visit the Cave Point County Park it offers quite a few photo ops of the geology and the thundering wave action in the caves is spectacular. The park offers many picnic tables and a covered gazebo for larger gatherings, along with bathrooms and water. I dont recommend going to this park with NEBRASKA regalia stuck to your vehicle or tromping around the park in NEBRASKA attire the week you got spanked by the Wisconsin Badgers though. Of all the places we went the people here were the most critical and boysterous of our supporting our team, we just laughed them off. We love this great state as well as the other fourty nine and were blessed to be able to share with you our photos and stories of us rambling through the backroads of them all.

08DEC2011

Photo contest winner....

Thanks for all the great comments!!!

Deep into badger country we are at Mc Clintock falls when i spot this bald eagle 200 yards out. We are as far into the woods as we get on this trip....so i am told. Wisconsin Rustic Road 32 was the best foliage in the whole state hands down, the falls are just a half mile off this road. America the beautifull happens here daily, many miles from civilization this is a must see spot. Traveling almost two thousand miles this trip we saw little wildlife, so when i spotted this eagle i ran to the car and got out the 400mm threw on the 2x converter and got four rounds off before it flew away. Before leaving Nebraska we maped out all the rustic roads of Wisconsin, specifically looking for fall foliage, the state becons with beauty on these roads, we found so many great photography opportunities on these roads we could have stayed for many days....

02MAY2013

Hodgson Water Mill

From the trip last month to Arkansas.

Hope you have a great day! Thanks for the wonderful comments and for looking at my work.

16AUG2012

Another Time

Found this wall mural done on tile in downtown Pella Iowa.

Let me know what ya think!

Wow....great comments! Yes this was shot straight on without a tilt shift lens, i'm guessing the mural is six feet tall so most of the shot is above me. The base of the mill is level as is the water at the rocks, the town is level as is the shaft coming out of the top of the mill....it was weird to process, stunning hand painted tiles though!

When we were there the area was super dark, it sits with three other murals each behind a gate placed in front of them these murals have a border that contain them....such an awesome sight and next time I go i will ask to have the gates open and set up the tripod....this is hand held real quick shoot and go.

Thanks Art got er done!

06APR2012

Good Friday Flowers....

Hope your Friday is the best, thanks for the wonderful comments on my Bluejay yesterday!

25DEC2011

Merry Christmas

I'm blessed to have great children....they allow me to find places like this.

I'm grateful i have someone in my life that only wants to be near me, share some of what I have to offer.

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