Eagles above us
American bald eagles are nested here. Yesterday I was able to get some photos of the eagles cartwheeling and cavorting above our house. There are a lot of bird species here: gulls (of course), herons,…
Category: Vermilion, OH
Changeable Lake Erie
Because Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes, it's very changeable. Mild storms can transform into violet cataclysms instantly. Inexperienced boaters are regularly caught out. Small boats swamped while desperately making for the…
Pre-dawn moon
When I woke at 6:00 AM, I thought a helicopter was outside my bedroom shining a searchlight onto the shore. The authorities still haven't found the body of the man drowned in a recent boating…
Christmas season 2021
As with every Christmas week in NE Ohio, the weather is dismal and gray. When I saw this gold stuff spread about our living room, I grabbed my camera to memorialize the strange event. "What…
Beach market photos
I use my Nikon Z7 camera all the time. Nearly all my paintings include elements from my own photographs, typically mashups of several photographs. Summer is a great time to take photographs, of course. I…
New camera on the beach
It is a sunny and windy day here in NE Ohio. It's jacket weather, believe it or not. It's a perfect day to take my new Nikon Z 7 for a spin. I went down…