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A Sample of Pop’s “Bee” Images

Another Day at Work

Apis Workers' Party

Predator

Some of Your Beeswax

Sedum Bumbler

Look of Defiance

Chicory Bee

Bumbling Bees

Garden Cafe

Buzz By Here - To Infinity and Beyond

Pick Your Poison

Blind Side Attack

On a Mission

Honey Bee on Sedum

Covering the Cosmos

Center of the Cosmos

Three's a Crowd

Popular Spot

On A Pedestal

A Sample of Pop’s “People” Photo Collection

Big Harry Fireworks Display

To Impress the Girl

Different Perspective

Sweet Ride

Perfect Little Piggies B&W

Flipping the Light Fantastic

Festival of Flights

To the Crowd's Delight

Amish Go Round

Wondersome One

The Stars In Her Eyes

Tuesday's Child

Sleeper Hold

Considering the Next Move

Sugar and Spice

Front Porch Portrait

Caged Competitor

Early Adoration

Child In the Ligtht

Stroll Through the Weeds

Attention Grabbing

Eye Contact

On the Line

Eyes of Wonder

Rounding the Curve

Troubadours of Basin Spring Park

Down by the Creek

Sun Day

Catching Some Light

EAA Fireworks

Hear Me Roar

EAA Fireworks – 2013

Fireworks, Airshow, Aircraft, EAA

It’s no secret, especially to those who follow this blog, I like fireworks.  This is one of my favorite fireworks photos.

The fireworks are pretty cool, but my favorite part is the people.  The people are my favorite part because of where they are.  If you look closely, you’ll notice airplanes parked among the people.

This is a view from the fireworks display at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s 2013 AirVenture – held every year in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

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Urban Guardian

Hawk, Power Line, Utility Pole, Blue Sky

On a walk through an urban area, we noticed this hawk perched on the utility pole.  As we got close it would fly and stop at the next pole along our route…a few times. I kept hoping it would swoop down and snatch some prey while I had my camera ready.  Of course, it didn’t or you’d be viewing a different picture here.  He/she just seemed to be surveying the surrounding urban landscape.

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Cloud Formation

Aircraft, Aviation, Planes, Formation, Clouds

A high flying formation of aircraft below a ceiling of clouds. You have to admire a team of flyers who can form and hold such a tight formation at the speeds they fly. This is another view from the 2013 EAA AirVenture.

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Garden Cafe

Spider, Crab Spider, Flower, Yellow, Green
On a walk though the woods I came upon this crab spider enjoying his freshly caught lunch.

The crab spider will just sit still near the center of the flower, doing it’s best to blend in.  When an unsuspecting insect lands to gather pollen, the snatches it and lunch is served.

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Peacock Proud

Hot Air Balloon, Balloon, Colorful, Sky, Up

It’s impossible to ignore a hot air balloon as it breaks the bonds of gravity and fills the sky with color.  It was part of the balloon rally at Seymour, Wisconsin’s annual Hamburger Festival.

This balloon’s colorful pattern on a blue background reminded me of the NBC Peacock logo.

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Pick A Color

Fireworks, Algoma, Shanty Days, Reflection

Algoma’s annual Shanty Days celebration wraps up with a fireworks show on Sunday night.  I was there, on the beach, near the water’s edge with my camera to catch the colors in sky and on the water.

Those familiar with the Algoma harbor will recognize the red light on the lower right of the photo as the lighthouse at the end of the pier.

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Black Forest Light

Leaf, Leaves, Green, Light

To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.  ~  Elliott Erwitt

There is nothing special about these leaves.  There are innumerable other leaves just like them in the woods.  It is the light – at this intensity, at this angle, at this very moment – that make them extraordinary.

Ten minutes beyond this moment, these leaves will fade into the mass of countless, unnoticed, ordinary…again.

This, my friends, is the “art” of photography.

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Pathway to Glory

Airshow, Night, Fireworks, EAA

Fireworks, Airshow, Night, EAAThese are all images taken at AirVenture in Oshkosh Wisconsin – the annual convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association. These are long exposure images snapped during the night airshow. The above photo was a 32-second exposure, the image to the right was 8, the image below was 35.

How were these graceful forms created? An airplane flew an acrobatic routine with some kind of sparkly fireworks shooting from the wings. To capture the action, I had my camera on a tripod and positioned on the area of sky where I guessed the plane would be flying. These were my best guesses and even these have moments where the plane went beyond the camera’s view…and came back.

The long exposure captures the brightest light from the aircraft’s flight pattern. In the dark, the aircraft, itself, wasn’t bright enough or in one spot long enough to be registered by the camera’s sensor.

If you look closely, you’ll see stars that show up as little white dashes. The whisps, particularly noticeable in the bottom photo, are the smoke left behind from the fireworks.

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Fireworks, EAA, Airshow, Flight Pattern

 

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Blue Velvet

Kewaunee, WI, Water, Sunrise, Lighthouse, Blue, Waves, Reflection

The combination of lazy waves, pre-sunrise orange, an opening in the clouds that provided the blue reflection and the lighthouse in the background make this one of my favorite images from this summer.

This image is almost ruined by a swarm of tiny bugs (common around the lake shore this time of year) picked up by the lens as faint black markings in the sky, about the middle of the photo.  You may have to view the larger version to see them.  Most people wouldn’t notice them, but I do, and it almost got me to scrap this image. I could probably remove them with some tedious, time-consuming work – but no time for that at the moment.

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