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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

Sepia

Upward Call


Sea Gulls, Birds, Monochrome, Sepia, Lighthouse, Lake Michigan, SunbeamsThe sea gulls soar upward as the sun beams stream downward over Lake Michigan and the Kewaunee, WI lighthouse and pier.  Since the colors were somewhat muted, I decided to convert this one to a monochrome look.

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Winter Tangle

Winter, Cold, Ice, Branches, Monochrome, Icicles
Wisconsin winters can be brutal…and beautiful.  This ice-coated shrub is a chilling sight, but also an interesting study in contrast, light and refraction.

Refraction:  the fact or phenomenon of light, radio waves, etc., being deflected in passing obliquely through the interface between one medium and another or through a medium of varying density.

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Grassland Lighthouse

Lighthouse, Sunrise, Sunset, Monochrome, Sepia, Beach Grass

In a few moments, the sun will rise in the middle of this image. Before the blinding light breaches the horizon, the clouds create a dramatic background.

I’ve taken countless photos of this lighthouse and decided to take a lower angle. I lowered my tripod to just a foot or so above the ground – shooting through the beach grass.

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Beach Bum

Beach, Sand, Cockle-burr, Sepia, Monochrome

Just lounging on the beach, he portrayed an irritating aloofness with his pronounced stubble and unkempt hair continually sculpted by the wind.

A good deal of my photographic endeavor is spent at the beach, watching and waiting for a sunrise.  Sometimes the sunrise that shows up is less than spectacular.  But, I’m there with my camera; I might as well take some pictures. That’s where images like this come from.  I start looking around for something…anything…that might catch my eye.  Most of what I shoot at those times would not be worth sharing. Yet, now and then, I frame up something interesting.

For those who look, there are odd items to be found on the beach. This cockle-burr seems to be wrapped in the down shed from some shorebird.

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Digital Divide

Child Reading, Child Portrait, iPhone, Sepia, Girl, Book, Father, Daughter

A father-daughter moment – dad browsing with his iPhone and daughter browsing “old school.”

Sometimes a “moment” just happens.  This photo was taken in May of 2011 while visiting family.  There were a number of other people in the room, visiting, laughing and having a good time.  I was down on the floor focusing my photographic effort on the little girl, snapping pictures and didn’t really notice the symmetry between her and her father in the background until I saw it on my computer screen.

This image actually took a good deal of work and digital magic. Beyond converting it to monochrome, there was another person in the shot and a fourth person’s foot that I had to remove to isolate my subjects.

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January Fog

Foggy, Fog, Field, Farm, Rural, Tree

Whatever lies beyond that tree has been swallowed up by a eerie mid-winter’s fog.

This is was snapped in the middle of the day, in the farm field across the road from our rural home in Kewaunee County, WI.  I’ve taken quite a few photos of this tree over the years.  See… Spring Enchantment, Day’s End Elm and Serene Sunset.

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Bold and Beautiful (monochrome)

Sometimes I like taking a favorite color photo and removing the color – making it monochrome – to see how the change affects the image.  There are times when the B&W version is better…and times when it is not.  This is a monochrome version of Bold and Beautiful.  You can look and both and decide which you like better – color or B&W.  I like aspects of both and would call this one a toss up.

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Winter Beach Morning – sepia

I can’t believe I hadn’t posted this image before.  I’ve been working on bringing images to my sales site and discovered I’d never posted this on the blog.  I’d posted the color version in March of 2011. (See it HERE)

This is a winter view of Crescent Beach at Algoma, Wisconsin on the western shore of Lake Michigan.  I took this early in the morning following a huge snow storm.  The snow was still blowing, but the camera didn’t pick it up.

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Unrequited Love

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This was a quirky combination. Start with new sprouts on this very young tree. Add it’s location; growing next to the one remaining strand of old barbed-wire fence. Top it off with some unusual light.

It was enough to make me stop, stare and snap.  I thought it would work best as a high-contrast, monochrome image.

This is another image gathered while tromping through the woodlands not far from out home.

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