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
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
Sunrise
Lakeside Sedation
The pre-sunrise calm of the Lake Michigan shoreline can have a calming effect. This is an early morning view from the beach at Kewaunee, Wisconsin.
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Blue Velvet
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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Glimpse of Heaven
When people learn that I often get up and out while it’s still dark to try and photograph a sunrise, they think I’m a little kooky.
When I capture a scene like this and look around to see I’m the only one there to experience it, I think the rest of the world is a little kooky.
On this particular morning, as the sun began to rise, a small opening appeared in the sky over the Sturgeon Bay, WI lighthouse. Lake Michigan seas were calm that morning.
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Dawn’s Early Flight
On the morning I took this photo, it was a calm and slowly brightening scene. I was focused on capturing the color in the clouds behind the lighthouse.
A large number of seagulls were resting on the pier running perpendicular to the lighthouse, apparently having spent the night there.
For no particular reason, they began to take off and I simply clicked the shutter several times as they inserted themselves into the scene.
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Skyward Inspiration
The sky above Lake Michigan and the lighthouse at Kewaunee, Wisconsin had an inspirational feel to it, complete with calm, reflective water, the dramatic, yet warm, glow of sunlight filtered through textured clouds, a lone fisherman on the pier and a formation of geese high overhead.
This image was taken on a Saturday morning. I was glad to capture the geese flying though the scene, as it doesn’t happen often. (At least, not often enough for me.)
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Sea of Gulls
Seagulls take to flight before the Kewaunee, Wisconsin pier and lighthouse as the sun rises over Lake Michigan.
Yesterday I was on the beach to photograph the sunrise. I had finished started walking back to the car, ready to head home to grab breakfast before going to work. As I neared the parking lot, I noticed a large number of seagulls resting on the beach. I figured, as I got closer, they would eventually take off. So I prepared my camera for the shot.
When they began to take off, with my camera at arm’s length, I just pointed in their direction and snapped away – one-handed because I was carrying my tripod in the other. Looking directly into the brightness of the sun, I really couldn’t see what I was shooting, so I was rather pleased with what I saw when I downloaded the morning’s images to my computer.
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Memorial Morning
I call this image Memorial Morning because it is one of several I took on Memorial Day, May 27, 2013.
It was a great morning for colorful skies. In this image the sun was above the lighthouse and filtered by thin clouds. It created a very interesting light. Taking the photo from shore gave me an opportunity to put some beach grass in the foreground – another point of interest.
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Determined Presence
The sunrise was almost blocked by the cloud bank over Lake Michigan. Even with the clouds, the sun powered through. The dampening effect of the clouds was enough to give this scene an early evening feel.
This is the companion image to Blue Harbor – posted a few days ago.
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Blue Harbor
A morning view of the sun rising over the Algoma, Wisconsin harbor with the piers and lighthouse in the distance.
The foreground is mostly mud and the footprints are from water foul that enjoy piddling around in there.
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Magic In the Making
The sunrise comes pretty early in these parts this time of year. I made my way to the Algoma, Wisconsin harbor to try and catch the sunrise yesterday morning. The sunrise was a 5:35 am. It was a scramble for me to get there in time but, as you can see, I made it…and it was worth it.
This is the view just before the sun would break the surface of the Lake Michigan horizon.
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