There is a permanent osprey nest at the entrance to Hamilton Beach. It's spring and osprey do what osprey do. I've been visiting the nest most mornings and using my…

A highlight of the summer is the 4th of July fireworks show put on by a generous homeowner here at Hamilton Beach. Although fireworks are illegal in Massachusetts, the police…

After missing last year due to the pandemic, it was good to be back at our summer home on Hamilton Beach, Wareham, Massachusetts. We arrived in early June just before…

I got up early (3:45 a.m.) on May 26, 2021 to witness the "Super Blood Moon" eclipse. May's full moon is called the "Flower Moon." This is the only lunar…

Susan and I returned to Nebraska to celebrate Passion Week with Elisabeth, Jacob, Jens. The Sand Hill Cranes were still in residence and I went out one afternoon to see…

Between February and early April, some 600,000 Sand Hill Cranes take a break from their northward migration between Mexico and Alaska—the largest mass migration on earth—along an 80-mile stretch of…

Winter will always have its way—pandemic or not. I took many of these photos during my morning walks here near our home in Madison. We traveled to Nebraska in mid-December—…

The pandemic restricted our usual travel plans to head to New England and, among other things, enjoy the fall colors. As it turns out, there's plenty of autumnal color in…

We have made four separate trips to Nebraska over the past few months. Photography in a relatively flat place with few water features can be challenging. On the other hand,…

I have visited Italy three times (not including several non-photographic business trips) Florence in autumn 1975 with Susan.Rome by myself: a weekend in autumn 1987.Rome, Tivoli, Capri, and Positano in…

These images were made on various trips to the UK in 1973, 1975, 1978, 1996, and 1998. My favorite areas are the Lake District in northern England and the Cotswolds…

Now that our daughter and her family live in Nebraska, we're getting a chance to explore the Midwest beyond Madison. This gallery includes shots form Madison, Kearney Nebraska, and the…

Susan and I made our first trip to Paris in May, 1973 to rendezvous with our friends, Kathy and Jim, as well as Susan's father. We toured all the usual…

It was finally clear the morning of April 8—the last chance to capture the 'Pink" supermoon. Hiked up "Holy Hill" and found a few compositions with the moon, still 30…

I traveled to the Washington DC area in February 2020 for a ZERO Prostate Cancer conference at National Harbor, MD and to visit Wisconsin Senators and Congresspersons (their staffs, anyway)…

Susan and I traveled to California in mid-February 2020 to visit relatives and friends. The weather was beautiful—and compared to and actual Wisconsin winter, it was basically already spring. Took…

In early November 2019, my friends Dennis, Jerry, and I spent the day in and around Point Reyes National Seashore at the far western edge of Marin County. It's an…

New Englanders tend to think they have a lock on fall colors, but the Midwest—at least Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin—are also chockablock with color during October's second half. Here are…

To learn my way around my new Nikon D850 camera and to improve my Photoshop skills, I've been trying my hand at still life photography.  The main subjects have been…