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…

The goal of our road trip was to arrive in California and be with our family to celebrate Susan's and my 50th wedding anniversary in our favorite vacation spot: the…

Early on July 12, 2019, Susan and I drove away from the beach house in Massachusetts (in a downpour) and headed west to the Monterey area in California where we…

As a photographer, I've been pretty dedicated to achieving an image that accurately reflects the scene as I remember it when making the original image—and I'm still pretty dedicated to…

Why go to an official fireworks show when you can have one right across the street from our house here at Hamilton Beach? Even though private fireworks like these are…

It's been a rainy springtime at our beach house here on Hamilton Beach, Wareham, Massachusetts. I've been photographing right around here since 2003, so it's difficult to come up with…

In early April, my Mom and I drove down the "River Road" (CA 160) that parallels the Sacramento River between Sacramento and Antioch. Locke is a small town founded by…

It was a beautiful spring day and Susan, our 7-year-old grandson, Jens, and I headed out to Indian Lake State Park, about 10 miles northwest of Middleton. Jens and I…

Wisconsin weather is a jokester. Just when you think spring is finally here, there's one "last-gasp" snowstorm—this time on April 28, 2019. This "snow event" gave me an opportunity to…

My grandson, Ivan, and I spent a warmish day in late March on a photography outing touring the countryside west and north of Madison. We visited Blue Mound State Park…

Well, I think Susan and I are now officially Midwesterners—having survived the cold, snowy winter of 2019. With snowfall measured by the foot and temperatures as low as -26ºF, it's…

While Big Sur may be more famous, the Sonoma Coast, some 80 miles north of San Francisco is just as wild. To my mind, there is no more dramatic meeting…

I took a day trip with a group from St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Middleton. We rode the bus through pouring rain for a while and two and a half…

The differences among seasons are much more obvious in Wisconsin than in California. Winter is brown or white; spring is light green; summer is darker green; fall is every color.…

Even though fireworks are illegal in Massachusetts that does not stop the various beach communities along the South Coast (and I presume Cape Cod as well) from putting on their…

Some 75 miles south of Bar Harbor and Acadia is one of Maine's most picturesque harbors: upscale Camden—a major tourist draw on the state's central coast. Camden's centerpiece is its…