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A few years back, the bridge over the Mississippi river at Muscatine Iowa was something to see. Color changing lights were added to the structure and it made it a great subject to photograph at night. Unfortunately some painting and repairs needed to be done in 2017, and while the lights are scheduled to come … Read more
I had the extreme pleasure of watching a local fox emerge from his den…while his misses tended to what I hope were a big litter of kits. For some reason, fox, and other predators, get a bad rap from a lot of people and I have to assume they are living in the past. The … Read more
After a monumental sunrise, once the sun breaks over the horizon, I generally call it a morning for landscapes. The light is often too harsh and shadows too strong to work with. But if there are light, wispy clouds around, you can get more mileage out of the morning. And that’s what happened here. The … Read more
The whole wide ether is the eagle’s way. The whole earth is a brave man’s fatherland. – Euripedes
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.” – Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull