Mohican State Park

The other weekend while I went back home to my parents I stopped by one of my favorite places to go canoeing. I have been going to Mohican State Park since I was a little kid. We would go canoeing and then visit some family that live in the near by town of Loudinville. I still love going down there to either canoe, camp, hike, or fish. Its a great place to just get away for a while.
Canon 30D, 17-40mm lens, SanDisk digital film.

Marblehead Lighthouse

Today I went for a drive over to East Harbor State Park and Marblehead Lighthouse. It was a beautiful day for taking pictures and I had a great time. I saw a bunch of Great Blue Herons and even found some deer. The sunset at the light house was really cool, it was a great way to end the day.
Canon 30D, 300mm + 1.4TC, 10-22mm, SanDisk digital film.

Photo Contest

Tonight was the opening reception and exhibition for the photo contest at the National Center for Nature Photography at Secor Metropark here in Toledo. I submitted a few photos and the photo above got honorable mention. There were a lot of very cool and very nice photos entered. So I am really happy that one of my photos got honerable mention!!

Polychrome Overlook

Here is a shot from my last trip to Alaska. I took the long bus ride back to Wonder Lake. While I did not get to see Denali because of low clouds I did get some very nice views of the lower mountains.

Horseshoe Bend

Well I have been busy working and not busy posting. I have been going back through the photos from all the wonderful places I have been over the past two years and trying to get them all organized. Here is one from the summer of 2006 when my dad and I went out to Arizona to hike down into the Grand Canyon. The photo is from just outside of Page, it was a very nice sun rise.

Friday Night Lights

Tonight I went to watch my cousins football game and snaped some photos. It was a close game and Beau did a great job as QB, but they could not pull of the upset and lost 7-0.
Good game Beau!!!
Canon 30D, canon 300 mm, SanDisk Digital film.

Star Trails

This last weekend I was back home for my brothers wedding, man was it a busy weekend. It was also a clear weekend, so I tried my hand at taking star trail photos. I have a little to learn yet, but I was happy with the results. I hope it is clear this weekend as well so I can give it another try.

Canon 30D, Canon 17-40mm lens, SanaDisk digital film.

Treefrog

Well I have been really busy as of late and have not been posting as many pictures as I would like. This is a photo from a couple of weeks ago down in IL. This guy was sitting next to one of the ponds that I check out because there is usually some kind of cool creature to take photos of. He was just sitting on a leaf and didn't mind having his picture taken.
Canon 30d, canon 60mm macro, SanDisk digital film.

Hocking Hills State Park

Well, Julia and I just got back from a very fun weekend camping at Hocking Hills State Park in southern Ohio. It was a great trip and we did a lot of hiking all over the park to see all the cool geologic features. The first photo is of a window at the rock house, which is one of the many caves at the park. We also did some rappelling over at the state forest. This was the first time Julia has been rappelling and by the look on her face you can see she was a little nervous about that first step back. She did a great job and I was proud of her for giving it a try! I can't wait to get back down there!

Grizzly Bears

Friday I spent the day on a Denali shuttle bus, which took me back to wonder lake. Along the beautiful bus ride I was lucky enough to have seen around 9 grizzlies, one of which was nice and close to the bus. The bears were busy munching on blueberries that were growing all over the place. It was a lot of fun getting to see these huge bears that close in the wild.
Canon 30D, canon 300mm, 1.4x TC, SanDisk digital film.

Touchdown

I was out driving around last night and happen to catch this guy landing on top of the Russian orthodox church.
Canon 30D, canon 300mm, 1.4x tc, SanDisk digital film.

Waterfall

Yesterday was a pretty cloudy and wet day, I didn't do much but catch up on some rest, which was much needed. This picture is from last Sunday on my hike to the other side of the island. This was a pretty cool waterfall, I had to climb down a pretty steep cliff to get to it.
Canon 30D, canon 17-40mm, SanDisk digital film.

The view from work.

Here is the view of the church that I see every day while I am working. I have driven by so many times saying "I need to get a shot of this" and so many times I have just driven on by saying tomorrow I'll get it. So I finally got it.

Canon 30D, canon 70-200mm, SanDisk digital film.

Lunch Time!

The other day I drove by the river to see if the kingfisher was there, and sure enough he was! He was sitting on his little branch having lunch. The look on the little fishes face pretty much sums up what happened next.
Canon 30D, Canon 300mm, 1.4X TC, SanDisk digital film.

Little Priest Rock

Didn't do much shooting last night, I ate way too much at the all you can eat king crab and seafood buffet, and didn't feel like hiking around after. So I stopped at this place which I drive by almost every night on my way out to summers bay.

Canon 30D. canon 17-40mm, SanDisk digital film.