As I look out at all the snow on the ground today in Wisconsin I wish I was back in Key West! Here is a shot of two guys enjoying a paddle around a Marina in Key West - and a case of beer is helping them! I do enjoy…
Doty Island in the Fall - Taken from Riverside Park in Neenah. This is not a shot right out of the camera but had some adjustments. The main adjustment was to add negative clarity in Lightroom. This gives some glow around the details and almost makes the photo look like…
Tomato Tamato... potato pootatoo... you say it your way and I'll say it mine! I took this photo at the Madison Farmer's Market 10 years ago. I used my trust Canon XSi DSLR and a nifty fifty Canon lens. what really stands out are the excellent colors. The reds of…
When is a 75mm lens a 50mm lens? AJ sitting on a ledge was taken in Oshkosh, Wisconsin during a test shoot. This is not technically a 50mm lens shot! What is it? Well, it is a 75mm medium format film shot. So why am I including it in the…
Sometimes the only description you can come up with is a "Cool Breeze in a Neenah Alley"! Made me think of what the phrase Cool Breeze means... A quick Google search turns up 166,000,000 hits for cool breeze. Not much help! I guess to me a Cool Breeze is someone…
While I love portraits the most, I sometimes do a bit of commercial work. This shot is from a book short stories by Bruce J. Kokko. While currently out of print Bruce's book A Final Word on Love is available. I am really proud of this cover shot, a fraying…
I was not always a 50mm fan! My first "good" lens was the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 - the nifty fifty. I shot everything with it and after a while got a little bored. The same perspective on every photo and I shot everything pretty much wide open. Fast forward…
Let's be friends! The best pictures tell stories. One look and you mind starts asking questions - who is she? What is she thinking? What does she want? You cannot really pose a picture like this. At least most of the time. You have to be ready to catch the…
Rocks and Snow on the shore of Lake Winnebago, Neenah, Wisconsin. This image is cropped out of a 50mm frame. So maybe this is cheating a bit because it is not really a 50mm image. Well, my website = my rules! Beauty is where you find it. I think you…