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Frozen Beach – Part 4

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Here’s the final installment of photos from my winter beach trip. It’s high time I switched to “warmer” subjects, since it is almost summer in the northern hemisphere.

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Frozen Beach – Part 3

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Small correction: I mentioned in my previous post that I had shot these photos at high noon. Well, it wasn’t exactly at high noon but nevertheless the light was quite harsh. ‘Nuff said.
The first photo in this series shows the silhouette of a nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Michigan.

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Frozen Beach – Part 2

Friday, May 4th, 2007

The second part of my ice-capade continues… (Yeah, I know, these photos were shot at high noon, so sue me).

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Chicago Botanical Gardens, Take 2

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

I just read an article in an auto magazine about an ex-hotshot guy who was Director of the CIA at one point in his career. You know, the type who thinks that bombing Iran and Syria is the only way to go. What has this got to do with the Chicago Botanical Gardens? Though it [...]

Mississippi in Illinois

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Whenever I hear about the Mississippi River, I think of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn floating down the mighty river on their makeshift raft. Oh how I miss the days of my childhood when I sat down with ol’ Mark Twain and devoured every word he wrote. Incidentally Mark Twain is one of the powerful [...]