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This
lovely fall photo was taken of the Wisconsin countryside by my father more than
twenty-five years ago. It remains a family favorite. |
My brother Ron has been taking photographs
of sunrises and sunsets for years. He took this photograph of the San Fransisco Bay Bridge
at dawn on the morning of September 12, 2001. |
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Fall foliage in
Wisconsin is usually a very colorful affair. Rich colors almost
assault you. Ron took this shot of a much more subtle
interplay between colors, managing to capture that moment between summer
and fall. |
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Mother may not have spotted any leprechauns on her
visit to Ireland a few years ago, but she certainly found gold in this
picture of a rainbow lighting the sky above a stone bridge.
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One family tradition in our house was to make our
own Christmas cards, right down to printing the letters and developing
the photographs ourselves. When my brother and I were young,
our cards were primarily pictures of us. Later, Dad got very
inventive in using his camera to create images for our cards. Since
this particular camera was almost
a
museum piece, he was somewhat limited. But oh, what
wonderful family keepsakes! |
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My brother loves
to take l-o-n-g walks. This is a snapshot he took on a walk in
Wisconsin's Blue Mound State Park. I like the colorful hikers walking through a
dreamlike woodland. |
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A haunting picture of a lonely Irish windmill was taken by my mother. From
this port, famine victims left Ireland in the 19th century never to return. Starving, many
didn't make it to land. I added the red gradient wash in Adobe Photoshop to give the
picture a more forbidding aspect. |
Ever try to take a
picture of a restless 10 year-old girl and an infinitely more
restless 4 month-old kitten? In the dark? My father had the
patience of Job and managed to wait until Sox and I were ready, then
quickly snapped our Christmas photo. |
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The kitten grew up, of course, and
Ron's picture shows Sox as an adult. Much to my delight, he
had this photograph enlarged to poster-size so that I could hang it up
in my dorm room at college. Sox lived a good long life,
passing away at the age of 18
½
years. |
This is another of my brother's beautiful sunset pictures.
Those intense band of complimentary colors make it a striking photograph
of the magic hour at dusk. |
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