Tag Archives: Lake Erie

Remembering Summer

With temperatures dropping into the single digits tonight and lake effect snow in the forecast, my mind turned to a warm summer day back in July.  I was at the Fairport Harbor Lake Metropark beach waiting to see some of … Continue reading

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Tall Ships Revisited

Now that cooler weather is setting in, it’s time to go back and edit some of the photos that I took over the summer and never had time to work on.  Today I went back to the photos taken during … Continue reading

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Aloft on Lake Erie

Revisiting my blog post of July 7th, “A Look Behind the Scenes…”, I decided to go back to the tall ship photos of Cleveland’s Parade of Sail and work on some detail shots.  With a little Photoshop creative work I … Continue reading

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A Look Behind the Scenes: Post Production

Earlier this week I had the opportunity, along with photographers from the Cleveland Photographic Society, to photograph the Parade of Sail as about 7 tall ships sailed into Cleveland Harbor for the annual Tall Ship Festival.  We were on the … Continue reading

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The Coast Guard in My Life

I was going to followup with last week’s post about train restoration at the Midwest Railway Preservation Society but instead I think I’ll talk about a place and an organization that have both had strong influences on my life. Growing … Continue reading

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Is It Spring Yet?

It looked and felt like spring yesterday, so after working a few hours in the morning, teaching a photography class, I decided to take advantage of the nice sunny day to take a photographic road trip. I’ve been up in … Continue reading

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Where’s the Real Winter?

  Although it did snow last night and last Friday, we have not had the kind of snow, nor the kind of winter that we have had in the past!  Two years ago, in December, we had the famous frozen … Continue reading

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Fall Colors

As I’ve said a number of times on the blog, I’m not much of a nature or landscape photographer, but occasionally the landscape is so compelling that it draws me out to photograph it!  Most years, the autumn colors in … Continue reading

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Some Favorite Sentinels

I’ve always loved lighthouses.  I collect them in the form of miniatures, photos, and even ink stamps as part of the “Passport” program of the United States Lighthouse Society.  Last winter I blogged about “Cleveland’s Frozen Lighthouse”  and what it … Continue reading

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A Three Hour Tour, A Three Hour Tour

Recently I had the opportunity with fellow Cleveland Photographic Society members to take a three hour tour on the charter boat “Holiday“.  Fortunately, unlike Gilligan, we did not get stranded on a desert isle!  What we did get though was … Continue reading

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