Photo Fair: blueneck

Hi everyone!  I’m really enjoying the photo fair!  It’s exciting to see so many excellent photos of great subjects posted by all of those who have participated.

You can click on all of my photos to get to a larger version.  I highly recommend the click-thru on all of these images, if your bandwidth can handle it.  I’m still unhappy with some of the larger online copies of my photos as they definitely lose crispness as compared to a full-size print….

I hope you enjoy mine at least half as much as I’ve enjoyed everyone else’s!

First up, a FROG from my recent trip to Michigan, Dedicated to Booman and Susanhu and all my fellow Trib-beters!:


Next up, my furry little friend Cosmo says “Got milk?”:

Here’s two of my bird photos taken in a local State Park.  The first is an Egret in flight, the second is a female Summer Tanager with purple stain on her beak from pokeweed berries:

I went on a trip to southern Japan a couple of years ago and it made a real and lasting impression on me.  These are a few of the photos I brought back:

First, from the International Peace Park in Hiroshima, the “atomic dome” – the remnants of one of the few buildings left standing near ground zero of the blast from the “Little Boy” atom bomb:

“The Lawyer” a huge wooden statue in the Todaiji (“Great Eastern Temple”) in Nara:

Kinkakuji (Golden Pavilion) in Kyoto:

Zen gardener’s tools at Nanzenji in Kyoto:

Next up, a couple of photos from the San Diego Zoo.  The first is the female panda and the second is a photo of a Gibbon (I think):

Next up, a photo I made in the Rocky Mountain National Park of rocks and flowing water in a stream just off of  one of the main roads through the park:

And, last but not least in my heart, a snapshot of the tuba player in a sidewalk jazz band in Jackson Square in New Orleans in the winter of 2002: