New Camera Photos

Okay.  So I got this new camera.  It's a Canon T1i DSLR.  After playing around with it in the house yesterday, I got outdoors today and took it for a walk over to Blendon Woods Park.  Some how we even ended up in Gahanna at the Dennison College Baseball Field.  Go figure.  Anyway, these are some of what I think were my better photos of this learning stage.  Hope you enjoy them as well.

SQUIRREL!

Red, White & Blue

Blendon Park Trail

GOOSE! (Huh. Don't work as well as "SQUIRREL!")

Ice Shadows #1 (Even though there are 4 of them)

Ice Shadow #2

Ice Shadow #3

Random Shots

These are just some random shots that seem to have a relationship with each other.  Perhaps not as a whole.  More so in sequence.  Just one of the ironies of photography I guess.

Rusting Horseshoe lying on an old road that is usually under water at Alum Reservoir.

An Old Rusting Horseshoe over a barn door.

A pair of pliers found along that some old road at Alum Reservoir.

A Bald Eagle's claw print at Rialto Beach, WA., along with my size 10.5 foot.

Barbara's painted toes.  :-)

Rusting Images

One of my favorite things to photograph is rust.  For some reason I find decomposing metal interesting and I like the various textures that rust produces.  Below are a few of my favorites.

Star Pulley One

Star Pulley Two

Rusty Hinge

Hooked Barb Wire

Chain & Rust

Rusting Lumber Saw

Vintage Truck

Plant Life

I am not a big plant person.  I have a hard time knowing the difference between a Daffodil and an Easter Lilly.  Flowers and flower beds just aren't my thing but that doesn't stop me from appreciating the beauty and diversity of the many plants that this earth supports.  Shoot.. I even grow some of my own.  Noooo!  Not THAT kind of plant!  We set out a small garden every year for our own enjoyment.  Nothing better than "grown yourself" vegetables!

Anyway, here are 4 of my personal plant photos.  I know I have a bunch more somewhere, but these were all I could find for now.

Some kind of dying flower along Alum Creek, Columbus, Ohio

Dryad's Saddle.  Taken in Hocking Hills while hunting for Morels.

Unknown Plant. Olympia National Park, Washington.

Unknown Plant. Near Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Scenic Waters

For a guy who doesn't know how to swim, I sure do enjoy being on and around bodies of water.  It's been that way since I picked up my first fishing pole, probably before I ever entered school.  My older cousins loved to fish and I remember getting to tag along with them.  It's a wonder they didn't toss me in to MAKE me learn how to swim!


I do not fish much anymore, but still enjoy it once in a great while and still enjoying hanging around the shorelines.


Here are a few of my favorite scenic water-related photos for, hopefully, your enjoyment.

Oregon Coast.  I think that is Seal Island out in the distance.

Looking south from Seal Island along the Oregon Coast.

Rialto Beach, Washington

Crescent Lake, Washington

Cumberland Falls, Kentucky

Lake Cumberland, Kentucky

Marblehead Lighthouse, Lake Erie, Ohio

Behind my house.

A stream that empties into Alum Creek, Columbus, Ohio.

Hocking Hills, Ohio

Lost Balls

One day, when caught without a camera, I came upon a rather large blue ball with a willowy cloud pattern that ran throughout it.  This in itself isn't anything peculiar, but the fact that this large blue ball was sitting in the middle of a farmer's vibrant green wheat field and was back-dropped by a cloudless blue sky was.  How did the ball get there?  Where did it come from?  Was it missed by some young child?  I came to the rather brilliant deduction that this ball was quite plainly lost.  Yes, it was surly a Lost Ball.   I find it rather strange that when a person notices an event such as this for the very first time, that they become more aware of similar occurrences as they continue on with their daily life. You know what I mean. You never new there were so many white Honda Accords on the road. That is, until you bought yours. Then every time you pulled into a mall parking lot there they were, waiting for your arrival for some kind of Import Reunion.

Thus it is for me and lost balls. I find them all over the place, and I don't really look for them. They are just there, and I am aware of them. I am starting to see so many in fact that I am beginning to wonder; "Are they really lost.. or are they perhaps..... actually escaping?"

Here are some of the Lost Balls that I've recently met and have been fortunate enough to have had my camera. When I find a lost ball, I have one rule and one rule only. I NEVER disturb or remove it. The last thing I want to do is prevent that lone Lost Ball from completing it's journey. Enjoy.

Stratford Road, Delaware, Ohio

Alum Creek State Park, Corner of Cheshire Rd & Africa Rd

In the back yard of a cabin in Southern Ohio.  Poor ball didn't escape the mower blades!

On the beach of Alum Creek State Park just south of Cheshire Rd

In a culvert along St. Rt 36/37 west of Delaware, OH