It was one of those picture perfect Monday mornings so I threw the camera's in the van, cranked up some easy listening ambient tunes on our Sirius Satellite radio & took myself for a relaxing little tour around the neighboring countryside. Used to do a lot of that years ago & it still remains one of my favorite things to do.
We had a few back to back windy days & that led to some fair size waves crashing along the shoreline on Sunday. Took my camera's & headed off down to the harbor for a walk out on the pier Sunday night. There were even a couple guys with surfboards in the water. The waves would quickly carry them to shore where they would clamber out of the water & make the short dash along the beach to the pier & then out to the end where they would again hastily launch themselves off the end of the jetty into the crashing waves & make another ass over teakettle surfing scramble for the beach.
As the sun dipped to-wards the watery horizon people began gathering at the end of the pier. Always a favorite spot for sunsets. It was a steady wind coming in off the lake & luckily I had dressed warm. More than I can say for the young folks out there in shorts & sandals!! By the time I started my walk back my hands were getting cold. Took a 4 block drive to downtown Bayfield where I stopped for a few minutes & snapped some pictures of lighting on a couple buildings. I will post these photos & the pier pictures into a separate album shortly. My other Bayfield photo album can be found HERE.
Nightime photography is another whole big bag of enjoyment for me. I remember back in 1986 I had an opportunity to attend a large photography convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. While most of the other guys were in the bars & casinos for 2 nights I spent all my time walking for miles & miles along the Vegas strip all the way to downtown Vegas photographing the zillions & zillions of lights. (took a bus back)I was like an excited small town boy in a big city department candy store. I just couldn't get over the beauty of all the lights. That was back in the days before digital cameras so all those photos I took were done on slide film & now sit in a dusty closet somewhere. But, I did get to share them with folks when I used to do travelogues at Seniors centers & the Stratford Art Gallery years ago. Maybe some day I'll make it Vegas again & if I do I will have my digital camera's with me & walk for miles & miles & miles again. I would like that..................:))
STOPPING FOR A LATE NIGHT ICE CREAM CONE
GROANER'S CORNER:(( You know your over the hill when you finally get your head together and then your body starts falling apart.
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The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now...AL.
Hey Al... Loved your pictures today especially the BIG splash! I am soooo happy that September has finally arrived and my hope for cooler weather is high.
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Donna
Al, you have lots of pix on slides and paper, so do we. We are on a now-and-again project of converting them to digital images. Suzy has a Wolverine brand reader that will take 3 slides at a time (and we have thousands!), and we have a scanner which will take 16 at a time, but does each one individually. It's a long-term project that we'd love to finish before we move to the next life.
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