Some Door County scenes
Fish Creek viewed from the state park




Cana Island Lighthouse


Traditional fish boil at The Old Post Office


Lake Michigan whitefish


Plenty of shopping

 

20 feet above the local playground. I believe it's dormant but still sort of terrifying. Note the spider web nearby.


An unusual scene the other night. You wouldn't believe all the chatter this caused on the neighborhood chat. Chemtrails! Aliens! Good grief.


End-of-season boat ride

 

It still makes me crazy how degraded my images are compared to the originals. Sigh...

Pretty sure it's the compressed dynamic range. Haven't all displays been HDR for years now? Why are we stuck back in the 90's.

 

 

 

It has been quite a while since I posted to this thread. Here are some shots (recent and archival) to correct that.
NOTE: some of these shots may appear a bit oversharp depending on how and what size you view them. They were originally processed for social media and anticipated the majority of viewer would be using a phone display.

The falcon image was shot from about 150m away and I was surprised and pleased by the level of detail I could recover. I couldn't tell if the species of the bird until I took the shot.

The sunrise shot was a chance occurrence. We had rented a house to stay in while attending a family wedding and it turned out that the sunrise aligned with the dock perfectly. Something that would only happen on that day. It mean I couldn't sleep in since I checked the sunrise with TPE (The Photographer's Ephemeris) and not only saw a favorable forecast for light but the position of the sun. It did turn out to be worthwhile to short myself on the sleep.

Barn Swallow


Northern Rough-winged Swallow


Mute Swan


Common Grackle



Great Blue Heron


Guinea Fowl


Green Heron


American Goldfinch


Peregrine Falcon


Sunrise over the Magothy River at Severna, Maryland
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It has been quite a while since I posted to this thread. Here are some shots (recent and archival) to correct that.
NOTE: some of these shots may appear a bit oversharp depending on how and what size you view them. They were originally processed for social media and anticipated the majority of viewer would be using a phone display.

The falcon image was shot from about 150m away and I was surprised and pleased by the level of detail I could recover. I couldn't tell if the species of the bird until I took the shot.

The sunrise shot was a chance occurrence. We had rented a house to stay in while attending a family wedding and it turned out that the sunrise aligned with the dock perfectly. Something that would only happen on that day. It mean I couldn't sleep in since I checked the sunrise with TPE (The Photographer's Ephemeris) and not only saw a favorable forecast for light but the position of the sun. It did turn out to be worthwhile to short myself on the sleep.

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Northern Rough-winged Swallow

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Mute Swan

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Common Grackle


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Great Blue Heron

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Guinea Fowl

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Green Heron

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American Goldfinch

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Peregrine Falcon

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Sunrise over the Magothy River at Severna, Maryland
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Nice! That last one is worthy of my Desktop background.

 

Some recently taken/processed shots...

Barn Swallows


House Wren


Northern Rough-winged Swallow


Red-bellied Woodpecker


Church Tower


American Goldfinch


European Starling


Guinea Fowl


Great Blue Heron


Tiger Swallowtail
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Some recently taken/processed shots...

Seems I might have duplicated some images from a previous post. Sorry about that.

 

 

Very off topic for this thread -- and it's video, not photos -- but the scenery is just breathtaking.

I had to share it somewhere.

 

 

 

Sunrise at the beach this morning (and freezing cold)

 

I love the sight of wind turbines in the morning.

 

Sunday Thanksgiving turkey.

 

On the subject of photo's. I just watched the documentary of a famous picture of the VIietnam girl, Phan TucKim Phuc running from air attack.
It definately looks like photographer Nick Ut took the credit for all the years since.
But now looks like a Vietnam indipendant photographer, these were called 'Stringers' by AP who gave the guy $20. for the photo. and published it themselves as Nick Ut as the photographer.
Who, BTW has made a lot of $$$ since!

 

No idea about the truth of the matter but it's far from settled.

In 2022, Nick Ut and Phan Thi Kim Phuc traveled to the Vatican to present Pope Francis with a a copy of the "Napalm Girl" photo. Kim Phuc is featured in the picture as a 9-year-old girl, fleeing a napalm attack.
Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images


https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5400606/napalm-girl-photo

Just this week, Ut and his legal team watched The Stringer for the first time.

"This is not journalism. This is fantasy filmmaking," Ut's attorney Jim Hornstein told NPR. "Nick is disgusted by the film. It's an alternative universe created by Gary Knight and the VII Foundation."

Hornstein says The Stringer is filled with fabrications.

"They have chosen to rely on totally unreliable witnesses and an alleged forensic workup which is completely destroyed by the AP report and will be destroyed by our own expert," he said.

Hornstein insists that Nick Ut did take that famous photo, and says he's preparing to file a defamation action against the filmmakers of The Stringer.

https://www.ap.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TerrorOfWarReportUpdate_May2025.pdf

David Burnett, then a 25-year-old photographer who mainly worked for Time and Life but was on assignment for The New York Times, was among the journalists on the road in Trang Bang as the napalm attack hit the village. He said the journalists waited from a safe distance because they were unsure of where the napalm was. It took a few minutes for the victims to start fleeing the village. Burnett saw Ut and fellow journalist Alexander Shimkin, a freelancer who had been covering the war primarily for Newsweek, sprint ahead of the others and start taking photos as Kim Phuc and other children emerged from the smoke.8 A photo9 shows Shimkin near Kim Phuc as she ran up the road. Shimkin, a former civil rights activist, was killed in Vietnam just a month after the attack.10 “There’s nothing that ever has given me pause to think that Nick didn’t shoot that picture,” Burnett said.11 Burnett himself missed the precious shot because in that moment he was struggling to change the film in his camera.12 Burnett has told a consistent version of this story for decades.

What's important to me is the girl lived to have full life. The many photos of the dead are still on negatives, never to be seen.

 

Did you get to watch the documentary,? It seemed to me that it was pretty evident that Nick Ut took the credit. undeservidly
As your article shows, it reveals that it was most likely taken with a simple Pentax 35mm camera, the vietnemese chap that said he took it, still had his old Pentax, ( I happen to own one of the same model., BTW),

 

Did you get to watch the documentary,? It seemed to me that it was pretty evident that Nick Ut took the credit. undeservidly
As your article shows, it reveals that it was most likely taken with a simple Pentax 35mm camera, the vietnemese chap that said he took it, still had his old Pentax, ( I happen to own one of the same model., BTW),

No, I won't waste my time on that documentary as I don't really care either way.

I wasn't there, so I don't know, but she was. The picture stands on it's own.

One voice missing from the movie is that of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the young girl in the photo and unquestionably the true victim of the event. Near the end of the film, they address that absence with words on the screen: “Kim Phuc was unable to speak to us.” Kim Phuc declined to speak to them because she rejected their narrative. “I would never participate in the Gary Knight film because I know it is false,” she said in a statement.

No one investigating the creation of a photograph more than a half century later can have any true certainty about what happened.To overrule a photo credit given at the time would require clear evidence the decision made by those at the scene was incorrect. Such certainty is simply not possible to have here

https://apnews.com/project/terror-of-war/