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Tag Archives: Fond du Lac
Fond du Lac Lighthouse
This is another image of the Fond du Lac lighthouse, located at the Southern end of Lake Winnebago, at the entrance to the Fond du Lac Yacht Club.
This summer I’ve set dates aside to head back up to “Fondy” and shoot some more images of the area, including the iconic lighthouse.
October 2009. (2941)
Changing Leaves
Autumn seems to have come and gone very quickly this year. For being my favorite time of year, I didn’t get as much photography in as I would have liked.
Like any fan of the Chicago Cubs, “there’s always next year.”
October 2009. (3063)
Fond du Lac Lighthouse at Sunset
Growing up, I would often visit my grandparents in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The bedroom I would sleep in was upstairs and faced the Fond du Lac Lighthouse. During the winter, the city of Fond du Lac will decorate Lakeside Park with a plethora of holiday lights and the marquee decoration seems to be a cut-out of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer on the top of the lighthouse. Rudolph’s nose would be the lighthouse’s blinking red beacon.
For a kid, it was the coolest thing ever: after climbing into bed, I would watch Rudolph’s nose blink on the top of the lighthouse until I drifted off to sleep.
I’m fairly certain that’s why, even now, I have a weak spot in my heart for lighthouses.
October 2009. (3101)
Fond du Lac Lighthouse at Sunrise
This is the Fond du Lac lighthouse, located at the Southern end of Lake Winnebago, at the entrance to the Yacht Club.
I was up visiting my mom for a day or two and wanted to get up one morning to take pictures of our nearby lighthouse at sunrise. So, at 6AM my alarm goes off and as I’m getting ready to head out my mom said she’d like to come along. I warn her it’ll be boring and cold, but sure!
So, my mom and I sat in the car waiting for whatever Mother Nature would present. Eventually, there was about twenty seconds of sunshine peaking through the clouds before the sunlight went away for the rest of the morning and, keeping with tradition of my friend Danny and I, my mom and I went for breakfast. I do love me some breakfast after an early morning photo shoot!
October 2009. (2949)
Yellow Flower and Bee
On my desktop are a boatload of flower pictures that I need to decide what to do with: upload them to Facebook, put them on this blog, dump them to Flickr, etc. This spring I feel like I have been obsessed with flower photography, moreso I feel like I’m obsessed with getting shots of bees pollinating flowers.
It’s a basic principle of life we learned about in grade school. The flower creates pollen, and bees carry that pollen from one flower to another, thus allowing the flower to reproduce itself. When I bought my macro lens, I saw — for the first time with my own eyes — pollen on the legs of a fly about to be carried to another flower. There was something about that small world that I was intrigued by.
Last weekend I was up visiting my mom and staked out some nearby flowers. On the sunny day of my visit, the flowers had opened to the sunshine and bees were working their magic. This particular bee doesn’t have as much pollen on its body, but I still like all of the detail visible in the little guy.
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Lake Winnebago, on the Rocks
For years, I had grown up on Lake Winnebago and, aside from playing around our “neighborhood,” I never explored the parks around us. In Fall of 2009, my mom and I went for a hike along the shores at one of the county’s parks. It was a beautiful day, and being a weekday, we had the park to ourselves. My mom was patient as I played with a variety of filters and settings to experiment with different ideas. For all the years I had lived there, I never realized how pretty some of the public areas where.
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Caesar
This dog, Caesar, is one of the most active dogs you will ever encounter in your life. To this day, I still have no idea how I got him to sit while I laid in the grass and took a picture of him with the rainbow in the background. I probably had 0.0000003 seconds to snap this image of him before he bolted away.
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Lake Winnebago Sunrise
The sunrise over Lake Winnebago, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
I went home to visit my mom for a couple of days at the end of Summer, just as the temperatures were starting to cool down. I heard my mom wake up early and comment (to no one in particular) about the pretty sky. I like the simple, light colors of this sunrise.
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