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After being on the go for the last couple of months with trips to Colombia and Argentina, we’ve returned just in time for spring in Wisconsin [it comes pretty late around here]. It looks like we will have a busy summer in many ways... and are looking forward to some new photographic challenges that are coming our way.



5x5: Here are 5 of my favorite photos from 5 talented photographers on dA… please stop by their galleries and check out the rest of their work!!!

My wife and photography partner... "AKA" my "better half"!

We recently went out west to visit my daughter and her family in Paonia, Colorado and happily found time for photo-shoots in the Moab, Utah area [especially Arches National Park] and in Colorado [Colorado National Monument and the Rocky Mountain National Park areas]. My wife and I asked a friend to join us and the three of us rented some long lenses [hoping for wildlife] and flew off into the sunset.



5x5: Here are 5 of my favorite photos from 5 talented photographers on dA… please stop by their galleries and check out the rest of their work!!!

Once again I'm leading off with my life and photography partner... "AKA" my "better half".

We used our summer-long hiatus from dA to work on several outdoor projects: redid our deck, put in a sidewalk, put in a patio and planted nearly 30 bushes and shrubs [half nectar producing... to bring in hummingbirds and butterflies and the other half berry producing... to attract additional birds to our yard]. It’s working pretty sweetly so far... the birds and insects are getting what they like and we enjoy having them on hand to watch and photograph. We each have a set of extension tubes to use on a Canon EF 70-300mm 1:4-5:5 IS USM lens. I love the results compared to what we could do back in the 70’s before the digital revolution.



5x5: Here are 5 of my favorite photos from 5 talented photographers on dA… please stop by their galleries and check out the rest of their work!!!

Again I'm leading off with my wife... it's easy to see that she is indeed my "better half".

I love the return of the spring-summer weather and am hoping that the rainy forecast doesn't interfere with our plans to head up to Marinette County and its waterfalls in a couple of days. We included that area in a February shoot but the waterfalls were covered in mountains of snow so we drove up the other side of Green Bay to Peninsula State Park and the "ice shoves". We're finally armed with decent tripods and are looking forward to the challenge of some longer exposures.



5x5: Here are 5 of my favorite photos from 5 talented photographers on dA… please stop by their galleries and check out the rest of their work!!!

I'm leading off with my wife... she constantly
amazes me with her continual acquisition of new abilities.