6 months ago, I was happy with my wife and three dogs. I had my former attorney friends to talk with and reminisce. My wife was killed in an accident at the high school when two football players in full gear going after a ball ran her down on the sidelines, and she hit her head on concrete and...
I decided to get off my rear and go to the basketball game at the school Linda and I shot football. They were not good in basketball and got blown out by perennial power Heights. I was good to see my football boys cheering the team on. It did me good to get out and see and talk to my old...
On November 6th of this year, my wife would have celebrated another year of life, but instead, we celebrated what was her life in a celebration of life for her. It was held at the gymnasium of the school she loved and was injured while covering a game a couple of months before. Most of the...
My daughter and my son-in-law decided that I would spend a couple of weeks with them for Thanksgiving. They knew that with my wife just passing that a holiday alone was not to be. They drove to pick me and my three dogs up and brought me to their home in Plano, Texas. Yesterday, they took me...
Some of you know that my wife had an accident while shooting a football game when she was knocked into a concrete apron when two players in pursuit knocked her down. She was using her Olympus OM-D Em1x with the 40-150mm 2.8 with 1.4x teleconverter. The force of the collision broke the 40-150...
Friday nights during the fall have meant football. Even without my shooting partner, my wife, I went and did the best I could. I hope she would be proud of my effort. She always was a better photographer!
On Monday, my sweet wife Linda Gregory was on the field as always photographing "her boys" at Northwest High School in their football actions as she has done for the past 9 years. She was hit trying to get out of the way by two football players in full gear and she was knocked to the ground and...
My oldest daughter is savoring her first fish and chips at Pimlico in London. She goes every year about this time to attend Wimbledon if possible and to definitely attend Glastonbury Festival. She is roughing it with a rented tent with all the amenities of a small hotel room and will spend...
11 years ago, my wife and I answered a call to help form an inner-city baseball league that would be affordable, would make the kids feel proud of themselves, and furnish the best equipment, coaches, umpires, and facilities. We walked the inner city area and were lucky to sign up 100 that first...
I have a Pacific Image 3540 u scanner which works well but is very slow in scanning, I also have a Nikon LS-2000 scanner that is great but I am unable to use it since it is SCSI and none of my computers take a SCSI card, and even with VueScan, it will not operate the scanner with several...
It was in the '60s today and with the warmth came a desire to leave the house. We have a membership to our local zoo so we can go as often as we wish. I am certainly past my prime age wise so the length of the visit depends upon how much I can walk without tiring. Today was good and I made it...
Last night, my wife photographed some planes using light painting. She is in the hangars again tonight but I stayed home. Last night, I went along with my two daughters, a son-in-law, a granddaughter, and great grandson to celebrate the granddaughter and great grandson's birthdays. The hangar...
One of our friends is a photographer for our local McClatchy newspaper. He has won many awards for his photos and videos including a Grammy for his video of Father Emil Kapaun's journey from a Priest dying in captivity in the Korean war to his status close to sainthood. It covered his return...
My wife and I are members of this zoo. We go often since the opportunities to capture good images change from time to time. Today it was relatively warm, wind was low and we decided to go after lunch. Hardly anyone was there so it was a good time to spend quality time with our favorite...
After brutally cold days before and on Christmas, our weather finally gave us a break and today was a day with temps in the mid-50s Fahrenheit. We loaded our three dogs into our SUV and headed to the Flint Hills. There are lots of old and iconic structures which are still around but slowly...
It is that time of the year again and everyone tries to celebrate the holiday. Some are not able to do so because of war, poverty, and other tragedies. I, My wife, Linda, my three dogs, Pete, Sissy and Heidi wish you a happy holiday, Merry Christmas. We tried to get the dogs settled down for...
Every year for at least the last 15 years, my wife and I have been lucky to have been asked to help the Young Lawyers of our Bar Association with their annual chosen charity, the homeless residents of the Salvation Army. Every year, I take my camera and accessories to the residence hall for...
In the middle of the State, we have a series of hills that stretch for miles with little or no inhabitants but animals. Mainly cows but lately we have become a haven for wild horses that have been transferred here and also some who have been born here. Hundreds of beautiful animals will stand...
My wife and I got up early and found that fog was covering our area. We grabbed cameras and went to our iconic native American Bosin Blackbear's statue at the confluence of two rivers. It was dark when we got there and it lightened up a bit. I left the Olympus OM D EM 1x home and took the...
I picked up a Fujifilm XT 2 last week and it did not have a lens. I bought an adapter and used my Nikon lenses with MF but I found a great deal on a used Viltrox Mark II 85mm f 1.8. Because I am new to Fujifilm, we had a little setback since I had the camera set on MF and finally found the...
We photograph one of the top-ranked football teams in the highest division in our State. They are two games away from returning to the State Championship game for the 4th time in 5 years. We do not have kids in this school, just kind of adopted this school as our own and have made friends with...
My wife and I photograph a local High School football team and have for the past 8 years. This team is a powerhouse in our State and has gone to the championship game 3 out of the past 5 years. It has produced Breece Hall who is leading the New York Jets in rushing as a rookie, a young man who...
My wife and I went to the Indian Center to watch and record photographically the Friendship dance. This is where Native American dancers as well as all who attend can dance to the drum which was played by three men. There were those there with street clothes and a blanket around their...
My wife had not seen her brother for 23 years. No problems between them at all but he left their home in Ft. Madison, Iowa to serve 4 tours in Vietnam in Naval intelligence and when he came home, he lived there awhile and then married, moved around, and several plans to see each other had been...
Last night was another successful start of a season for a bunch of inner-city boys and girls. It is our 8th Season and we have grown from 2 barely acceptable baseball fields to those two being renovated and a brand new turf field stadium with lights and a scoreboard for the little players. In...
Back in the 70s and 80s, I had a great setup for processing black and white and color film and enlargements. I had two enlargers, a Philips 130/150 Dichroic color enlarger with Philips color analyzer for the color prints, A Beseler 23 also with a dichroic head but used for larger frame black...
Yesterday it was in the high 60 degrees F. Last night we received 9 inches of snow and temps in the single-digit F. I know it is February in Mid America but enough is enough. By next Tuesday, highs again in the 60's.
We awakened to this snowscape this morning. This is an area of our patio which is deep in snow. The esoteric pictures are of a screen sliding door panel on our patio doors with the icescapes.
My wife and I find great peace and calmness in the solitude of our vast area called the Flint Hills. Cattle outnumber humans greatly in this area of very large grazing grounds. We have a special place where we always go to picnic or to just relax and photograph the vastness. We always bring...
Last night, my wife and I traveled 160 miles to watch my Kansas University play Texas Tech in basketball. KU is #7 in the nation and TT was 13. Our seats were in the nose bleed section of the Fieldhouse but it did not matter. I was among the 16. 299 other fans screaming for the Jayhawks. KU...
Last night was the awards ceremony for the images and also to recognize those who had attained a special status as a Pro Photographer as a member of PPA. I know that this is not a college degree as pointed out by a member of the other forum and it is more than described by the poster as a merit...
This is from last year. I am the old guy in Lederhosen. My wife, Linda, holds her dog, Sissy. My companion is Pete and he is on my lap and the little dog named Heidi is trying to get under my hat. She had been a rescue and had been with us a couple of weeks. We are in my wife's photography...
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