Archive for category: Modern Galleries

Here’s the intrepid group of photographers I led on a photo tour of Port Washington recently. Keeping with the nautical focus of the town, we posed at the Toledo Anchor Memorial in Union Cemetery. These folks are members of the Photo Pictorialists of Milwaukee, a camera club founded in 1904.

The outing began with a tour of the Port Washington 1860 Light Station led my Howard Vrankin (second from right) and me (blue shirt).

The Photo Pictorialists is my only current photo club affiliation. Many thanks to William Stonecipher (second from left) for the great group photo!

This week I presented my Lights of the Lakes show to 40 people at the Geneva Lake Museum in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The show was part of the museum’s “Tuesdays at Two” series. Afterwards, I toured the museum and took snapshots of a few of the exhibits.

• View the Geneva Lake Museum photo gallery

 

Each summer on the third weekend in July, the Wisconsin Antique Power Reunion stages its annual show at Pioneer Village in rural Saukville, Wisconsin. The show features vintage gas- and steam-powered tractors and a variety of historic gas engines. Farm equipment such as antique sawmills, balers, and threshers is also shown and demonstrated. The show wraps up on Sunday afternoon with a tractor parade.

I photographed this show as a volunteer for the Ozaukee County Historical Society. Forty images from the 2014 show were added to the Wisconsin Antique Power Reunion Tractor Show gallery.

I’m fortunate to live within easy reach of the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) facilities in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Every summer, EAA stages AirVenture, the “Worlds Greatest Aviation Celebration.” Known informally as the “EAA Fly-In,” this week-long convention attracts over 10,000 private, commercial, and military aircraft and over 500,000 spectators from over 60 different countries. During EAA, Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh becomes the world’s busiest airport for one hectic week.

A major EAA  highlight is the daily EAA Air Show. The Air Show features formation and stunt flying, military aircraft and battle simulations, and much more.

For the other 51 weeks of the year, attention shifts to the EAA AirVenture Museum adjoining the airfield.

In the Aircraft Galleries, you can experience this spectacular event.

As a Michigan native who grew up in the Detroit area during the Muscle Car era, I have cars in my blood. Not the wimpy imports of today, or European snobmobiles, but classic Detroit Iron like the Chevy SS396, Corvette Sting Ray, Hemi ‘Cudas, Road Runners, Goats and 442s, and original Mustangs and Cobras. Long before the days of the EPA, unleaded gas and air bags, these beasts ruled the road.

My home town adjoins Woodward Avenue, one of America’s premier cruising strips. Woodward’s glory is still celebrated the third weekend of August every year when the Woodward Dream Cruise takes place. Never heard of it? Well, it’s only the biggest one-day automotive event the world, routinely drawing 1.5 million spectators and 40,000 classic cars.

In my Car Show Galleries, you’ll see these magnificent machines in all their glory. I feel sorry for all you Gen-Xers and Millenials. You don’t know what you missed!