The beach at Sawyer, Michigan

The Lake Michigan beach near my home offers great photographic possibilities.


A rather unusual morning with a wonderful color mood.




Misty mornings are especially interesting.


Lots of gulls usually dominate the beach.


A sunset scene with aircraft trails in the sky.

More digital beach photos

The light is different every morning, often spectacular.


Sometimes the moon is visible.


As the sun rises these great color effects don't last long.


Dawn at Lake Michigan.


Misty mornings create a very different mood.

My digital photographs

I live in a very beautiful area of western Michigan, near the Indiana border. My town is Sawyer and I am a short walk from Lake Michigan. Frequently I walk down to the beach at dawn to take some photographs, often the views are spectacular. Only once or twice have I seen anyone else on the beach at that time, people don't know what they're missing. Here are few of my photographs, most were taken with a very small Pentax Optio S. It's only a 3.2 megapixel camera, but I can easily make large sharp 13 x 19" prints without any trouble.


I am thinking about doing a book of these photos and I have done a cover layout.


None of these photos have been altered in any way on the computer.


It seems that every morning is different, the colors and mood changing daily.


This shot happens to be taken at dusk.


Another photograph taken at sunset, the colors are unusually beautiful.


Here's my tiny Pentax Optio S, it actually fits into that Altoids box and is very easy to carry around. I have several larger Pro cameras, but the Pentax is usually in my pocket when I go for a stroll.

Another strange photomontage

Photomontages are great fun to create and are relatively easy to do in a simple program like Photoshop Elements 2.0.


A photo of my old cat, Soto, he was a fine boy but is no longer with us. When I first got Soto I also adopted a Scotch Terrier puppy which we named Angus. They were like brothers and got along very well.
Anyway, I thought that this photo might make an interesting photomontage.


A photo taken in Puerto Vallarta.


I added more dark foreground to the Mexican scene and by combining the two photos I created a weird, but interesting scene.

Back from Florida

Just got back from Jacksonville, Florida where Gloria and I attended the 50th anniversary Corvair Convention. Lots of Corvair fans brought their cars, most were in beautiful shape.


A golden beauty.




I was invited to attend the convention as I designed and did the artwork for the original announcement teaser ads that appeared in newspapers across the country. It's hard to believe that fifty years have passed since then.

My cats are great fun

Gloria and I are still at the Corvair convention in Jacksonville. Here are a few more cat pix minus Tiff.

Sometimes it's difficult to work on the computer

My chair ? That's Jpeg and Tiff taking over.




Jpeg loves to snooze like this while I work on the computer.


Jpeg just loves that moving arrow !