Thanks, Kid Cutz, for the excellent haircut.

A Tunnel in Xenia. I think there's a runway for a rinkydink airport over it.

Am I the only dad in the world whose kid plays dead whenever dad's holding a camera?

A bench by the basketball courts/hockey rink near my house.

Trees!

A new age is born w/ the addition of the Olympus E-500 and Zuiko 14-42mm lens.

Patchy grass up the dam into darkening skies.

Extreme macro of a very tiny unknown exploded seedpod.

Marcia took this through the fence at some farm market while I was in the greenhouse looking for full shade perennials.

A picture of Miles above the Caesar Creek dam outlet.

A birthday present from Miles photographed on top of an old picnic table near the Caesar Creek dam.

This, apparently, is how they roll at the Columbus Zoo. To be fair there was a lot of contruction and remodeling going on (none of it anywhere near this, however, which was near one of the wolf exhibits, as I recall). Hopefully that's why most of the exhibits I wanted to see were closed and there were a lot of long dead end walks where you have to backtrack the whole winding ass way you came and walk, once again, past the sad tiny enclosures full of mud and feces where terribly sad looking animals curl completely still with their ass to the public.

Columbus Zoo, 4.2.08. This was one of the few animals who was:
1. Not part of a closed exhibit
2. Outside and visible
3. Not behind chainlink fence or metal screens
4. Observed through glass actually clean enough to take a picture through
5. Not sleeping with butt pointed at spectators

Outside the Children's Museum in Eau Claire, WI.

I hope, if I go on to become a zombie, people will mark my birthday with chintzy decorations.

I have a fair few fireworks pictures. It seems like a silly thing to take pictures of. I just think it's interesting how much different fireworks look in a photo. A photo is a visual sample of one moment in time but that moment often lasts much longer than the human eye/brain normally registers visually. In the time it took to expose this picture the fireworks left the ground, flew up in the air, exploded outward in every direction and fizzled. Watching it live we experience every part of that process seperately. Here it is as an aggregate. It is much different.

Broken sunlight? Check

Object extends closer than focus? Check

Find the bug? Check

If this plant were sticking out of the left hand side of the frame it'd be perfect.

This flower looks, to me, very much like a freshly molted insect drying its wings. Add the bizarre variegations and it looks alien.

If you showed a picture of this plant to a coral reef underwater that coral would probably have a really nightmarish view of what life above the water is like.

If you like variegated... fughettaboudit!!