Ideas for places to visit in the Midwest
The Minocqua train trestle is one of my favorite landmarks in the area. In the 50’s and 60’s you could hear the trains coming from miles away and watch the locomotives break through the trees to cross the bridge. Today it the trail head for the Bearskin Trail.
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Lanterns light the way at Missouri Botanical Gardens
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Missouri Botanical Garden’s Lantern Festival is hosting acres of illuminated displays. Here is one from a special evening only for photographers. This is the Porcelain Stupas Pagoda, constructed from more than 300,000 plates, bowls, spoons, teacups, ladles and wine cups.
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Another photo of Forest Park’s Great Basin in St. Louis.
Missouri’s Botanical Garden every year hosts their Lantern Festival. This is a massive exhibit of Chinese art. Here is a photo from the 2012 exhibit. Watch over the next few weeks for photos from the 2015 exhibit.
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Nestled in a small bay on northern Lake Michigan is the scenic little town of Harbor Springs. This is a photo taken of Harbor Springs by my father 80 years ago. Dad was an avid photographer who always had a camera at hand. He shared his love of photography with me by making sure I had my own cameras and by taking my exposed rolls of film in for development. On vacations he and I would always go together to the little camera shop in Minocqua, Wisconsin to by supplies. Sadly Dad missed out on the digital camera revolution which he would have loved.
I will be headed to Harbor Springs later this summer, watch for some great photos from Up North!
While St. Louis’ Forest Park is hosting Fair St. Louis, here is a spot away from the activity.
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Cave Point County Park in Door County. This is a three shot HDR processed in Lightroom, Photomatix and Photoshop.
Photography at events such as a car show can be a problem. You have interesting subjects but backgrounds and people milling around can make it difficult to get a good shot. Here I used software that turns a photo in a painting allowing you to make everything look interesting. What do you think?
The St. Louis European Car Show held last weekend had hundreds of old and new sports cars. Here is a Lagonda which is a forerunner to the Aston Martin.
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