Category: Ohio

Located about 30 miles east of Columbus, Dawes Arboretum always represents a wonderful photographic location. It doesn’t matter the time of the year, the weather or anything else, there’s nearly always something that sparks the imagination.

Call it stir crazy or something else, but sitting inside gets boring after a while. This was one of those cases. The actual temperature this  January day was around minus 3.  Despite freezing my butt off, this was a good day for shooting. Snow lay everywhere. The sky was a crisp clear blue. The green evergreens popped in the wintery sun. Several of my favorite prints came out of this day’s shooting.

The tree above is at the top of the hill above the Dawes Arboretum hedge lettering and just below the overlook tower. There was no one there this day. It was too cold.

Post processing for this image was in Corel Painter.

 

 

It was a bright sunny day, and I almost had to stand in the middle of a state highway to capture this image, but fortunately, no one was coming.

This was shot in Eastern Ohio.

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I’ve been working on a personal project entitled Across the Bridge for a number of years. It is an exploration of how the more interesting things in life are usually across the bridge.

This image is the inspiration for that series.

One fall day I was wandering eastern Ohio, following country roads along rivers and streams when I saw an older steel girder bridge. What looked to be on the other side was interesting, but the bridge itself didn’t look none too safe.

So I parked the car, and hiked my way across the bridge, carefully picking my way through the holes and missing timbers in the deck. About midway across, I looked down river and saw this wonderful scene. It meant straddling a missing timber and watching the water rush past 20 feet below me, but I didn’t fall in and I love this image.