I take many of my images in local preserves and wetland areas. Most of them incorporate walking and/or biking trails to enhance the nature experience for the visiting public. I liked the way this path snaked back and forth through the woods, narrowly missing, yet preserving, a number of the mature trees. When I got the image home and began looking at it more closely, I decided to try changing it to sepia tone. It was perfect! Black and white was too stark, but the sepia gave it a softer, more peaceful look.

This photograph also has a more personal meaning for me. A few months ago, I gave this image to my niece and her husband as a wedding gift. They believed, as did I, that the photograph served as a representation of the path their lives were to take together for the future. Congratulations Jen and Zack...may you find joy along the road ahead, and lean on each other when life throws you a curve.

This image may be found on page 2 of the "Landscapes" gallery at:

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Drew this from a photo taken on my first trip to Denmark (strawberries, adidas shorts, 1995), strøget in Copenhagen. The photo itself is bright and sunny and colourful, but for some reason I changed it to sepia and old-fashioned. Well, it's historical, for me. I was nineteen and adventurous (and skint). I just decided one day to go and pick jordbaer in the south of Fyn, meeting lots of interesting people along the way. Back in those days they didn't have the long road bridges between the isles: a trip across Denmark meant getting on lots of ferries. There was a great ferry that the train rolled onto, and off again once in port, straight onto the tracks. That hot summer, the night in Copenhagen came last. I must have had about ten quid's worth of krone left. Doesn't get you very far in Denmark. I went to an atrociously bad hostel, paid my money, sat on the bed (with the hudnred or so other beds in the converted gym around me, got up, went to the front desk, got my krones back and went off into the night. My bags were locked at the station, and went to a karaoke bar, and while singing 'going underground' I told Denmark about my predicament, and I swear I didn't have to buy another drink that whole night. I was younger then. I got on the bus for London the next morning (the bus! Back before the cheap flights boom, the 24 hour eurobus ride from hell was the way the poor travelled) I had one Danish krone left, one of those coins with a hole in it. I threaded a piece of string through it and made it into a necklace. I probably still have it somewhere.

I've been back a couple of times since, each with different stories. A friend of mine just had his stag do in Aarhus, another place I've been a couple of times; wish I could have gone this time! I could at least afford the drinks now.  I love Denmark, it's expensive but the people really are the friendliest.

Sunstream, originally uploaded by Richard Adams.

Another taken at the same time as the one below. I left the colour in this as it added to the intensity of the sunlight and teh effect of the sun streaming through the leaves.

A single black-eyed Susan standing bold and alone…in sepia.

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...think..., originally uploaded by ZildjianPro.

I took this pic in my yard a while back. Original was shot in .raw format and then edited on Photoshop CS3. What do you think?

The Monochrome 2009 calendar has been released.   If you'd like to explore the contents of the calendar then have a look here

Missie, did you figure out what the symbol on this one?

I told Harry that I was going to get a August and Minerva photo.  For anyone that has been reading Harry's story, August is loosely based on himself, and Minerva is loosely based on Missie.  I think this one will do nicely.

Or any of them really.

Here are some interesting stones.

I saw this in a side section that didn't have too many stones.  It's in French.

Alice in Wonderland (Laced)

Alice in Wonderland (Unlaced)

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I actually met Joe a few years ago at the Fond du Lac Open (a disc golf tournament). His dad was the one who got our local course put in, and when we were introduced we both had our cameras out to take photos. If you want to see some of Joe's photography, you can check it out here. It was fun to be able to meet his lovely wife, and I wish them many more happy years ahead of them.

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