Firebush - Stoutsville, Ohio - 27 October 2009. As I post this - less than four days later - the bushes are bare. That's the nature of autumn in Ohio. If the light is good and you're thinking about shooting some pictures - do it - otherwise tomorrow the weather will be horrid and all the leaves will be on the ground. Leica IIIc w/15mm F:4.5 Voigtlander and 200 ASA Kodak Gold.
AC Cobra 289 - Dayton, Ohio - Spring 1975. Looking back, I realize this is the only 289-cubic inch Cobra I have ever seen. All the others are the more hulkish 427 version. I like the moe delicate lines of this version. I undestand they were also more fun to drive than their more brutish successors. Pentax Spotmatic 35mm F:2.0 Super Takumar
A Vanished Place - New Burlington, Ohio - July 1970. This particular place vanished beneath the rising waters of a recreational resevoir in the early 1970's. A friend of mine, Dan Patterson, did a lot of the photography for a book that described the town in its' final years. 
Globe Swift - Hamilton, Ohio - November 1987. On an unusually warm fall day two of these aircraft showed up at the same time. One pilot looked old enough that he could have been one of the Tuskeegee Airmen from WW2 - still enjoying - if only in his memories - piloting a P-51 Mustang through the skies. I Googled this particular aircraft and it turned up still flying out of Madison, Indiana. Nikon FE2 w/35-50mm Sigma
Truss Bridge - 24 October 2009. Drove over to Glendive from Miles City, MT – doubling back once to shoot a truss bridge over the Yellowstone River just east of Fallon, MT. I have since Googled the bridge and discovered that some other folks are as impressed with it as myself – trying to get it listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Robin was driving her children to the new day care center in town. The children were addicted to the large purple velociraptor like a bird overtaken by the pheromones of his mate. They demanded that they be allowed to attend, they had to, they were born to. The name on the sign seemed rather odd but there were children out playing on the jungle gym's and swingsets in the side yard. The sun shined brightly yet seemed to cast eery shadows over the parking lot and building. Once parked, the children scrambled from their car seats, flinging open the sliding door on the "soccer mom" van. They scampered off into the building ahead of their mother. Screams of delight instantly turned to screams of terror upon entering the new facility. Seemed it lived up to it's name. In the back corner of the room was a solid concrete wall with shackles and chains, 2 children were there, bound in the chains, crying for their mommy's when all of a sudden, the lights dimmed and the scream of a hellish beast could be heard....all the teachers were chanting in a foreign tongue, and then ................it appeared!!!!!!! - by John Westenhaver
I never trusted that damned purple thing from the moment we brought it home from a garage sale. It always seemed to be leering at the outher stuffed toys. I begged my older brother to keep them seperated. Then one afternoon we came home and were confronted with this scene of carnage in our garage. It is true: "In the End there can be only One. . . "
Shot from te observation deck at Cox International Airport. Try doing this today.
Very graceful airliner - daparting the gate.
Same airplane - being dismantled at a TWA facility in Kansas City, November 1979.
Probably the most graceful of Boeings' jet designs.
The tiny out-rigger wheel is shown here to good advantage.
Boeing B-47 Stratojets - Fairborn, Ohio - July 1970 / Tucson, Arizona - July 2007. As a matter of fact, when the black & white images were made, the B-47 had already been out of squadron service for five years. I've got some slides of these birds actually flying around at Armed Forces Day airshows at Wright Patterson AFB. I've always thought they were very graceful aircraft. Zeiss Ikonta Super B and Nikon FE2.
Daughter on a Swing - Cincinnati, Ohio - October 1988. Maricela and I visited the newly opened Riverfront Park - and she got to swing on a big swing. I have regular photos of her on a swing having a good time. The shadow treatment seemed more graphic. Nikon FE2 w/35-70mm Sigma on Ektachrome.
Union Pacific 8444 and a pair of steam powered rotary plows wait for the call.
Driver Union Pacific 8444 - Cheyenne, Wyoming - Summer 1973. Besides the light shimmering off the driver, I noticed the whole thing was slathered with a fine grease to prevent corrosion. What remains of the roundhouse at Cheyenne houses the 844 and a Challenger 3985. Both are honest to God Titans of the rails. Zeiss Super Ikonta B w/Ektachrome.
The I was, at 5,000 feet . . . - Versailles, Ohio - November 1991. It was a cold and windy morning. . . This was a setup for an advertising photograph for a maker of "authentic replica" WW2 flight jackets. One fellow was wearing the new jacket. The other fellow was wearing vintage WW2 gear. The point was - you couldn't tell the difference. Aircraft in the backround is an Allison engined P-51A Mustang. Nikon FE2 w/35-70mm Sigma - Kodachrome.
Just another big black H2 Hummer . . .
Vanity Plate - Columbus, Ohio - 07 October 2009. This beast was parked in the vivistor lot outside Mount Carmel East Hospital. It is one of the better vanity plates I've ever captured. The pocket digital camera is tailor made for this sort of stuff. Panasonic Lumix DMC LX2
Stormy Crossing - Port Clinton, Ohio - September 2009. A photo of the Miller Boat Line ferry that runs from Port Clinton,Ohio to Put-in-Bay, Ohio. It was shot last week when the waves were cresting at 10 to 12ft. One hour later they hit 14 and they shut the boats down for the rest of the day and part of the day Tuesday. The ferry is 96 feet long and stand 20 feet tall from the water line to the top of the pilot house. That should give it a little more perspective to the size of the waves. Photographer: Billy Market.
Cold Swim - Lake Superior - June 1976. On a graduate geology field trip to Ontario, one of the places we camped was on Lake Superior. A couple guys went for a swim. This was the last fellow out. He was about as blue as the water. Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic w/35mm F:2.0 Super Takumar.
Capri RS 2600 - Dayton, Ohio - August 1977. It was a rainy day for an autocross. Some interesting vehicles showed up nevertheless. This is probably the leanest and meanest Capri I ever saw. It ran as fast as it looked. Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic w/35mm and 24mm Super Takumar. 
1917 Stoutsville, Ohio - No matter how well preserved, buildings from another time seem separated from me. The people that inhabited them are long gone - so they are less than they were - different from what they were. Adding snow is, for me, a sort of visual acknowledgement of this separation.
Mixed Drink - Boulder Colorado - 1973. This Black Widow Spider landed on my hand while I was reading one evening in Brackett Hall, University of Colorado. I flipped it onto the floor and my enterprising roomate - in turn - tossed her into a partly filled shot glass of Southern Comfort. That made short work of the spider - and created (I thought) an interesting image to be captured. The negative was thin - and I never got a decent image off it until the advent of Photoshop. Kodak Recomar 35 9 X 12 cm sheet film camera. Kodak Tri-X.
"N" Sticker on the rear bumper and the Ministry of Transport number suggests (to me anyway) this car was originally bought by a United States Air Force officer on station in the UK and subsequently brought to the United States.
Classic British sports car interior - circa 1967/8.
Lotus Pilot - May 1975. This fellow struck me as the quintessential Lotus pilot - complete with the wool sweater, beard, touring cap, and that expression. . . It would be ten years efore I finally got a 1972 Lotus Elan Sprint DHC for myself. I don't think I still have sweater like that, as big a beard, or a touring cap. I always thought they were something of an amusing affectation. Asahi Pentax Spotmatic w/35mm F:2.0 Super Takumar - Kodachrome. 
CF-FUZ - This is how this particular P-51 Mustang appeared at the Dominion Day Airshow in 1974. Alas - it is no longer painted a stylish black, white, and red. I've always felt that if you could put a P-51 Mustang into a tuxedo - this is how it would appear.
