Stormy Crossing

Port Clinton, Ohio

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, Ontario

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

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

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

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.

Lotus Elan DHC SS

Dayton, Ohio

"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

Windsor, Ontario - CANADA

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.

More about this particular aircraft can be found on this page.

http://mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/survivors/pages/44-63889.shtml

Happily - it hasn't bee taken to Reno, Nevada and flown into the ground by some egotistical moron with more dollars than SENSE. I have very strong opinions about taking irreplaceable pieces of aviation history - aeronautically "hot rodding them" - and flying them at the ragged limit until they break and scatter themselves across the desert floor. I can't really sympathize with the pilots. They're (supposedly) sentient beings who should know better. These aircraft are entirely at our mercy - and need to be protected from this sort of nonsense. Pentax Spotmatic w/200mm F:4.0 Super Takumar