Who the Heck am I

Welcome to my blog, I ran out of storage space on my last blog so instead of purchasing more space I decided to start another.

Photographing is one of my biggest passions in life. I've been a photographer for 20+ years. Although I have sold some of my work I consider myself an advance amateur. Which means I'm pretty good at pretending to know what I am doing. I arrived from Massachusetts to Northern Kentucky September 16, 2001. I hated it, for months I complained about living here, besides all the redneck jokes I would get there was nothing about Northern Kentucky I enjoyed, when I got over myself I dusted off my camera and headed for the hills, literally, I never fully understood what a beautiful place this is until I was given my first digital camera as a Christmas gift. In all honesty you couldn't get me to move out of this state.

Living so near to Cincinnati (I live right across the river) no other city can offer me more. Art museums, Cincinnati Zoo, symphony, theatre, aquarium, amusement park, Dozens of parks, one of the largest and most amazing firework display in the country and so much more. If you are from the area you know what I am talking about, if you're not, believe me when I say In and Around Northern Kentucky is worth the visit.

I know you will want to check out my other blog, I have shot photographs at the Behringer-Crawford Museum, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati Zoo, Creation Museum, Eden Park, Findlay Market, Fountain, Square, Krohn Conservatory, Rabbit Hash, KY, Railway Museum, Smale Park, Spring Grove Cemetery and much more. Just click on the link below.

Monday, July 15, 2013

My Grandchild


I can't believe how big she is getting. Missing her so much but so glad I got to spend time with her.






We can't always be a happy baby.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Hanging Out Near Verona, KY

 I didn't realize that a calf was lying down, white cows are so cool looking.


I'm not sure exactly what this is but it looks like someone built a bathroom in the middle of nowhere.

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Not Much To Do


If you're from the area then you are very aware of the flooding situation that has been going on in Covington. We were lucky we just had minor water coming into the basement and garage and only because of cracks in the foundation that Greg has patched up. Others around the area haven't been as lucky, they have been cleaning up there basements with not only water but sewage backup as well. Unfortunately not only has it rained for the past week but we've had downpours every day as well. This afternoon the sun finally came out which gave us time (and by us I mean Greg) to fixer up. The pains of home ownership. 

 You know I'm bored when I'm photographing the coppers.
 The neighbors across the way shooting so many fireworks you couldn't even see them anymore through the smoke.

It rained like this yesterday for hours.

Friday, July 5, 2013

Ohhhhhhh Noooooo!!!

If you've been following me on a somewhat regular basis you know that my favorite subject to photograph are fireworks, well for the first time in 3 years I totally forgot all about the fireworks tonight, you would think it being the 4th of July holiday weekend that might have triggered oh I don't know a reminder about tonight, nope instead I decided to have a major brain fart. The photos below are  the first firework photos I had taken, back in July of 2010 before the Great American Tower was even finished.



Excuse Me But......

It's almost 12:30 a.m. and I would like to get some sleep, how about continuing your fireworks tomorrow night? Some of us have to get up in the morning for work. Just sayin.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Camp Ernst Lake Park

Another day taking real estate photos brought me by Camp Ernst Lake Park, some place else I didn't know that existed, not a large lake by any means but certainly a nice place to hang out, rent a canoe or those water paddle whats-a-ma-call-it things, whatever, still looks embarrassingly fun. Don't forget to take a fishing pole. 7615 Camp Ernst Rd. if your looking for something to do, bring the kids, it looks like they have a swimming area as well.






Tuesday, July 2, 2013

My New Job

My blog has been sorta kinda taking a backseat to not only the house & dogs but now my new job. I work for the Realtor that sold us our house which also happens to be one of Greg's friends, I'm extremely lucky I get to work from home, have a great boss and I get to photograph houses. Unfortunately lately the houses I've been photographing are those that are being foreclosed on. Booooo hissssss, bad me. All was going pretty well today until the last two houses I was asked to photograph, I got a little harassed by one owner & a neighbor of the other owner. I wont stop nor will I acknowledge them, don't want to get beat up. I'm half expecting to have the police show up at my house to find out what I am doing. Thankfully what I am doing is not illegal so really nothing can be said or done. I do hope that the excitement I had today will be the worse part of it.

The up side of all of this is I get to go to places that I have never been, roads I've never traveled and sites I've never seen. Today I had to many houses to photograph but I still managed a couple of extra photos.

By the way did I mention I'm getting married? Next week, I know pretty darn fast but it looks like both sides of the family are going to make it. I'm so excited to see my granddaughter! Oh fireworks this Friday plus I bought sparklers to try to photograph as well so stay tuned.