A little break from posting photos from my Philippines trip.
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Winter is coming to an end and Spring is just around the corner here in Wisconsin. This week the weather has been great! Sixty degree weather (Yes, 60 degrees...my family and friends in California can laugh now), clear skies and more importantly...no snow.
Everybody has been indoors all winter long and now that the sun has been shining, we can't wait to head to the outdoors.
I took this photo this past Monday after work at High Cliff State Park. After enduring my first winter here in Wisconsin, this native Southern Californian is ready for some sunshine. Here I am directing the sun to stay a while to give me some beautiful light for one last photograph. Yes, I am that powerful!
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Another photograph from my Wisconsin series as I take a break from posting my photos from my Philippines trip.
Some of the best sunsets in Wisconsin are in Peninsula State Park located in Door County. It gets very cold in this part of the world so much that bodies of water freeze over (as a native Californian I just find this fascinating). The frozen body of water you see here is Green Bay (yes, as in the Green Bay Packers football team).
As I was driving through the park, on a road that was parallel to the frozen bay, I noticed people walking on the ice and admiring these strange ice formations. They are called pressure ridges which are long cracks in the ice that occur due to repeated heating and cooling. They are also a sign that winter is ending and spring is beginning as temperatures begin to rise.
I have never walked out on a frozen body of water before, but I thought it would be a great experience and besides there were other people on the ice so it would be safe. It was only after I started walking on the ice did I realize that with 45 degree weather (warm for Wisconsin) and the pressure ridges in front of me did it dawn upon me that the ice was thinning out and maybe I shouldn't be out here.
I quickly put that notion aside when I scouted a perfect location that would make for a great sunset shot. When I came back that evening, I was the only one walking around on the frozen bay among the pressure ridges. I was risking death in the event if the ice cracked and I fell in the icy, cold water!
The things I do to get that perfect shot. Please remember I am a professional and do not attempt this on your own!
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The memorial statue of Red Bird, chief of the Winnebagos, stands guard over the lake and waves goodbye to another sunset at High Cliff State Park in Wisconsin.
High Cliff is the only state park on Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin's largest lake. High Cliff gets its name from the limestone cliff of the Niagara Escarpment. It's also the nearest state park to my home and a great place to experience a sunset. It was a great reminder that Spring has officially arrived here and that this native Californian survived, endured, and suffered through his first Wisconsin winter!
I can finally put away my down jacket, snow shovel, and ice scraper. Now the only thing I have to get use to is that the locals call the coastline along Lake Michigan the "beach." Yes, there's sand, sun and water, but it's lake water and that's not a beach in my book. Give me sand, sun and the Pacific Ocean and we have a beach!
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The city of Fond du Lac is about 35 minute drive south from my home in the Appleton area. The French translation means the "bottom, or far end, of the lake" since the city is located at the bottom of Lake Winnebago.
I photographed this lighthouse, which is Fond du Lac's most recognizable landmark, at sunset in Lakeside Park. The first time I photographed this lighthouse was back in the winter a couple of months ago when the weather was deadly cold. I didn't realized how cold it was because I kept warm in my SmartWool thermals and North Face down jacket. It was only when I took my gloves off to adjust my camera settings did my fingers experience frostbite from the dreadful Wisconsin cold!
I used the remarkable Canon 5D MKII full frame camera to capture this photograph. The camera lives up to its reputation for amazing image quality! This is perhaps the best camera Canon has in their current line up. Kudos to Canon.
This time around I didn't get frostbite, only a serene moment to enjoy nature's light show.
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Statue of Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli on the Riverwalk in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
"The Fonz" was originally a minor character in the sitcom 'Happy Days', set in Milwaukee during the 1950s. For those fans of the show you may remember he was known for his catchphrases: "Whoa", and "Aaay!"/"Eyyy!" and who can forget his famous thumbs up!
One thing that amazed me was that the life size statue was much smaller than I imagined (but of course Henry Winkler who played the "The Fonz" on TV is only 5'6").
Happy days are here again!
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