the ashland ore dock
August 27, 2009 | Categories: travel
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It has been a very fun August! Besides the weddings I shot this month (loved ‘em!), Jess and I actually had a week of vacation (and celebrated my birthday on that trip)! We spent our week in the Ashland/Bayfield area and it was great. I’ve got a lot of photos to process and get up yet I didn’t want to wait until they were all completed. I wanted to get something up sooner, so here’s the first set.
These photos are from the Soo Line ore dock in Ashland. Built in 1915, it became the largest ore dock in the country, at one point having a capacity 110,000 TONS of ore – that’s a heavy load (insert groan here…). Anyway – the rail cars would bring the iron ore out to the dock where it would be shoveled onto huge boats to be shipped off to Chicago and the like. It’s falling down now and they’ve decided to take it down. Luckily for us, some endangered birds nested there and kept it around long enough for us to see it before they start dismantling it. They fenced off more sections while were there, in prep for demolition, which they estimate will take about 1.5 years.











new glarus and paoli
April 20, 2009 | Categories: strobist, travel
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Jess and I took a road trip Saturday to New Glarus, which is southwest of Madison. We wanted to have a beer at the New Glarus Brewery and get out and about on a beautiful spring day.
On the way out to New Glarus, there is a small town called Paoli (Pay-ol-e). It’s a one street downtown from the turn of the 20th century that houses a lot of art galleries, antique shops, and the famous Paoli Cheese house.
Here are some shots from the antique shop that is house in the old mill on the Sugar River:


A whole stack of Brownie cameras sitting on one of the cabinets. I love cameras!

Inside the world famous Paoli Cheese. The sample of the day was the Morel Leek Jack… wasn’t for me…

We made it over to the brewery for a tour and a tasting and ran into some friends from college there for a tour also.

These copper kettles were bought from a German brewery that was set to be demolished. They extend under the floor another 10 feet!

Lastly, we stopped at one of the parks to do a quick photo shoot with the mossy rocks.


christmas eve
December 27, 2008 | Categories: events, families, funny, landscape, travel
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We spent Christmas Eve this year with my step-dad’s family in Oshkosh. An Italian family where the food and laughs never run out. It was cold and snowy outside but inside we had a great time. We finished the night playing the annual game of Tombola (Italian Bingo). This Tombola set has been used every year for eighty some years or so.








viva las vegas
October 23, 2008 | Categories: cityscape, travel
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We just got back from Las Vegas and we had a blast! It was our first time in Vegas and we really enjoyed ourselves. We saw some shows, ate great food, and made a little money. Needless to say I took a fair amount of photos as well. The bottom photo (if you’ve never been to Vegas) is from the Paris Las Vegas hotel/casino.


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