• Wallula Gap, Washington

    Wallula Gap, Washington

    I recently had the experience of hiking through the mountains alongside the Columbia River in Wallula Gap, Washington. I saw the river from the vantage point at the top of…

  • Wilmington, March 2025

    Wilmington, March 2025

    There is a building near Greenfield Lake that used to have a handful of old cars and trucks parked in the yard. I took photos of them about 15 years…

  • King’s Mountain, NC

    King’s Mountain, NC

    A small town library and other historic buildings.

  • Gastonia, NC

    Gastonia, NC

    Here are a few shots of some well worn buildings in Gastonia. The Martinizing shop is what initially caught my eye. “Martinizing” shops used to be everywhere. I haven’t seen…

  • Auto Shop in Central Illinois

    Auto Shop in Central Illinois

    Somewhere in a small town southwest of Chicago, there is an auto parts and service shop. The building looks like it must have been erected in the 1950s or 1960s.…

  • Midwest Plant Nursery

    Midwest Plant Nursery

    Located just south of Morris, IL.

  • Vintage Cameras

    Vintage Cameras

    Here are a few of the vintage cameras from my collection. There are two Polaroid Land Cameras – an Automatic 210, and a J66, then there is a Kodak Instamatic…

  • Tiger Cruise, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Tiger Cruise, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Here are a few scanned images that I took during the 1996 Tiger Cruise on board the USS D. D. Eisenhower. The squadrons attached to the ship put on an…

  • More Scans

    More Scans

    I took out another bundle of photos tonight, these are from the same time period – early 1995. These were all shot during the Med Cruise on board USS Dwight…

  • Photo Scans, ca. 1994-1995

    Photo Scans, ca. 1994-1995

    When I was much younger, I served in the US Navy from 1994 to 1998. Recently I was looking at a bunch of old photos that I found that had…

  • Hike at Black Mesa, OK

    Hike at Black Mesa, OK

    Note: This article was originally published on October 15, 2014. When I arrived at the trail head, I could tell right away that this would be quite an experience. It…