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I’ve posted photos before of Old Glory.  She is now on her journey a 22 mile walk from Farmersburg to Bear Run just on the other side of Dugger, Indiana.  A walk such as this doesn’t happen allot.  It’s something to see if you get a chance.

We have some more local beaches near where we live.  But the sand is coarser than that of a beach near a Lake or Ocean.  Eliana and I drove up to Silver Beach in St. Joseph Michigan.  The sand was beautiful, warm and soft.  But the winds were high so swimming was not allowed.  Eliana got to play in the splash pad across the street, play on the playground and we walked out on the pier to get a closer look of the lighthouse.  So, it was not a wasted trip after all.  Even though swimming was not allowed people would go into the water about knee to waist high to keep cool.  It was quite a warm day despite all the wind.  This was Eliana’s first visit to a real beach.  We are going to go back next summer before school starts & do a 2-3 trip instead of a one day trip like this year.  Here is just a snapshot of Eliana on the pier.  Well, really it was an extension past the railed pier not sure what this is called.

Heaven and Jasmine these two sisters were a joy.  Heaven is 4 and Jasmine is 6.  And you would never know that this was their was first photo session ever.  They sure made me laugh.  I’m glad I was able to provide some great first photos for the new family.  Heaven & Jasmine are in the process of being adopted by a great woman.  Danielle I’m sure you’ll love these as much as I do.

Kristy and I had a neat idea for her session.  It didn’t come together in time so we moved on to plan B.  We are still working on plan A so I won’t tell you what we’ll be doing.  But it’ll be great if we can get it worked out.

Recently, I had the pleasure of doing a shoot with Nicole.  She had stated that she loves a good black & white high contrast combo.  So with this in mind I had shot the whole session with black and white in mind.  This black and white is a little different then my normal processing.  But I feel it goes well with this photo.  Behind her is the Chapel at Rose Hulman in Terre Haute Indiana.

Tonight, I had the pleasure of photographing Amanda in Bridgeton, Indiana.  It is a small town that has a covered bridge.  This bridge is on the historic registry & on the tour of the bridges in the area.  Every year there is a Bridge Festival and this year it is October 8-17th.  My widest lens is the Canon 85mm 1.8.  So, I was unable to get a photo with the whole bridge in it.

I’m slowly catching up on editing photos from the 2 Peas St. Louis GTG.  Saturday morning we ventured to Soulard’s Farmer’s Market.  Since I took these photos I missed out on some other photo opps.  Live and learn though.

Eliana and I were walking in Dugger along the railroad track.  We came across this weeded section that had some giant pusteblume {dandelions}.  All Eliana wanted to do was either swing at them or blow them to make them go away.  It took me a few minutes to convince her to let me take a few photos first.  These were no ordinary pusteblume.  They were the same size as Eliana’s hand.  Neither one of us had seen pusteblume this big before.  Eliana kept referring to the giant pusteblume.

On the way to the coal mine we stopped in Dugger.  They just happened to be replacing the railroad track.  It’s not often when you come across them replacing sections on a railroad track let alone building a new one.  Last year I posted a photo of the new track which is not far from this track.  But with my host issues back at the end of April that is no longer on my blog.  Eliana and I watched them work for awhile.  It was very neat.

It just amazes me just how fast that corn does grow.  This was taken 6 weeks after planting.  I need to go out and take another photo at 9 weeks.  Can’t wait to see how much it’s grown in 3 weeks.

About a month or so ago they were getting the dragline ready to stop operation.  And with one wrong move the boom was damaged & it couldn’t be moved.  They were in fear of it causing further damage.  They brought in 3 cranes to hold up the boom.  It sat up until last week.  The guys worked on it to take the boom down.  It is now down and they’ll be doing maintenance and repairs on it for awhile.  Then it will be walked about 20 miles to it’s next digging location.  I can’t wait to see the dragline walk.  The real thing will be awesome compared to the video’s I’ve seen on You Tube.  And of course more photos of it as well.  Near the bottom of the photo is a blur.  If I remember correctly I was trying to dodge birds but I guess I got one in this photo.  And I thought this could use an old look to it.

This was taken in between rain showers.  And all the blooms are gone from this dandelion.  It almost reminds me of a sunflower.  I turned it B&W to add a bit of drama to it.  

It’s that time of year where we see Goldernod all over.  It grows wild mostly in the fields that have not been farmed yet.  But for those that have allergies this is not a friendly weedly flower.  Eliana & Caroline picked some of these yesterday while riding bikes at the airport.  Needless to say last night Eliana started sneezing & coughing more then normal.  So, today she got allergy meds and a breathing treatment.  I turned this photo into black in white as all the yellowy look was making me want to sneeze.  By looking at this photo you’d never guess this was actually a weed and not a flower.  And it was not until I was editing this photo that I noticed it has a few rain drops on it.