Photos by Big V

I took this photo long ago and stumbled across it again the other day. My in-laws lived in the Traverse City Bay area, and when we would go up to visit, I would slip over to the bay to take photos. I had a 32"x24" photo of this for a long time but lost it in a minor house fire in 2006. I think I'll... Sign in to see full entry.

As some of you might recall, I re-developed an aortic heart valve in 2012 after the initial surgery to fix it in 2001 began to fail. I was scheduled to have surgery to repair it in July 2013. Unfortunately, Obama was messing with the insurance programs and I lost my BCBS after they had agreed to pay... Sign in to see full entry.

This is a shot you don't often catch. I think this is a young male who has recently been separated from his pack. I've heard for several months in the summer and early fall when a male is about a year old, he splits away from the pack to establish himself. Many go on to return to the pack, but some... Sign in to see full entry.

This pair of eagles were new to the neighborhood, and they weren't really sure about the dogs and I get too close to them. Sign in to see full entry.

I took this shot on one of the lakes in the Seney National Wildlife Preserves, some twenty miles west of Newberry. Rare and unusual breeds of birds are given a place that is protected from all types of predators, including humans. Sign in to see full entry.

I can't remember where I was going very early one morning, but as the sun began to rise, I had to stop to get this shot. Sign in to see full entry.

That's the opening line to one of my favorite songs by Don McLean about Vincent van Gogh... and it surely describes this scene. Sign in to see full entry.

In mid-September of 2020, Lisa and I took a run over to Marquette to see a doctor, and it got too late in the evening for us to make the three-hour trip back to Newberry, trying to dodge deer, moose, and assorted things that would go BANG into the car. We were newly married, and things being what... Sign in to see full entry.

In the slower bends and curves of the Tahquamenon River, ice would sometimes form, giving the thriving river otter a new place to play. This particular day, there were dozens of them playing "hide-n-seek" in the holes they made in the ice. This was a very large male who was inviting his buddies to... Sign in to see full entry.

I was messing with a few new filters I had bought and got this shot. Sign in to see full entry.