I’ve been going through some of my old photographs from the Dayton area to see if there is anything I can do to make them better. This is a photograph I took at Taylorsville Metro park a few years ago in early October. I liked including the couple sitting looking at the fall foliage. I …
On July 18th, 1944 Frank Cleary, my Dad, landed at Utah beach 30 days after D Day. He was an artillery forward observer in General Patton’s 3rd army. He had never been instructed what a forward observer did and was scared. Before he went out on his first assignment, Dad was standing up looking out …
The Bike Shop from Wright Brothers: Then and Now series. This one of the early photographs that Orville took of Wilbur working in one of their bike shops. The historic photograph was taken in 1897 so a few years before they were concentrating their efforts on flight. This is one of my images that was …
Daffodils are one of the first flowers that come up in the spring here in Ohio. I was asked by a client to create two photographs of the 100,000 + daffodils that are planted in their front yard. People stop their cars to look at the spring flowers. Neighbors out walking stop and take selfies; …
Before and After, Sunrise In Miami County Ohio Over the past five years I have created landscape photographs that are on display in Kettering Hospital Medical facilities between Troy and Middletown, Ohio. I created a video of my PhotoShop work to create one of my landscape photographs. This is called “Sunrise In Miami County” and …
After the Wright Brothers had secured contracts with European and American governments, they set up flight schools to start training pilots. The Army airplane trials had been held at Fort Myer, Maryland in 1908 because of its proximity to Washington, headquarters of the Army and its Aeronautical Division, but the commandant at Fort Myer refused …
Ohio Landscape Photographs On Permanent Display In Kettering Health Network Hospital Over the past five years I have created upwards of 200 photographs that are on display in Kettering Health Network hospital buildings and offices from Troy to Middletown. Sunrise In Miami County was created on a fall morning in Bethel Township. I was searching …
Walking The Boulevard des Pyrénées: In Pau, France there is a mile-long walkway called The Boulevard des Pyrénées which faces the Pyrénées mountains in the distance. Wright State University research library has a historic photograph Katharine Wright, Countess Cordelia de Lambert, Orville Wright, and Wilbur Wright walking the boulevard in Pau in their collection. This …
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Wilbur Wright makes more flight demonstrations in Pau, France The next two photographs in my Wright Brothers: Then and Now series were created in Pau, France. Before I went to France, I asked Dawne Dewey, the head librarian at Wright State University research library, if she had any contacts in France. She gave me the …
Wilbur Wright making flight demonstrations in Le Mans, France 1908 At the end of 1905 the Wright Brothers decided that they had a flying machine that worked. They set about selling their invention at this point. Because the United States government and American press had ignored what the Wrights had accomplished, Wilbur was invited to …
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