Frank Cleary’s WWII Service To Our Country Happy Memorial Day to everyone. This is the story of my Dad’s service during WWII. Frank Cleary was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1919. After graduating from Purcell Catholic High School, he took up photography. He cleaned out the old coal room in the family home and converted …
I made a series of short videos about how I created my Wright Brothers: Then and Now photographs. The six videos are from The Bike Shop, Kite Flying, Flight #41, Speed Test At Fort Myer, Horse drawn Carriages, and A New Kind Of Gull In New York Harbor. The video I’ve included here is Kite …
I haven’t talked lately about the progress of my book Wright Brothers: Then and Now. Can I say, there are many details in producing a book! I’ve written the copy, had a copywriter rewrite the copy, rewrote the manuscript a few times again, had an editor go over the document, and maybe that part of …
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This week I’ve been working with a local company to update their website with photographs from the Dayton region. The two photos that they requested are my night photograph of the Miami River with the Dayton Art Institute, the Masonic Temple, and Grandview Hospital in the background. They also wanted this photograph of a couple …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvZUTlEzJVY&t=463s Here is my latest, Cleary Creative Photography, YouTube PhotoShop tutorial. In this video, I will go through all the steps I took to create this photograph of a couple sitting enjoying the fall landscape at Taylorsville Metro Park, part of Five Rivers Metro Parks. I liked the picture of the couple sitting on the …
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Huffman Prairie is the location where the Wright Brother’s perfected flight. In 1904 and 1905 they made hundreds of test flights perfecting their machine. By 1909 this area was called Simms Station and was the worlds first It is now a national park located next to Wright-Patterson Air Force base. Huffman Prairie is on the …
The Contemporary, our local fine art non-profit organization, started its annual art auction yesterday. This year’s auction will be on-line. One hundred two local artists have contributed artwork to this year’s event. Go to their website, https://thecontemporarydayton.org/, sign up and buy some local art. There are paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures. I donate a piece …
Sunrise Photograph of Low Dam in Downtown Dayton I decided on the 4th of July this year to get up a 4:45 am to create a sunrise photograph of the low dam in downtown Dayton. This was especially designed for kayaks and water sports lovers. This photograph was taken at about 6:04 am, 10 minute …
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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 …