Photo by Wayne Peternel 1981

Ran into an old friend, Jim Witt at a wedding. Jim, Morry Gash, Wayne Peternel and I were young photographers working in camera stores in Milwaukee in the early 1980's.

Jim went on to a successful careeer at UPS and has two great boys. Morry is a great photographer and is the Wisconsin Photo Editor for The Associated Press, I keep plugging away as a Freelance Photographer. My friend and old roomate Wayne, I found out Saturday, died at age 42. The same age as his father.

This is a photograph of me at Camp Randall stadium ( UW v. Purdue ). The 300mm lens on my camera was lent to me by Jim, I got the press pass and stayed the night at Morry's apartment while he was away for the weekend in Washington, and the photo was taken by Wayne.

Please save your photographs.

( In Memory of Wayne Peternel this post will remain for one week )

Made for Walkin'

A Different Beat

Good friend Doug Hissom, drummer with the Feral Cats performs at Humboldt Park.

Commute

Heading home after work in the early evening sun.

" The reports of my death....."

Who says the internet will be the end of newspapers.

Field of Dreams ?

J.D. Ward hits baseballs to his brother Roger in Humboldt Park as Milwaukee recorded it's first 80 degree day on Earth Day.

Gallery Night & Day

Gallery Night & Day is this Friday and Saturday.

Light Ideas Gallery 207 E. Buffalo Street

City Hall

A construction worker is dwarfed by a giant concrete facade being hoisted up to the top of City Hall in Milwaukee.

" No Direction Home "

The Real Thing

Walked around the corner and saw this within 100 feet of each other.

Stadiums

The Cleveland Indians had a home in Miller Park in Milwaukee this week.

Ironically, Milwaukee County Stadium served as their home in the movie "Major League". This photograph is of the last weekday game ever played at Milwaukee County Stadium.

Fine Art part 2

Second post today. Dress in window of Three Graces.

Fine Art

There is a new trend of photographers shooting close ups of urban areas and grafitti etc. and selling them as photographic fine art. I don't know, but if I was a painter I'd be a little disturbed. I just wnet outside, walked around the corner and made this photograph...big deal.

Hands down

The hands of Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama ( D-Ill).

Wrigley Field North

Over 110,000 fans atteneded the Brewers - Cubs series in Milwaukee last weekend...easily half if not more were Cub fans from Chicago. Some Milwaukee fans hate it...not me, it was fun !

County Stadium

My photographs of Milwaukee County Stadium are in the " Currently Cool " section of Sportsshooter.com. Sportsshooter is a network of over 7,000 sports photographers worldwide and gets over a quarter million views a month.

How Times Change

This image was made August 19, 2004. Sammy Sosa of the Cubs was one of the top home run hitters until a little thing called steroids came up. The Cubs (sans Sosa) are in Milwaukee this weekend against the Brewers.

Missing

This photo is in the current issue of The Shepherd - Express.

Keep looking.

Ben Sheets

Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Ben Sheets talks with catcher Johnny Estrada in the dugout prior to Opening day. Sheets was nearly flawless in the 7-1 victory.

Opening Day 2007

Opening Day ceremonies at Miller Park. The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 7 - 1.

The Night Stocker

Stocking the shelves late at night.