On Friday, June 19th, the remnants of Tropical Storm Bill provided me with my best storm day of 2015 so far. Going from very little in the way of storms all year to two tornado warned storms in one day, both in my own back yard, is like getting a deluge in a desert. Although I didn't see anything on the ground from my location, an EF0 tornado was confirmed from the first of the two tornado warned storms in Troy, Indiana, just across the river from me. I will break up the rest

Even though photography takes up most of my time, I will always consider myself an artist first. I consider photography an art form in itself, but I got my start with drawing. I was one of those kids who never stopped drawing from the time they first picked up a crayon as a toddler. I was drawing profile pictures of the starship Enterprise when I was 5 years old. In middle school, I was the geeky kid on the school bus with his head buried into his notebook sketching pictures

Saturday, June 6th was a busy day for me. I had been up late the night before for my birthday and had 4 photo shoots to do. First, I had the dogs at the animal shelter to photograph. From there, I immediately went to the tractor pull at the Lewisport Community Center. Having filled my memory card, I rushed home to dump my images into my PC, recharge my batteries, and then headed out to the festival's car show. Later that evening, there was a great fireworks show. Fortunately,