Our boat builder, good buddy, mentor, and often co-conspirator – Ken Fickett – told us about some folks who get together to race old hydroplanes and Jersey Skiffs down on Lake Dora. He would take his skiff down there as a chase boat and we could photograph the races that aren’t actually races. So off […]
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Lake Dora Canal
It’s Saturday morning on Lake Eustis. The local boat ramp is busy with jet skis, runabouts and some fishermen. The serious bass boats are mostly already out on the lakes. We are to take our skiff through the Lake Dora Canal to, of course, Lake Dora. There we will enjoy the hospitality of the Classic […]
Simple Folk
What do simple folk do? The famous question and song from “Camelot.” Well we’re the simple folk who need something to do, something to play with when we are not out on the water. So we experiment with images playing with colors and textures. Mostly we mess up images and start over elsewhere. Occasionally we […]
MotorBoating Magazine Article “Unplugged”
Now I want everyone to go out to buy the March issue of MotorBoating. The magazine needs a circulation boost as do all magazines these days. Besides I haven’t cashed my check yet. Good heavens, I haven’t even received it! Whatever. The check certainly won’t break their bank however small it is. What’s the fuss? […]
Happy Valentine’s Day
Let’s see – it’s now after 8:00 on the evening of Valentine’s Day and a V day card appears. Whoa, that’s late. Almost forgot the day, huh? What can you expect from a guy who has no real clue how long he’s been married. Nope. It’s Dee’s card. She has worked in spare moments today […]
Two Little Indians
New format. Seems every now and then we change things up. This time the change is what works well with automating production in Photoshop. Now all we have to do once the image is ready is to hit one key to add in signature, border & text, then change the date and title and – […]
