Closed doors...

I wonder what closed doors are all about. More later.

More from the Chicago Botanic Garden

Paintings:


Pencil sketch emulation in Photoshop®

Pier Wisconsin on Lake Michigan...

Discovery World, connecting innovation, science, technology and the environment with exploration and learning through interactive exhibits and experiential learning programs; and the S/V Denis Sullivan - the world’s only re-creation of a 19th century three-masted Great Lakes schooner.

This first image is a 48" x 16" panoramic image made from six different images approximately 11" x 17" (vertical) each and stitched together in Adobe Photoshop® Photomerge. Each image was photographed with a Canon 5D (full frame sensor) and a 50mm lens at 6 AM on August 2, 2009.

This image is a 20" x 10" (cropped) wide angle view of a single image photographed with a Canon 20D and a 16-35mm lens at 16mm, at 6:20 AM on August 2, 2009. While the buildings appear larger in this image, the image itself is about 1/2 the size of the panorama.

Here is another panoramic view (50" x 15") featuring the S/V Denis Sullivan, but not the full depth of Discovery World. The lower east side Milwaukee skyline is in the background.

Discovery World.

Chicago Botanic Garden - a panoramic view.

Kathy & I took a day trip to this Gem in the Cook County Forest Preserve. The Japanese garden is one of the 23 gardens on the 365 acre site. Sansho-En, the garden of three islands, is a tribute to simple beauty and form. Click on the image to see a (much) larger view.

Brady Street Photowalk

Brady Street is filled with coffee houses, nightclubs, restaurants, vintage clothing and thrift stores. Saturday, July 18th from 4 - 6PM saw over 50 photographers descend on the area to put Brady Street on the photo enthusiast map.
Brady Street duplex.

In the 1880's, Brady Street became a commercial district of Yankee and German shops. In the 1960's, Italians and other groups began to leave the neighborhood for the suburbs, while the hippies and other bohemians moved in. The 1980's saw blight, neglect and decay, but now the area has been revitalized and has become a model for New Urbanism.

Scattered showers.

New business on Brady Street.

Flood Control Basin on the Milwaukee County Grounds...

A six-year journey by the MMSD is well underway at the Milwaukee County Grounds to help reduce the risk of destructive floods along the Menomonee River. As with all MMSD flood management projects, the County Grounds basin is designed to protect against the one-percent probability flood, commonly called the 100 year flood.

This view is across the Underwood Parkway from the Hanson Golf Course Clubhouse.

The new Marquette Interchange profile...

... like it's always been this way. This panorama view is taken from the 6th Street Viaduct over the Menomonee River.

Riveredge Nature Center panorama images...

Riveredge Nature Center is one of the premier nature centers in the Great Lakes Region, widely recognized for providing innovative environmental education to learners of all ages for 40 years. Their goal is to build a self-discovered awareness that we are part of nature, and to empower people to act on that knowledge.

These panoramas are created from a series of digital images shot with a vertical orientation. These are then opened in Photoshop® CS4 and blended with Photomerge.

Menomonee Valley Park - Chimney Park

See the 2010 update - the chimneys have been demolisherd.

Chimney Park runs along either side of the 35th Street Viaduct, on the northern half of the site.

This is one of the central features of the area - there are two tall smokestacks, the only remnants of the site’s long history as one of the nation’s largest rail yards.

Chimney Park also offers more passive uses, such as unprogrammed turf areas organized around naturalized stormwater management ponds and meadows.


RenewTheValley.org is a broad group of partners working to restore the neglected river valley at the very heart of Milwaukee. Menomonee Valley Partners, Inc. envisions a redeveloped Valley that is as central to the city as it was in the past.

Kletzsch Park Falls

Glendale is an area once inhabited by Potawatomie Indians, it has been said there are burial grounds along the Milwaukee River as it winds through the park. Kletzsch Park had become one of the most popular parks in the county park system during the early 1930’s – with a river swimming beach and picnic area.

Kletzsch Park was also greatly improved with the use of relief labor. A Civilian Conservation Corps camp was established in Kletzsch Park in May of 1935 and discontinued in November of 1935.

The CCC projects completed included a new dam built across the Milwaukee River with CCC labor. The new structure, built of reinforced concrete in a serpentine design to lengthen the crest, provided increased discharge capacity without widening the river. Models prepared by the landscape design section of the planning department served as guides in erecting the stone facing and the fish ladder built into the face of the dam. The dam has the appearance of a natural waterfall.

Historical information from the “Friends of Kletzsch Park" website - and click on Kletzsch History.