The Spice of Life #2

Welcome to the second installment of variety is the spice of life.

While I just recently finished a series on birds, birds, birds, I came across some old images of such, that I thought you would enjoy.

One of the favorite moments of my photographic life occurred when I spotted the two Common Loons you see below. They were and remain a “lifer” for me. They were captured in northwest Wisconsin and they showed absolutely zero fear of me.

We always remember our first, and this young first winter female Snowy Owl was my initial experience with this species. I love firsts.

Two macho male Pheasants take a winter walk.

Car racing.

I have made thousands of images of various sorts of race cars. Action, including crashes, and many wheel to wheel battles. The problem is, almost all were on film before the digital age. Black and white and color print film, and lots of color transparencies. Almost none of those negatives and slides even exist anymore.

I share with you some of the few digital images I ever made of race cars.

Below is a very typical photo of an Indy Car at speed. Most likely he is qualifying. The image was made at the Milwaukee Mile in Wisconsin.

There is no rule written, that when you make single car photos at speed, that you have to show the entire car simply running through the picture frame. That was what the publications wanted, but be it film or digital, they were my images and nobody said that if I got the images my editors wanted, that I could not be a little more creative with my other shots.

Up close and tight. Like they are inches from us, we can decide to turn a race car and driver into a statement of sorts.

Take note, the second car has the legendary racing name Andretti on it. Probably Marco

Little cars (called midgets) on the big mile.

The always tough Bob Senneker in an American Speed Association stock (no where near stock) car at the mile.

A midget and a sprint car on the 1/3rd mile dirt short track in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.

That track I believe, like so many others, is gone now.

Finally, to the also now gone 1/3rd mile asphalt track in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

The first car is a full bore late model, and the second a more limited type of stock car. No stock cars, are actually stock. They have been altered for both speed and safety. The final car is a division for older cars, and the one you see is a beautiful 57 Chevy. One of the most popular cars ever made.

Back to nature.

Rocks? Yes everything in nature, including rocks were to me, both special, and photogenic.

The first image is hard stone, and soft, willowy, falling water. The contradiction between those things always intrigued me photographically.

The next one is an amazing rock, and its reflection. Yes that is water and a mirror reflection accompanying the rock.

Finally we are at the finish line of today’s images.

Geese, some morning fog, on a small inland pond.

Below we have Christianity 101, described the best I can. I remain humble at this in a world where some are soooo good at explaining these things.

We do not get “saved” and go to Heaven because we are very good. We are never good enough. We are not saved and go to Heaven because we are religious. Sometimes our religiousness gets in the way of our Salvation. We get saved and go to Heaven because we “truly” believe and accept what Christ did for us on the Cross. Our sins died with Jesus on that Cross. Only through Faith, can we enter Heaven and have imparted to us the Godliness necessary to sit next to Almighty God

The Bible is replete, as in dozens if not hundreds of times, telling us that. The Lord wants you with Him when your time comes. There is a prerequisite. The choice is yours.

Anything other than what God has given us as to the journey, is pure ungodly ego from either the church, ourselves, or both.

Romans 3: 10-`12
There is none righteous, not even one. There is nobody who understands, there is none who seeks for God. All have turned away. Together they (we) have become useless. There is none who does good, not even one.

Our ego and the egos of many churches or religions have deceived us. Indeed we do very much need to do good, but to believe we will be so pure and perfect as to sit next to Almighty God because of our works, is both foolish and egotistically sinful. Both us and those churches-religions which blasphemously preach it, are litteraly, dead wrong.

Almighty God wants you in Heaven with Him. That is why the human carnation of Him )Christ) took on huge, unfathomably physical and spiritual pain for us.

He bore every sin in my life (a lot) and yours,then washed us clean with His precious Blood.

He became our sin, while on that cross. He felt our pain, and paved the way for us to potentially, if we “truly” accept it, live in Heaven with Him.

May God Bless,
Wayne