Laura and Jezelle 2009

Our daughter in law and her new grand-daughter and, our great grand-daughter Jezelle. Taken at a spaghetti dinner for the Scouts.

Camera: Canon XSi with a Canon 50mm F1.8 lens using natural light

Our daughter Linda 2005

Our daughter Linda at Terra and Eric's Christmas Eve party at at their house

Camera Canon Powershot Pro1

A family group picture 2008

At the Olive Garden with Kelly, Judy, her father Bob and graduate Colette.

Taken with a Canon XSi with the kit lens at 1/60 -F/4.5 and built in flash.

Colette, Judy, Kelly 2007

My daughter in law Judy and two grandchildren, from left: Colette, Judy, Kelly and their dog Emily.

Taken with a Canon Powershot Pro1: 1/125 sec at F/4.

Our grand-daughter Kelly with her cat

Kelly is graduating High School this year. Wow does that make me an old man. We have pictures when she was a baby. We were over to see their new place and I saw this moment.

Taken with a Canon Powershot Pro1 at 1/60 - F3.2

My good friend Jim in his office 2005

Jim was the twin brother of Bob. I knew them since I was 14. We had lots of good times together. Jim had made up a book of poems. I took and made up the cover shot shown.

Taken with a Canon Powershot G1.

Ken's watching television

Our youngest son Ken in his younger years watching TV on a weekend afternoon.

Taken with a Nikon F2S and a Vivitar Series 1 70-210mm lens

Ken with a Guitar in the mid 70s

Ken at the guitar with his sister Linda in the foreground. Notice the ear plugs in Linda's ears, just kidding.

Taken with a Nikon F2S with a 50mm Nikor F/1.4 lens.

Kevin's Baptism

My sister Virginia with Mark, my son and his son, Kevin, at the church.

Taken with a Canon Powershot G1 with flash.

On our pond tour

We thought this bronz of the little girl reading a book looked interesting so I took this shot.

Shot with a Canon G1.

A water lilly

One of our many water Lilly's in our back yard Koy pond. Every year they multiply.

Taken with a Canon Powershot Pro 1 (no data).

The Primarflex II, one of my favorite cameras

The Primarflex II is a 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 single lens reflex with a Carl Zeiss Tessar 170mm lens. It used 120 roll film. I purchased it in Germany during my tour of duty there in 1951-53. I still have that camera but it's not in working order.

Scot, Tracy and my wife, Ellie, in the 1980s

The boys are building flying stick airplane models at the Du Page County Fairgrounds model airplane show. Their flights didn't win anything but they had fun.

Taken with a Nikon F2S and a 50mm Nikor 1.4 lens.

The great Tuba player

Our granddaughter Paige puckered up for me to use her picture in Adobe Photoshop. She really doesn't play the tuba but we had fun putting her behind the horn. the only part of her used was her head. That's her brother Michael's reflection in the horn.

Tracy and Beth 1991

Tracy and Beth fell in love and got married in 1992. At this time they have four of our grandchildren. Tracy is checking Beth's heart to see if he's exciting her.

Taken with a Nikon F2S with a Nikor 50mm F/1.4 lens at our house. Film was: Kodacolor.

My daughters Vickie and Laurel Date ?

We had a nice visit with my daughters, Vickie, from Florida and Laurel from Berwyn IL. Laurel was pregnant with one of our grand children. I can't remember which one, shame on me. Maybe some family member can help so I can give this shot a update.

Taken with a Nikon F2S with a 50mm F/1.4 lens.
Film: KodacolorII.

Kelly with the Hibiscus 1997

Our grand-daughter Kelly was visiting us one day and she looked so colorful with the Hibiscus, I just had to capture the moment.

Taken with a Nikon F2S 35mm film camera with a 50mm Nikor F/1.4 lens and Kodachrome film.

Violeta at our house 2008

We had one of the rare visits with our Great Grand-daughter Violeta. She's such a delight. A ham when she gets her picture taken. She is very photogenic though.

Taken with a Canon XSi, hand held at 1/15 sec - f/3.2 with the 18-55mm kit lens using natural light. ISO600.

Violeta's 4th Birthday party 2008

Wow! Violeta our great grandaughter is 4 already. How fast the time goes when you get old. Seems like yesterday she was a baby. Anyway, she had lots of fun on her special day.

Taken with a Canon Powershot Pro1: 1/60 - F/3.2 Natural light

The dummy and the beauty

Just horsing around in Photoshop. I liked the Charley McCarthy and Marylin Monroe Pic. I thought I would like to take Charley's place..... Well! I can dream can't I.