Remembering Bernice
Of course, to my brother Mike, my sister Barb and me, she was “Mom.” I’m sad to say that Mom passed away in the early hours of the morning today (October 25, 2009). Mom was 91 and we had spent the better part of the afternoon yesterday visiting her at the nursing home she lived [...]
Seeing Red: Going Green
My wife said that when we traded in our sexy Chrysler mini-van, we would buy a Prius. “What’s a prius?” I asked. She said that it was a car that got good mileage and ran part of the time on a battery which was charged by its own motor and brakes. “Brilliant,” I thought. So [...]
A Few Members of the Rausch Family
This is a candid shot of a family photo that Brian and Katie’s wedding photographers were organizing. That’s why no one is looking at me. I love the light and the soft colors in this photo. The light is late afternoon ambient light sifting in through the east windows on the 22nd floor of the [...]
The First Dance
It is the day after the Big Event and I am tired but happy. We enjoyed every thing about the day, including Brian and Katie’s first dance in their life as a married couple.
End of the Season
You may have noticed a few photos of “Wandering Star” in this blog. Well, here’s another one. There is nothing particularly photogenic about the boat on the trailer, though my wife, Deb, does add significantly. We took the boat off the water this past weekend and it now sits in my driveway waiting for the [...]
Today's Our Anniversary (34th)
How are Deb and I celebrating? I’m in Minnesota at the PGA tournament with my son Brian and Deb’s in Sioux Falls. How’s that for romance? But she is special and I am lucky. And we will no doubt celebrate our anniversary on Friday. Will I give her an opal, which is the gift you [...]
Don't Mess With Her!
It would appear that I’m trying to score points with my in-laws in this blog over the last few days. But of all the photos I took in Alaska, this is one of my favorites. When we walked by the cut-out on the streets of Sitka, Alaska, my mother-in-law agreed to pose. But she didn’t [...]
Captain Jon
Our son Jon has a way of getting work that allows him to get paid to do things that others might do just for the fun of it. This summer he is in Sitka, Alaska, taking tourists on thrilling (and occasionally bone-jarring) rides in the waters around Sitka. The boat is a high-performance Zodiac-like vessel [...]
In Concert
Several years ago our oldest son Brian gave a concert and part of his Senior Project at the University of South Dakota. As I was looking for photos to post to this blog, I came across the pictures I had taken for Brian. There wasn’t much light in the room other than that lighting the [...]
Self Portrait – Corfu, Greece
This is what I look like when I travel. I think this is a flattering view! Behind me is the little grocery store that was just down the road from the hotel my wife and stayed at while visiting Corfu, Greece, in 2006. The store had a little bit of everything but was so small [...]
Bowling
I posted a photo a couple weeks ago that elicited several responses amongst my facebook friends. It was called “Memories for Sale.” Today I am posting two photos taken back in the late 1960s by an anonymous photographer that captures my mom and dad in great form. In looking for photos to decorate my mom’s [...]
Polly & I
Forgive the self-portrait, but since I posted my cat Mac yesterday, I thought I owed it to my dog Polly’s memory to post one of her. This is the last photo taken of Polly. She had been struggling with bladder cancer and had already had 1/3 of her bladder removed when symptoms of her problem [...]
Mac
This one showed up in a folder of film scans I hadn’t looked at in a long time. Mac is fairly young in the picture and looks a little suspicious – he’s probably afraid of my camera.
Memories For Sale
After my father died and my mother decided to move to an assisted living center a few years later, she sold the house in which I had grown up and held an auction for its contents. I was present at the auction and although I wasn’t sad that day, I am saddened now when I [...]
Child Labor?
So far I am responsible for taking the pictures posted on my “Photo A Day” blog. But this photo isn’t my doing – it was taken by a woman named Leah DeGeest. The subject is my wife, Debra and Leah was Deb’s grandmother. The setting for the photo is the DeGeest farm south of Miller, [...]
Katie & Brian
Here’s another one with high sentimental value. I was asked by my recently-engaged son, Brian, to take engagement photos of him and his fiancée, Katie. Of course I said, “Yes.” But I was nervous – partly because I hadn’t done any studio portraiture in months and partly because I had never done any real formal [...]
Helping Hand
My nephew’s new born son Ethan was only a few weeks old when we visited him for the first time. I wish all portraits were at simple as this one – both subjects were easy to pose. I intentionally used a narrow depth of field so that most of the photo would be out of [...]
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