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Nostalgia redux
Well this is interesting. I’ve had a blog over on blogger since Dec 2024, and have been a somewhat sporadic poster over there. But I’ve always been frustrated with the crappy user experience and limitations. So a couple of days ago I went back and logged onto my long defunct WordPress account. Way back when…
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Dark Skies
Several weeks ago I had the pleasure of giving an introductory talk on dark sky photography, with an emphasis on shooting landscapes with the moon and Milky Way as backdrops up in Douglas, MI. This was part of the first Saugatuck-Douglas Dark Sky Week 2026 event up in Douglas, MI. Researching and putting together the presentation,…
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Reflections on the summer of 2025 (pt 1)
As summer winds down it’s time for me to reflect on the last several months. I’ve been busy around the house (as always). We lost one of our senior dogs a couple of months ago, which was an emotional blow. I also spent as much time as was practical getting out when and where I…
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Final Friday in Old Town Greenwood
Final Fridays shoppers coming here from my business card. You can get to my online photo gallery from the SmugMug link on the left. (or https://davemccaskill.smugmug.com/Art/Final-Fridays) Thank you!
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The Story of Peanut
(Or… a story of the bitey-ist, most nervous unadoptable senior dog ever) (change of topic for this blog for now) We said goodbye to Peanut yesterday. We gave him the best life we could for just over 8 of the 16-17 years he had on this earth. putting on his best good boy smile He…
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Back to blogging after a brief hiatus
Hey, I’m back. I obviously haven’t been doing a good job of keeping the old blog active, but I’m hoping to change that in the days and weeks ahead. As my last post indicated, Milky Way season is back on us. I made one short trip to Brown County State Park about an hour south…
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Milky Way season is back
It’s Milky Way season again. Which means it’s time to start planning and praying to the clear sky gods for them to do their thing. I’ve gone back to this image from Aug 2023 many times, editing and re-editing it as I learn more about working with these types of images. Each time I get…
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New exhibition
I delivered this bad boy to the Anderson Museum of Art yesterday for display at their 44th Annual IN-Focus exhibition from April 4 – May 24, 2025. This is a gorgeous 30×20″ acrylic print courtesy of Roberts Photo Lab here in Indianapolis. Nothing really does justice to your photos more than printing them out…
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Nature’s Inspirations
Anyone in the Indianapolis area looking to support local artists should head over to Cool Creek Nature Center for their annual Nature’s Inspirations Art Exhibit. It’s running from today (Feb 22) through March 8 and showcases photography, paintings and 3D art with the theme of being inspired by Nature. I’ve got two large prints on…
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Social media in 2025
One of the benefits of starting to disengage myself from social media is rediscovering RSS feeds for news sites I follow (instead of relying on a billionaire funded algorithm) as well as finding blogs that have really good writing. Case in point, this article from a couple of days ago describing the evolution and future…
