March Photo of the Month: Fish Tug Entering Kenosha Harbor, Lake Michigan, Kenosha WI

This month’s photo comes from my first weekend visiting Kenosha back on the 3rd of March, 2008. This interesting  boat is a fish tug, a boat that’s native to the Great Lakes. This fish tug was first created for the commercial fishing industry in the 1930’s. It was designed to stand up to the challenging conditions found on the Great Lakes year around. There are three fish tugs currently in Kenosha Harbor, this was my first encounter with one.

I was out photographing the ice and slush of the harbor when , to my surprise, I heard a boat horn from the lake. I thought I was hearing things.  No way was there a boat out there amongst all that ice. Then I saw it. I quickly changed lenses and got four shots fired off before  the boat was by me. This image is my favorite of the four.

At the time I had no idea what this boat was, but after some searching online I was able to learn more about the fish tugs and their importance to the fishing history of the Great Lakes. If you’d like to know more about fish tugs, here’s a great source: Fish Tugs of the Greatest Lake

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Here’s another picture from Pets last Monday. I decided to do this one as a black and white because I thought it gave the image a more mystical look. The black and white also made the bridge stand out more.

Petrifying Spring Park, Kenosha WI

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Wind Point Lighthouse, lake Michigan, Racine WI

This image was made by taking 3 horizontal pictures and stitching them together vertically. This allowed me to shoot the lighthouse at closer range and create a perspective that looks much more natural that what you get with a wide angle lens. To read more about this image, see my post on SBDigitalArts: The Art of Visualization

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Before Lynne and I drove around town shooting the video from the last post, we spent a couple hours at Petrifying Springs Park shooting pictures. Though we only got two inches of snow, it stuck perfectly to the trees and created a beautiful winter wonderland for us to play in. Here’s a few pictures from the park, I’ll post more in the next few days.

If the last picture looks familiar, it’s because I took the same shot with fall colors in October. I’m planning on a spring and summer shot also.

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