Some highlights from my afternoon at the entertaining Maryland State Fair. Rides, horse races, livestock and produce!

A sampling of some of the birds I’ve taken pictures of this summer (so far) at Roland Park. They are 1st to last: a singing Carolina wren followed by a Carolina chickadee, then 2 cedar waxwings, a broad-winged hawk, the striking looking belted kingfisher, and a northern cardinal. Followed by a red-winged blackbird in flight,...

Rallies were held all over the world in protest against the policies of the Trump administration. This one in Baltimore took place in front of City Hall.

These three 19th century churches in the Bolton Hill neighborhood of Baltimore – Brown Memorial Presbyterian, Memorial Episcopal, and Corpus Christi Catholic – are all on Lafayette St. a few blocks apart from each other on the corners of Park Ave, Bolton St., and Mount Royal Ave. Because of the dimensions of these photos its...

I took the opportunity during this year’s Baltimore Marathon to experiment with motion-blur photography.

I captured most of these images of Buddhist temples on O’ahu in 2012-2013, and recently decided to revisit (and reprocess/edit) them to organize in a single post. Most are Japanese Shinto or Hongwanji but the the multi-color mostly blue one is Korean, and the red/yellow/green one is Chinese.

Mallards ducks in and around the duck pond at the lovely Patterson Park in northeast Baltimore.

After a 3 hour rain delay the game finally started. I had the telephoto lens on my camera to get these shots from way up in the 300 level.

Fun times at this past Saturday’s Kinetic Sculpture Race. They went up Aliceanna Street to Canton Waterfront Park, then up to the mud obstacle at Patterson Park, and finally down Lombard Street to get back to the American Visionary Art Museum.

This was the 52nd year for the Washington Monument Lighting up at Mt. Vernon Place in Baltimore. In Addition to the lighting an intense fireworks there were food vendors and music performances.