New Growth in Fire Burn         ©2008 Alan Schrank

In 1988 fire burned large areas of Yellowstone National Park. This image taken 20 years later shows both the remains and the recovery of this fire.

Yellowstone Aspens #1              ©2008 Alan Schrank

Along the road that runs from Mammoth to Towers is a one lane gravel side-road called "Blacktail Plateau Drive". It's takes you south and above the main road.  There are great fields up there with isolated aspen clusters. I spent a few hours hiking there. This image goes into my "Trees" project.

Atlanta Snow 2010 #8                                            ©2010 Alan Schrank

Street lights and the snow give this suburbanscape an emotional warmth.

Atlanta Snow #7                                                         ©2010 Alan Schrank

Once I left the expressway and was driving down Beaver Ruin Road, I turned into an industrial park with lots of trees and street lights.

Atlanta Snow #6                                                                         ©Alan Schrank

As I was leaving my meeting down at the Tula Art center, I saw this tree in the parking lot.

Atlanta Snow 2010 #5                                                 ©2010 Alan Schrank

Once I made it out to 400, the speed of traffic picked up.

Atlanta Snow 2010 #4                                                      ©2010 Alan Schrank

Heading down the hill on Highway 9 just before the river.

Atlanta Snow #3                                                          ©2010 Alan Schrank

After work I needed to go into Atlanta.  Driving in the snow was o.k., but a little slow.

Atlanta Snow 2010 #2                                                   ©2010 Alan Schrank

The snow was light, fluffy; there was no wind, so it piled on the smallest surfaces.

The snow started in the early afternoon on Friday. After a few hours I walked outside with my camera for a few minutes.  Looks like an inch so-far.

Bay 22                                                                                                ©2004 Alan Schrank

The signs were scattered, numbering the bays.  I imagine, "Drive this truck over to Bay 22, it needs to have its carburetor adjusted.

Bay 37                                                                                                   ©2004 Alan Schrank

The numbered bays of the Long Grass Prairie are a mystery, what occupied these bays? I'm guessing tanks, or more likely trucks.

Bay 18                                                                        ©2004 Alan Schrank

While driving from Wisconsin to Georgia I saw the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie marker on my map. I detoured having never seen a tallgrass prairie.  Formed from the former Joliet Arsenal, there was more there than grass.  I hiked through an area of partially deconstructed buildings. I'm guessing the one this was taken in was used for storing vehicles.

Ostrich                                                                            ©2004 Alan Schrank

I'm not what you would normally call a "Birder", but sometimes the opportunity is too good to pass up! While visiting my Mom in northern Wisconsin. We decided to take a trip over to Door county on the finger of land that stick out into Lake Michigan.  While driving around we found an Ostrich farm, this fellah didn't seem too happy to see us.

Rebar #1                                                                      ©2007 Alan Schrank

There was a construction staging site at the Sugarloaf parkway exit of highway 316 north of Atlanta. I'd driven by it many times always thinking "I should stop there and look around", but until this day I never had.  There was a fenced area I couldn't get to, but in the open was some machinery and stacks and piles of rebar.  This image is from one of the piles (not the stacks).