New Camera and New Photos

I got my new Canon EOS Rebel XS camera today and took it for a test drive! I added some new photos to the CLOUDS gallery on my website. One sample is below!

Heavy On Wreslting August 15th Gallery

Tonight's Heavy On Wrestling show at the Powerhouse Bar in Proctor, Minnesota, at the Hoghead Festival was great. Some notables included former WCW wrestler/valet Daffney, TNA's Knockout ODB, Arya Daivari, Ann Brookstone of course, and AWA Legend Baron Von Raschke.

Check out my PHOTOS from the show!

They announced their next show will be held at the University of Wisconsin, Superior on November 15th, with the main event being Arik Cannon vs Ben Sailer for the new HoW title. MICK FOLEY will be the special guest referee for that title match, and Terry Funk will be working as 'special enforcer'.

Visit HoW's website

New Photos!!!

I've got new photos up from yesterday, August 2nd.

I was out fishing and since the fish weren't biting, I took pictures of the sunset.. in segments of about a half hour.

Check Them Out!

New Duluth Photo Galleries

Added to Viewthroughmylens.net are three new galleries, specifically Duluth, Minnesota galleries.

The first is some pictures taken along Duluth's Lakewalk.

The second gallery is of the Harbor, as the Edward L. Ryerson ore/taconite hauler came into the Duluth Harbor. Notice the throngs of people who show up when the big boats come in, even on a weekday before 5 pm!

The third gallery is standard Duluth fare, the Aerial Lift Bridge gallery. I would suspect that 80% of the people who've been to Canal Park have taken at least one picture of the 'Lift Bridge.'

New Cloud/Storm Pictures Added

On the CLOUDS page of my website..I added some new pictures from a recent storm. I've never seen clouds come in like that.

Sample/Preview photo:



Click the link above to see the rest.

New Cloquet Photos

New the Cloquet Gallery page of my website, a variety of pictures from around town, as well as a 4th of July Parade gallery! Check back for more always!

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Heavy On Wrestling, Superior Wisconsin

I finally made it to a Heavy On Wrestling show in Superior, Wisconsin! This was their THIRD ever show, featuring Terry Funk, Eugene, Lacey Von Erich, Honky Tonk Man and more! The main event was a triple threat LADDER MATCH that a wrestler named Ben Sailer won to face Arik Cannon for the Heavy On Wrestling Championship at a later date.

Check out my photos from the event!

View Through My Lens Galleries

As I start to build my new Website I will post links to galleries I put up. Right now the following galleries are up:

Canadian Snowbirds in Duluth

Clouds. I enjoy cloud pictures because like snowflakes, none are ever alike and you never know what you'll see when you upload your photos.

Fishing and Fish. I love fishing, and this will probably grow to be the largest section over time.

I'm always taking pictures and bringing my camera along so you never know what might be the next photograph.

New Website UP!

I've created a partner website for my View Through My Lens blog... at http://www.viewthroughmylens.net. Someone grabbed up the .com 'viewthroughmylens' so I am stuck with the .net for now :) That's OK though, I needed a place to put photos and galleries and host for this blog. The website name was registered today and I haven't done any 'work' on it yet but I had to announce it.

The 10 Minute Fishing Trip

I was coming home from Wal-Mart and wanted to check out how an area of the St. Louis River that's been clogged with brush and trees turned out after the rains last week. I figured I couldn't even cast into the area before I got there because everything was pushed up against a culvert since winter.



There was just enough opening to see if maybe a Smallmouth might be hiding under the brush so I decided to cast...

Nope, no Smallmouth Bass were biting...But....



THIS guy was.. I only had about 10 feet of distance to cast to..and this Northern Pike hit as soon as the Rapala X-Rap hit the water, it came out of the water to get it.

This Pike trumps the May 24th Pike easily weighing twice what that one did for pretty much the same length in the 30+ inch range.

That was a huge improvement over 4 hours of shore fishing Saturday without catching anything because of all the recent rain.

No Fish, But A Doe

With the huge amount of rain we had, four PLUS inches... fishing was miserable today, the river was moving which is usually ok, but there was a huge amount of silt and sand that made the river really dirty.

While fishing I heard some noises behind me off in the woods. I turned around and this was behind me.





I was probably 300 feet from the doe and it turned and looked at me as seen in the picture but it never ran, it just kept on it's way, stopping to look around, eat, and keep going. While I didn't catch any fish, this was cool anyway :)

Don't forget, you can click the picture to see it larger.

Random cloud picture

The following is more or less a random cloud picture I took yesterday in between some light rain showers.

Gone Fishing!

Ok, I'm not really gone fishing, since it's now almost 11:30 pm but a couple pictures follow.. first up another Rock Bass photo that was taken a few days ago...then a real nice Smallmouth that I caught and released today.




The final picture of this post is an interesting one.. I've never seen a baby turtle like ya see on Animal Planet .. swimming to wherever it's going.. but today I did.. this thing wasn't any bigger than a 50 cent piece...I'm pretty sure it ended up as fish food being alone in the water, but when I saw it it was alive and swimming.

Three Hours of Fishing, 2 Fish, Definitely Worth it.

I spent 3 hours this afternoon/early-evening fishing... I had no luck until back-tracking to the car .....



We had a LOT of wind from the east today and I decided to cast a Strike King Spinner Bait white skirt, white willow leaf/Colorado blade combination along a bridge/overpass that people ride 4-wheelers on. The 30-inch or so Pike is the biggest one I've caught in probably three years.

I caught a much smaller pike near the car but that one wasn't worth a photograph.




This smallmouth I caught yesterday and quickly snapped the picture before releasing it since it wasn't much size and not the season yet.

Park Point Photo, Taken From Mesaba Avenue

I was coming down the Mesaba Avenue Hill, from Cental Entrance and got a red light, and couldn't pass up this photo op of Park Point, and Downtown Duluth, you see the Holiday Inn in the foreground and the Lift Bridge leading to the long Park Point strip.

Canadian Snowbirds in Duluth

Headed to Duluth to watch the Canadian Snowbirds give a 35 minute airshow, as advertisement for the Duluth Air Show in July. Without a good telephoto lens, I ended up with a few good pictures but someday I'll go the expensive route and get a really good camera capable of extraordinary pictures. For now my 12 Megapixel Kodak Easyshare is perfect for what I usually use it for.

The Canadian Snowbirds aren't nearly as loud as I expected, and incredible maneuverable having only seen the larger jets at the Air Show the one year I attended.







As always, CLICK on the photos to view them in larger size.

When in Duluth, with a camera, a person tends to take pictures of the Aerial Lift Bridge, even though I've taken enough of them in the past, here's 2 more:




One thing I'd never seen before, is a mini 'Statue of Liberty' which is hidden in a courtyard next to the DECC Auditorium. According to the plaque, it was placed there in 1976, the American Bi-Centennial.




On the way home I stopped at the river to fish for a bit....



I caught that small St. Louis River Northern Pike, and a nice Smallmouth Bass, but Bass season doesn't start for a week or two, so they have to be released immediately so no photos of that one.

And finally... the end up the day, the sunset....

Cloquet Water Tower

I haven't done much picture taking but today I got one picture I decided to post.. of the Cloquet city symbol/logo on the water tower:



It's not really an interesting picture or anything but there it is.

NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Championship

Below are a few pictures from after the UMD Bulldogs captured their 4th NCAA Women's Ice Hockey National Championship

First, Wisconsin Badgers take home their second place trophy



The rest of the pictures are of UMD's celebration, in no particular order, a salute to the fans, the mob of players after the game, and UMD's captains mobbed with the first place trophy!







UMD #1 GO DOGS!

It's SPRING (10 days early)

While it's only March 11th, and spring doesn't start until March 21st, I don't care, it's WARM and the snow is melting fast!!



Photo taken at 1:30 pm, and its' STILL 49 degrees 3 hours later!

I'm not a big religious person but I think if there is a God, he must wear NIKE's:



Maybe the Cloud Man (third picture) wears NIKE too.

New Camera

I bought a new camera finally.. a 12 Megapixel Kodak Easyshare Z1275.. I've been playing around with it a little in some free time.. below is the only picture I've really done to share, of the Applebees here.



It's taken from 500-800 feet away maybe.. not positive on the distance, but the camera has 5x optical zoom and I wasn't at that mark yet

Lots of snow

We've got a bunch of snow this year and by the time tonight (sunday the 23rd) ends we'll have about 12 more inches within 2 days. Hopefully I can get out and finally add some new photos to this blog... :) We'll see though, as I've been really busy since November.

Blogs Link Exchange

Check out my new addition, on the right side of the blog... 'Other Cool Bloggers'.. If you want, leave a comment for me on a blog entry I make, if you want your blog added, we can share links and get more blog traffic between us :) Enjoy the entries and check out others blogs!

Box Elder Bugs

The Box Elder Bug seems to produce in the thousands, as in piles of them on the sidewalks much of the summer, I neglected to photograph those piles of young but I should have!

This is my first attempt at using a NEW way to share photos, so please comment if it doesn't work! If you want to share the photo with people you can click on MENU to get details!



I hate these damn bugs, though they dont' cause any problems other than the annoyance of them being there.

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A Few Fishing Pictures

The following are a few St. Louis River pictures from the past couple days. This is one of the best times to fish, as well as take fall pictures. The non fishing picture is an early fall colors picture, of the same area just farther back of a picture I took last fall.







This Northern Pike is the first Northern I've caught in a while, with the shallow water I'm not sure where they've all gone hiding to ;)

Finally new pictures! Fishing and Squirrel

It's been a while again since there have been any new pictures posted, but I've finally got some :) The first two are Smallmouth Bass caught today, and the other 3 are this freaky squirrel that's been screaming for a few days.. almost like it's in heat.

Short post

This is just a short post with 2 pictures of some clouds the other night before dark. This looked like it was going to open up and pour on us but it really didn't rain at all.




About 3 am we got a lot of lightning and thunder but still it really didn't do much in the way of rain.

Boredom on a Sunday afternoon

To prove just how really boring it's been this summer, I actually went out and took pictures of the bunny that's been coming into the yard just about every day.





This bunny actually got into the vegetable garden one day and when I went to let it out it was trying to run from me and kept bouncing off the fencing like a trampoline.