It’s nice that St. Louis has so many public events and festivals. The bad news is that they have gotten so crowded as to be almost unbeara...

Forest Park is the largest urban park in the United States. There are a few that are bigger within a city's official border (Phoeni...

Oops, didn't get the job done yesterday. The usual day at work, then spent the evening at the Washington University psychology depa...

Apparently with some difficulty, depending on the wind and the proximity of your tutu-wearing neighbors.                   ...

I shoot the Great Forest Park Balloon Race almost every year. It is usually very crowded and full of color. We'll get to that but s...

Yes, she is. A brief interruption in the Japanese Festival series. The annual Great Forest Park Balloon Race was held Saturday aftern...

The opposite approach from yesterdays post. The balloons are a riot of color. I think they lose some of their impact when six or eight ...

That's what these images make me think of, anyway. You may prefer the color versions. Click the Flickr link in the right sidebar....

Ben Bernanke was not consulted in these decisions. The hare balloon lifted off 45 minutes behind schedule at the Great Forest Park Bal...

A rare day without a post yesterday. I really wanted to shoot the balloon glow in Forest Park but I got out of work way too late. Went...

. This balloon is at the Great Forest Park Balloon Race year after year. Charles Lindbergh flew The Spirit of St. Louis from near Ne...

. With a subject like the balloon race, my solution was to screw on a telephoto, get in close and then pump some steroids into the pic...

. The Great Forest Park Balloon Race is not a race in the traditional sense with victory going to the fastest. All the balloons ride ...

. We are moving toward the balloon race itself. The warm-up was a team of skydivers. I don't know if these things are properly cal...

. A few more from Friday night's balloon glow in Forest Park. It's a good thing I'm tall so I could shoot over the heads ...

. Here's the local entry in the Great Balloon Race. I'm told that Mayor Francis Slay was riding in it. I wish all the local governme...

. Not everything at The Great Forest Park Balloon Race was light and fanciful. This makes me think of a Suprematist construction. There is...

. A little final color from the Great Forest Park Balloon race, to which we now must bid farewell. If I posted any more of this my visitors...

. You have no idea how easily a tall, clumsy, middle-aged photographer could fall over backward taking a shot like this. I didn't, actu...

. Americans know the Energizer Bunny - it keeps going and going and going. This one is going nowhere in a hurry. Energizer's corporate...