Swimming with the fishes.....

At least it would be tough for this guy to get cement fins ;)

Northern lights....again

So another year of snake research and pictures of northern lights. I love looking as the lights dance in the sky; sometimes rhythmic but always interesting. The clouds act like parents to these rebelious infants, covering their naked children just as company came by for a visit.

Dance child dance!

Where's waldo?

Can you find waldo? I dare you to try......


Dan

Two lane traffic

"Life is a highway..... I wanna ride it all day long....."

It just reminded me of the song when I took this image...

Enjoy,
Dan

Are you talking to me...

because I can't talk back.


Enjoy,
Dan

Colors....Colors.....

So it not often you see a few colors in the lights. It did during this shot.... It got so bright, both the lights and the sky.... here are the results.....

Dan

Magic marker in the sky....

or "The Highlighter in the Sky" the color is called "Aurora Green"

Dan

Lilly...

This Water Lilly was just crying out to be photographed but most just walked on by...

Not me!

I hope you enjoy "Lilly,"

Dan

....."SHAFT"..... Shut your mouth....... "SHAFT!"

A shaft of aurora poking through the clouds......"SHAFT!"


Enjoy,....."SHAFT!"

Dan

A thing of eerie beauty...

So whether you look at this as being strange or just eerie, I believe these artisans which make such monuments work hard at making beauty. I also believe they do not receive their rightful acknowledgements that they deserve. So here is an image I captured and am still intrigued by it.

Hope you enjoy,
Dan

A Sea of Snakes....

I took this in Canada while working in some snake dens. To think people are scared of these guys, I handled thousands in the past couple of years and haven't been bitten once. Sometimes holding a couple hundred in may hands at once.

Oh, and they're called "garter snakes," there is no such thing as "garden snakes." Thats just where they may live; eating grubs, worms, frogs and tadpods.

Daniel

Look up, but watch out for the dog poop!

So I work at the University of Chicago and at times I think I'm the only one who looks up! This place has amazing Gargoyles. Come visit the campus if you can or visit the website I dedicated to them.

*Update*
I recently had to pull some pictures down as I had alot of photo theft with people claiming they took my images. Yet some still had my watermark on them and I had person still claim it was their image they posted on their website.... People! The best one was a guy who claimed the image was his and refused to take the image down or give me photo credit; so I changed that photograph's link to an image (since he was hot-linking my picture) of "You have stolen this image from Daniel D. Baleckaitis" and weeks later he sent me a nasty email.

I don't mind people using my images on their site as long as they cite me as the photographer to each image they use and have a link to my site. However, I will not tolerate people using my images to sell (or in selling products) unless they worked out a deal with me. I have spent years refining my photography techniques and have come to this point through the experiences of several thefts in which people were trying to sell my images through photo vendors so I now register my images with the US copyright office. Leaving the court option open....

I enjoy showing my work and appreciate the kind words people use about my images so removing all my images from the web really isn't an option. Just looking for some respect...

Sorry for the rant--

Come visit: http://home.uchicago.edu/~danielb1/