It's Back!!!

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Yea - I picked up Mr. Camera yesterday and I think I will just keep it in it's little plastic wrapper so it does not get dusty.

So what is the first thing I take a photo of? MY WORK PLACE!! What? am I NUTS???

I actually work in the bowels of this magnificent structure. (oddly the word bowels is in this blog twice).

I was asked yesterday if I could take photos of the inside of the building as it is very art deco-ish on the inside. People seem to like what I did with the Wisconsin Capital (or is it Capitol?)



Then - JUST to piss off the photo purest! I tweaked up this foggy photo into an old postcard look.

I have a photo shoot coming up where I have to take images of a 1955 Porsche Speedster with, get this - 64 miles on it! It's been in storage for 50 years and is in "like new" condition!

And then I took this photo but could not make it into anything special, but since I spent some time TRYING to do something here it is.


What you don't see are like 4 homeless people staring at me and I think one was sleeping in the flowers a little while before I got there (other side). I suppose I could be one of those photographers that take photos of homeless people but I respect them and their homelessness.

And just so you know, that is not a homeless guy coming over the flowers at me. It's a big iron dude from the Battle of Chickamauga. His name is Hans Christian Heg a Norwegian immigrant. He as in the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment in the American Civil War. The 15th was also called the Scandinavian Regiment.

On September 19, 1863, Colonel Heg led his brigade at the Battle of Chickamauga and "was shot through the bowels and died the next day." He was the highest-ranked Wisconsin soldier killed in combat during the Civil War.

There is a replica of this statue in the community of Lierbyen in Lier, Norway which was a gift from the Norwegian-Americans to the people of Norway.

An interesting thing, Chickamauga is that it is an America Indian name which translated means "river of death" but not from the Civil War. It's a location that the Cherokee contracted smallpox.

The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19–20, 1863, was the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. The battle was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.

In the two days of fighting the Union lost 16,170 and the Confederates lost 18,454 men. Only at Gettysburg were there more casulities in the war (50,000ish in 3 days).

Something you might not know is that the Iron Brigade which consisted of the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiments along with the 19th Indiana and the 24th Michigan basically SAVED the Union army at Gettysburg. THEY were the big heros. Wisconsin solders saved the Union Army from defeat in the Civil War.

The Iron Brigade was designated "1st Brigade, 1st Division, I Corps". They were the ones that "held at all costs" and suffered 70% casualties.

If you ever want to see a very very good movie that explains what Gettysburg was rent the movie called Gettysburg. I know a few reenactors that were in the movie and I feel this should be MUST see for all Americans. Both DJ and I have watched it a few times and it is fascinating and a very history lesson.