Doug Griffin Photography

11/16/2024

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11/16/2024

Maid of the Mist.

This past year an author contacted me to include this pic in a book being published. "Pennsylvania Fireside Tales, Vol. 4" by Jeffery R. Frazier. I don't have a copy of the book yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing it in print.

11/23/2023

Milwaukee City Hall
Walking to the car after a concert at the Pabst Theatre. Taken with a Samsung S8 (the best camera is the one you have with you).

11/07/2023

"Building a New Chicago" Under Lake Shore Drive at Grand Avenue, Chicago, 2016. www.douggriffinphotography.com

11/02/2023

Atlantic Sunrise Over Surf
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10/31/2023

Cana Island Sunrise
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10/27/2023

Morning on the Wisconsin River. Available for purchase at www.douggriffinphotography.com

05/20/2023

I've been neglecting this page for a while. Watch this space.

Pollen Gathering We went for a walk yesterday at the Janesville Rotary Botanical Gardens. It was a cloudy day and a little cool for August, but it meant less crowds. Very peaceful and beautiful.

11/22/2022

The sun was shining just right in my office yesterday.

11/10/2022

10/22/2020

Paradise Springs
It was the 1960's when I first came to Paradise Springs. As a child, every summer weekend, dad would pack up the VW camper (in the '60's it was a '62 pop-top, in the 70's it was a 71 pop-top) and head out camping in Wisconsin at the Kettle Moraine State Park, Southern Unit. When we needed groceries, we went to the IGA in Palmyra. Sometimes on the weekend we would go to Sasso's Tavern (Kline's Hotel) and dad would pick up a six-pack and we'd stay for dad and mom to have a couple drinks before heading back to the campsite. When we needed water sometimes we'd head up to the spring house at Paradise Springs and we would fill the water jugs. Dad would tell about how Al Capone and the other gangsters would head up to the hotel from Chicago sometimes. When I first went there as a kid, the sidwalks were still there and so was the falling down hotel, in it's haunted glory. The spring house still had it's roof in those days too. Now, the hotel is gone and all that is left is some cement where the sidewalk used to be in front and part of a foundation. The roof is gone from the spring house too, but the water still runs fresh and cold.
I came back with my wife and children almost twenty years ago. The hotel was gone and so was the roof on the spring house. The sidewalks and paths had been paved by the DNR, but the water still flows from the spring. A few years ago, the small dam that kept the pond filled broke and the pond and trout disappeared. It was very sad and we didn't know if it would be restored as the DNR didn't step up to fix it. Funds were raised and the dam restored, and now the pond is back to it's former glory. Always a nice, pleasant, cool walk in the summer and a colorful show in the fall, as you can see here.