2009 December 13 | Kelly Lake, Oconto County Wisconsin

“Fence Posts”

The following text and photo from Kelly Lake’s Vicki Reed. Vicki and her husband, William (Buz), have a cottage near us in the cove. She logs on often, and intends to share their love of Kelly Lake; applying her artistic photography prowess. I hope she shares some of her ventures into journalism and photography with you, as she has with us. Vicki and Buz have an impressionable and enviable journalistic background ! Welcome aboard, Vicki and Buz, to kellylake.net! Roger

Vicki writes:

“My husband, Buz and I have owned our cottage on Kelly Lake for 15 years. We both grew up in a small town in Maine that was located on a lake. Our early memories are filled with wonderful experiences centered around that spring fed lake in the heart of the Pine Tree State. When we moved to Cedarburg, Wisconsin in 1982 via Indiana and Illinois we were expecting our first child. We hoped to buy a cottage “Up North” to make memories with our children. It was not until after we purchased our place on Kelly Lake that we learned that it was located on the 49th parallel- the same exact parallel as our hometown in Maine!

I am a former daily news photographer who now specializes in limited edition B&W and hand colored prints. As photography moves toward more technology I seem to go in the opposite direction out of protest! Though I own and enjoy digital cameras, my equipment of choice includes vintage cameras as well as plastic toy cameras and simple pinholes. I develop and print the film in my wet darkroom. Over the years I have enjoyed discovering Oconto County and nearby areas through the lens of my camera and am happy to share some of the images through this website. In recent years I have also enjoyed photographing area lakes in my kayak.

Thanks, Roger for maintaining this site and giving the greater public a glimpse of our lovely part of the Midwest.”

~Vicki Reed

www.vickireed.com

Fence Posts was taken in Maple Valley with my Holga camera, a Chinese plastic toy camera that is subject to light leaks, soft focus and vignetting the edges of the image. I am never quite sure what I will capture with the thing and that is what gives it its charm!