Category: Photography
Norbert Schemansky in Moscow (1963)
History in Color Series: One of the Olympic weightlifting greatest Norbert Schemansky of Team U.S.A. is competing at the 1963 Prize of Moscow International. The original photo by Jacob Gimmelstein. This photo has an...
Living Upside Down
For most of us, it’s disturbing. For a little fella like the nuthatch on the photo, it’s quite all right… “It’s fun!” hollered Mr. Nuthatch hanging upside down on the tree trunk in the...
Grippaldi (USA)
History in Color: Phil Grippaldi (b. 1946) was one of the most talented and popular U.S. Olympic weightlifters in the 1970s. He competed in the 90kg weight class and had an impressive look of...
Mr. Cardinal
We just talked about how pretty Ms. Cardinal is today. Apparently, Mr. Cardinal overheard it and showed up shortly after. Northern Cardinals usually travel around in couples. It always has a nice touch in...
Red-winged Blackbird
These guys are consistent. The come to us early in the spring and leave us early in the fall. Tic Tac Toe… Works like a clock. They look and act like a military platoon....
Ms. Cardinal
It’s very warm today. Ms. Cardinal is having fun in the grass in the Belle Isle Marshes. “Isn’t she pretty?” I always say it loud. She likes to hear that. She is super pretty...
Today in the Backyard: Goldfinch
I haven’t seen American goldfinches here for over a year. I thought of thousands of reasons for this – from global warming to the food we were giving them. And now, they came back…...
Kosarev
History in Color: Mitrofan Kosarev (1911-2005) was the best Soviet bantamweight in the 1930s and 1940s. Nobody could beat Kosarev when he competed. He won the USSR championship in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1944,...
Unsung Heroes: Vasily Pegov
Thank you so much for the colorized photos of so many Soviet lifters. Many of these were before I got interested in lifting but many were also lifters who never got to compete outside...