Notes from the Woods

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Rapid forest growth

Rapid forest growth

Sometimes when I am in some very familiar places, some crazy things pop into my head.  I try to see in ways I haven't seen before.  Sometimes that comes along with creating a bit of fantasy and playing around. For this image, I imagined being in some type of time warp...

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Turkey ambush, lilypads, and landfills

Turkey ambush, lilypads, and landfills

I imagine a lot of photographers were out this weekend taking advantage of the start of Fall.  I was no exception.  I was out before sunrise both mornings for this past weekend's start to this great season.   Colors have yet to get started around here in any...

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Beach Rocks

Beach Rocks

I was able to do a little exploring this morning to some areas I had never been to before.   It was simply a matter of parking my car and deciding to head off to the east instead of the west.   The major river near here is called the Clinton River - which is pretty...

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60 Second Exposure

60 Second Exposure

Black & White Photography BW142 Oct 2012 index Back in June, Tracy Hallett from Black & White Photography magazine reached out asking me to be interviewed for her regular column called "60 Second Exposure."  It seemed like quite a coincidence because shortly...

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Michigan’s Thumb

Michigan’s Thumb

Yesterday my wife and I took the day off for a casual drive up Michigan's thumb area with our Alaskan Malamute, Willow.  A drive up M25 takes you through numerous little towns along the coast of Lake Huron typically starting in Port Huron, with Port Austin being at...

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Turbulent seas

Turbulent seas

It is no surprise I have a love for water and shorelines, and fortunately around the Great Lakes, we have an abundance of them in great variety.   This, combined with a love for diving, I suppose I get a pretty healthy dose of being around water.   However, it is...

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Creative breaks

Creative breaks

Shooting has been quite slow for me this summer, so again I find myself lacking words, and new images to share here.   I don't know why I feel compelled to only sharing or writing about something new because I have so many images sitting on my hard drive that haven't...

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Accumulations of self

Accumulations of self

As I was processing this image this morning, I couldn't help but think about all of the little decisions that went into why it looks the way it does.  The tone, the composition, the angle, the use of elements, the subject matter, the processing, the lighting, the...

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Washed ashore

Washed ashore

Warning: Unfiltered, unorganized thoughts shall follow.... I am pretty surprised that I don't live closer to the ocean.  For as much time as I could spend there, I am probably suited to live in a sea shell.  Then again, how would one keep the inside of a sea shell...

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