exploring nature’s infinite connections
Rock pillars As Paul Burwell writes about in a recent post on things annoying to a wildlife photographer - weddings can be much scarier to photograph than some of the largest predators around. I happen to agree with him. 🙂 But wedding and portrait photographers...
I came across an interesting discovery yesterday. I have been wanting to make a streamlined method for creating JPEGs for submissions for stock using Lightroom. Normally I would open the image (either RAW or a PSD edited file) in Photoshop, convert to 8 bit, Adobe...
I am always a bit torn on visiting this particular spot on Lake St. Clair - the lake formed between two of our Great Lakes - Huron and Erie. I love the ice that piles up here, but it is blastin' cold every time I go out there in the winter. Yeah, yeah I know -...
Mainstreet at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital in Southeast Michigan sets new benchmarks for hospital design This weekend marks the first public open house of a new hospital in the Detroit area, Henry Ford West Bloomfield. I must say this is no ordinary...
Well, we have another storm front headed our way, should hit us later today I think. There was a glimmer of hope we were on the tail end. Everywhere I go it seems people are complaining about the long, hard winter this year - yearning for it to be...
I have a bookshelf full of field guides, from birds to mushrooms to wetlands. Quite often I find myself plunging into them after having been in the field because I have photographed a bird or flower that I didn't know up front exactly what it is. Although I am...
As photographers, one might naturally assume that our eyes provide the necessary input to our brains in order to compose our images. But what if that input originated from somewhere else? Perhaps it seems like a odd concept to think about. How else would we...
I recently got to the bottom of a display issue on my blog. Apparently it has been happening for awhile, and I was never to reproduce it despite checking it on several PCs and also via my Mac - all the machines I checked it on looked fine. Occasionally I have...
Recently I converted my Epson 4800 from using Matte Black ink to Photo Black ink for the sole purpose of being able to try some of the new Baryta papers on the market. OK, not so new by now - they have been emerging the past couple of years. But I was sitting on...