exploring nature’s infinite connections
Botany is not one of my strong suits. Perhaps the strongest memory I have of recognizing that is from a hike some years back during a training class on vernal pools. While hiking to one specific pool, one of the class instructors, Ms. Phyllis Higman, a Senior...
Spring seems like such a fleeting season here in Michigan. We strongly yearn for milder temps after what seems like an eternity of Winter but are not quite ready for the humidity and heat of Summer. We want to bask for a bit in the fresh energy around us. Though...
Well, whaddayaknow, Spring will be coming to Michigan after all. After hitting the record snowfall mark in Detroit just last week, there were doubts. Spring energy is certainly in the air now, and wildflowers are reaching up with some pent-up energy. Snow be...
This patch of lupine that I photographed recently had me thinking about isolated spots for photographing specific things. There may be a huge forest, woodland, field, prairie, or riverside that goes on for miles, but for very small sections of these places,...
I have been finding the fringe edges of a plant's life interesting to photograph to break away somewhat from my typical spring flower photography. I think there are interesting elements to be seen other than just when the plant or flower is at its peak blooming...
I spent the morning at this location yesterday where there is an abundance of wildflowers growing along a roadside. I have photographed here before for the past several years. It is always a question that comes up I open my pack - "what lens am I going to use?"...
Finally spring wildflowers are kicking into gear around here. Yesterday I ventured out with an idea in my head of doing something a bit different this year. It seems as if I go through this every year, wanting to create something a bit different than last season on...
Just an image for this post, not much else. This is a rendering of an image I made not long ago where I wanted to add further simplicity to a very cluttered scene. The end result - Indian Paintbrush looking rather ... painterly.
"What would the world be, once bereft, of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left; wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet." - Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889 I have always found certain words of human language and how they are...