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A Great year for Monarchs in Michigan! This year is being reported as being a great year for Monarch Butterflies. That's welcome news! Overall, however, their populations are still very much on the decline, down 80% over the past 20 years. Historically...
Yes, I am still here. It seems my hiatus from making updates to my notes here went on much longer than intended. Some of it due to writer's block, some due to photographer's block, some due to everyday life and its changes and...
One of the characteristics I like about photographing here on Lake St. Clair is that the location lends itself to simplicity of the winter landscape. Many people who see these photographs comment that it looks like some far away place, like in the Arctic. ...
Today marks the birthday of Michigan, where 176 years ago, Andrew Jackson signed the state into the Union. As a native Michigander, I wonder about how often people think about the unique features of this place. I suppose a birthday is as good as time as any to...
This image is from my "sand dune" fall trip this year, only instead of Silver Lake dunes where most of my shared images have been from, this is from the more popular and well known Sleeping Bear Dunes. I am just now getting around to processing the shots I intended...
Normally when I am showing photos from various places around the state, and I come to images from a unique spot, say like Pictured Rocks, I often get statements of "This is Michigan?" from people who have lived here their entire lives. For some place like Pictured...
I just returned from a short 4 day trip out to Michigan's west coast with a couple of primary goals in mind. The first was to visit the Silver Lake sand dunes, which after 44 years in Michigan, you would think I had been there already. As a matter of...
There are a lot of very large beech trees in the woods behind my home that I have photographed quite often. I have always been drawn into the characteristic white branches of the older trees. Like gray hair, I see it as a sign of wisdom, life...
This weekend my wife, our malamute Willow and I stayed with some friends at a cabin we rented near Traverse City, Michigan. It is a truly beautiful area. It wasn't primarily a photography trip, but more about taking in some of the remaining fall color there, some...