exploring nature’s infinite connections
Blue ice is in the headlines of various news stories about Great Lakes winters over the past 5 years or so. While it is often referred to as "rare," I haven't found any substantiating studies explaining why that is other than articles trying to gain attention in...
Yesterday was the first day I made any new exposures since November 20. We had a nice sticky snowfall overnight, so the woods behind us were quite beautiful. The kind of snow where every branch of every tree is coated in white and should make for some nice winter...
A side effect of being a bit distracted lately is that I completely did not register that it was the first day of Autumn (for us Northern Hemispherites) today. It took the mention of the Autumn Equinox in an email for it to spark an "oh yeah..." moment in my head. So...
It's hard to believe I am still finding photos from my old photo gallery that I haven't moved over to my new one. Heck, I started this effort more than 2 years ago. The fact is, the old gallery has become somewhat of a "to-do" list on photographs I want to update and...
Solitude, a bit of a cold nip in the air, and a place where I thought a troll might be hiding in an animal's den. Despite my visit here being some time ago, I remember the feelings in coming upon this scene. It looked like some mystical place out of Lord of the Rings...
I find that when I am out photographing, there are certain things that tend to catch my eye. Ice globules or ice globs are one of them. I haven't had much success in photographing them though. They may catch my eye, but they always seem just out of reach. Ice Globules...
I think photographers are perhaps the only ones that might get a little excited when the forecast calls for an ice storm. I know I do, as long as I can avoid the normal anxieties that people have in these types of winter conditions with fears of lost...
Early Exposure Riiiiinggggg. "Hello Mark - I think we are all set for tomorrow - the winds look good" That's a phone call I remember getting from Scott of the Westwind Balloon Company back in October of 1998. It's hard to believe that was 20 years...
As I take a break from my "imagination-run-wild" writing about dune dragons, I'll bring the topic more to the present with some of my first photographs for 2018. I've photographed winter on Lake St. Clair for the past 13 years or so. I keep going back because it...