exploring nature’s infinite connections
This is an image from the start of my trip where a friend recommended staying at the Backwoods Lodge in Cantwell, AK as a good central spot to access Denali from, with better rates than staying just outside the park. We were told that the film "Into the Wild" was...
Hey folks. Back home now after a couple of days of recouping from a bad cold I caught while on the boat in Katmai. Future posts will elaborate more on the trip that was basically broken down into three segments - Denali, Kodiak/Katmai, and a short day...
Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) cones These pine cones are from two dawn redwood trees I have in my yard - where I also have a white pine as well. The unique shape of these cones made for a great pattern study. I actually fumbled around for a...
If there is one word that could describe the woods near where I live - I think that word would be 'complexity.' A word that can cause a lot of problems for landscape photography. These woods are filled with knarly branches, thorny vines, logs and twigs all over the...
Cayman Brac Revisited Insomnia sucks, but I may as well make the best of it. I took one of my favorite landscapes for a little reprocessing trip to correct some horizon distortion, and also give it a go with some luminosity masking. It looks so much better now that I...
My first outing for 2009 to photograph was a quick jump into my local woods to look for ice patterns. These woods are quite good for ice because nearly all of it floods quite regularly from the Clinton River. Given crazy Michigan weather, it dumped a good 12 inches of...
So, what about 2008? I wrote previously about some of my favorite images of 2007 here if you want to check that out. The fact is, 2008 was actually a pretty slow image production year for me, yet I embarked on quite a few new pursuits of subject...