exploring nature’s infinite connections
"Hmm, this image reminds me of a forest fire." is what I was thinking when processing one of my few fall color images from this year. I photographed this scene while driving around one morning during our brief getaway to northwest Michigan. I was really looking for...
I have written a couple times in the past few months about feeling stuck in a rut. Even though I had been out photographing quite a few times, I was returning with work that really didn't excite me very much. I was even going to some new places for inspiration....
Sometimes when I am in some very familiar places, some crazy things pop into my head. I try to see in ways I haven't seen before. Sometimes that comes along with creating a bit of fantasy and playing around. For this image, I imagined being in some type of time warp...
I imagine a lot of photographers were out this weekend taking advantage of the start of Fall. I was no exception. I was out before sunrise both mornings for this past weekend's start to this great season. Colors have yet to get started around here in any...
I was able to do a little exploring this morning to some areas I had never been to before. It was simply a matter of parking my car and deciding to head off to the east instead of the west. The major river near here is called the Clinton River - which is pretty...
Yesterday my wife and I took the day off for a casual drive up Michigan's thumb area with our Alaskan Malamute, Willow. A drive up M25 takes you through numerous little towns along the coast of Lake Huron typically starting in Port Huron, with Port Austin being at...
It is no surprise I have a love for water and shorelines, and fortunately around the Great Lakes, we have an abundance of them in great variety. This, combined with a love for diving, I suppose I get a pretty healthy dose of being around water. However, it is...
Shooting has been quite slow for me this summer, so again I find myself lacking words, and new images to share here. I don't know why I feel compelled to only sharing or writing about something new because I have so many images sitting on my hard drive that haven't...
As I was processing this image this morning, I couldn't help but think about all of the little decisions that went into why it looks the way it does. The tone, the composition, the angle, the use of elements, the subject matter, the processing, the lighting, the...