exploring nature’s infinite connections
Recently, friend Howard Grill posted in his ongoing YouTube series of "3-minute photo thoughts" a question about doing any "serious photography" while on family vacations. I thought I would launch a post about my own thoughts on this subject because it has a few...
Well, I started to write this post to try to tie in something about photography into the US holiday today, Independence Day. I thought there were some parallels in the paths we take as photographers and those that founded this country took. The writing started to...
There is an interesting dichotomy between the shoreline and the life existing not too far away underneath the water's surface. The shoreline... a rough, textured crusty surface that is for the most part, dead rock. Remnants of animal life that used to exist around...
I imagine for most people, a walk through the forest is one that involves mostly observing trees and other plantlife, and an occasional animal. Imagine just the reverse, where your field of vision is surrounded by animal life, and only an occasional plant or two. ...
This image is from a night dive in Bonaire. Diving at night as you might imagine is quite a different experience than daytime. Not only is your field of vision limited by only the power of your dive light, but many creatures you never see during the day are out...
As much as I cherish photos from Bonaire that did turn out the way I expected, there are some that simply serve as great memories. Recently reading Richard Wong's post on the Pictures you don't take brought to mind this particular experience. except I did take one...
As I mentioned in my previous post, I really only had 1 morning on our diving 'day off' to do some landscape photography around the island. There are a couple difficulties in doing topside plus underwater photography in the same morning. For one, the only SLR I...
In my prior trips to Bonaire, I didn't spend a lot of time at the shorelines doing land photography. I always seemed to be busy diving. I see them as opportunties lost from the past. It was difficult to coordinate being at some of these places during the soft...
Well, I am back now from my trip I mentioned in my previous post of Craving Saltwater. Consider the craving satisfied. While the white in this photo may slightly resemble the snow I came back to in Michigan, I can assure you it is far different in the actual...