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Isolated Sycamore with ICM

Isolated Sycamore with ICM

NOAA sky cover forecast - socked in gray! I was anxious last night because I wanted to get up early today and head up to Lake Huron to hopefully do some long shutter speed blurs at the shoreline during twilight.   However, the weather forecast didn't look like it...

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This is not Ice

This is not Ice

    This is not ice, but an assembly of order and chaos. This is not ice, but a depiction of environment. This is not ice, but where water fractals meet. This is not ice, but a bubble fortress surrounded by a shard army. This is not ice, but the decorated...

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Nature needs a housekeeper

Nature needs a housekeeper

The woods behind my house are quite chaotic.  There are all sorts of vines, twigs, fallen limbs, and probably the center of the world's collection on thorny plants.   I have often wondered why I don't see the deer with a thousand scratches on their sides.   They...

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Beech trees

Beech trees

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...

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Listening to complexity

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...

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Bloodroot pictures

Last year, I completely missed the bloom of bloodroot   While walking my dog this morning, I noticed it was already springing up on the side of "Wildflower Ridge."  This ridge is a small section of Clinton River Park in Sterling Heights that has an abundance of spring...

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