exploring nature’s infinite connections
With our first snow arriving yesterday, I am sensing my subjects for this project will soon be retreating into the soil for the season (with or without the help of our electric mulching mower.) 🙂 I have basically completed them over 4 different sessions outside,...
Bird photography is something I haven't spent a lot of time on in the past few years. However, I have a lot of bird photographs in my archives. Many of them based on 35mm film, and more recently I have been redeveloping some shot on my first DSLR, a Nikon D2H. I took...
The waning days of summer are finally upon us here in the Northern Hemisphere and one I am sure many of us don't care to repeat again. Michigan weather has a way of reminding us not to start counting those changing leaves just yet. Cherish those occasional cool,...
This month's Leaf Pile is going to be short and quick. July 2020 certainly wasn't one of my better months. Photography Window Gazing The only photographs I made in July 2020 were on my phone. Of those, I will probably only keep one that will make it to my site. This...
Last December, I made a post about how I often use my iPhone as a sketchpad for ideas, often sharing them to Instagram. I usually encounter two main issues when developing something on my phone. The first being many apps on my phone don't have corresponding desktop...
The title of this post, for those not familiar, is from the Talking Head's 1981 song "Once in a Lifetime." A song NPR listed as one of the 100 most important musical works of the 20th Century. A song some interpret as a commentary upon the excesses and absurdity of...
Life here sheltering-in-place during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 is a bit haphazard. I seem to float around between wanting to get a to-do list done, wanting to peek in on the news (usually a downer), or wandering through my photo archives. I have an overwhelming...
Over the years, I have tested and used A LOT of HDR software, always preferring the more natural looking scenes with a touch of drama for visual excitement. Because it became so overused, a lot of people began to hate on anything to do with the name "HDR" in it...
I don't write about gear much here, but perhaps this is a special occasion. This week marks ten years since I received my first Mac computer, a Mac Pro Desktop, which is the very same computer I am typing this on. It also remains my primary workstation for all my...