exploring nature’s infinite connections
One year ago, I wrote about a bit of a rabbit hole I stepped into regarding the name of a local city-owned nature preserve and confusion over some naming on the maps of a couple of streams that run through or around the Plum Brook Nature Preserve (aka. Sterling...
As I have been accumulating photographs of these strange little beings in my yard, I have been thinking about a good way to group them together. So here is a brief slideshow of some of my work to date. I hope you enjoy it. (Best viewed in HD - you can even turn your...
A Monday quick thought - many photographers lament the time in autumn after the leaves fall off of the trees. "Stick season", or "season of brown" are common references after the commonly sought after fall color scenics have passed. I actually look forward to this...
Fall Colors are running about 2 weeks behind normal peak this year, and I was able to swing a last minute trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to coincide with it. It was a trip that almost didn't happen. I had planned on going somewhere this week, but wasn't quite...
I thought I would share a short, yet thought provoking story that happened to me recently. In a brief conversation I was having with someone (let's name them "Sam" ) about how their vacation went. Sam was describing how they hiked to some remote area of...
As I mentioned in my last post, instead of traveling far from home for fall colors this year, I wanted to concentrate more on places that I haven't been to in awhile, or a spot completely new. When you speak to a lot of people in Michigan about "going fall color"...
"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...
Let me know if you have something similar happen to you. Frequently when I am heading out to photograph, I will be driving along the highway and some quick details will catch my attention. It may be something quite fleeting and subtle. Whatever it is, I do this...
This weekend my wife, our malamute Willow and I stayed with some friends at a cabin we rented near Traverse City, Michigan. It is a truly beautiful area. It wasn't primarily a photography trip, but more about taking in some of the remaining fall color there, some...