exploring nature’s infinite connections
Abundant pollinators and blooms were found in a recent visit to Oudolf Garden in Detroit. Since my post last year, we've visited a few times and the garden is really starting to fill in to fulfill its ambition to show something different with every visit throughout...
We are probably a few weeks away from seeing any trillium spring up in our woods around here. However, I recently developed this image from my archives as I've been thinking a lot about mother trees, also called hub or landmark trees, and their contributions to the...
I really wish I was a better naturalist. I try though. My bookshelf is filled with identification guides of all sorts - bugs to birds, lichen to leaves. . But the ol' hard drive in my head can't seem to pack in much more information these...
Milkweed is quite an interesting plant. From its budding and flowering to attracting monarch caterpillars, to the eruption of its seedpods in fall - it offers quite a bit to explore. This plant is critical to the life-cycle and defenses of the monarch butterfly. By...
I don't have a lot to write about this particular shot, just wanted to share it. . I was exploring some different processing in Lightroom and ended up combining a few different presets, with some manual tweaks of my own. Roses are such delicate objects, and I...
I don't have the opportunity to do silhouettes like this very often. Today I saw some coneflowers that were on the side of a hill where the sun would be rising directly behind them. It is the kind of shot that requires a bit of prevision because once the sun is up,...
I have been limiting my blogging activities lately due to trying to figure out what is grabbing resources at my web host. I 'll post more about it when it is resolved. Until then, I'll share a new image shot in my backyard recently. I still intend on doing my "Every...
Quite a few nature photographers carry around a black velvet cloth with them when they photograph wildflowers. The purpose is to completely get rid of distracting background elements and it can create quite a dramatic effect complimenting the subject. I don't use this...
As much as I like getting the image 100% perfect in the field, there are times when, when reviewing them later, they just don't seem to have the spirit they had when I originally captured them. I'll download them to my computer, and they will sometimes sit there for...