exploring nature’s infinite connections
Autumn colors are coming to a peak (edit: now past) here in Southeast Michigan, about right on time this year. They dissipated a bit faster than I would have liked. I took an opportunity to visit a nearby 90-acre nature preserve. Places like this are far and few...
This is a piece of dinosaur bone I purchased a while ago when I was going a bit crazy with seeking out interesting patterns for my Stonescapes series of images. I was attracted to the unique pattern and colors, something I was completely unaware could happen with...
Lake Superior's shoreline in Michigan is highly diverse. From the cliffs of Pictured Rocks, to flat cobblestone covered beaches around Whitefish point, to this area I explored some years back near Marquette. Wetmore Landing is home to some of the oldest rock...
"My triumph as a counterfeiter was my defeat as a creative artist." - Han van Meergeren, artist and forger Han van Meergeren was a Dutch painter who became a famous forger during the early 1900s and especially during World War II. He refined his technical painting...
Happy Leap Day everyone Unfortunately, something that will not be returning in 4 years is Polaroid film It has only been a couple of weeks since the company announced they would no longer be making it I listened to another story about it today on NPR Not only...
There is a fantastic conversation between several well known photographers, recently recorded into a podcast by George Jardine. The topic is basically many thoughts about archiving of photographs, our organization of them, and why. Jay Maisel, Greg Gorman, Seth...
Something you didn't know #2 . in a followup to my tagging to reveal things 'you didn't know' - I thought it would be a good lead-in to simply refer you to a recent article at The Detroiter.com. . It is a nice article about Dispatch and the efforts and dedication of...
Just sharing an interesting link to a list over on Wikipedia. I don't suppose I will ever understand why these images fetch the prices they do. I can understand some of them hold fairly significant historical reference, like one of the first color photographs. Ansel...
I have heard a couple of interviews lately where the photographers were asked what was their first experience with photography, and a couple of them referred to cameras they played with as kids. It is probably a sign of those in my generation that many of us ended up...