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Twenty Nineteen

Twenty Nineteen

True story, I started this post with some placeholder text of "blah blah blah" so I could go back and look at some of my recent yearly favorites posts to avoid being a repetitive idiot. After reviewing 2016-2018, I have some news for you - I think I can already check...

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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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The Replication of Art

The Replication of Art

"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...

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Winter solstice

Musical notes It seems Winter has been with us in Michigan for well over a month now, despite its unofficial start today in this region of the world.   I often wondered why can't we have fall colors start a month early?!  🙂   On second thought, that would probably...

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Ice Pattern photos

My first outing for 2009 to photograph was a quick jump into my local woods to look for ice patterns. These woods are quite good for ice because nearly all of it floods quite regularly from the Clinton River. Given crazy Michigan weather, it dumped a good 12 inches of...

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