exploring nature’s infinite connections
Winter is usually a slow photography time, but I get out when the conditions call. We've had a good dose of snow this year, but it primarily came over a short period. Nowhere near the amounts some areas impacted by the lake effect snow had. After last year's mild...
The Great Lakes are a bit below normal as far as ice cover for this time in January at only 2.9%. But similar to past years, a lot can change in just a matter of a couple weeks. The little tilted heart-shaped lake down by Detroit is Lake St. Clair, where I do a lot of...
Walking one of our dogs this morning when it was 19°F (-7°C) certainly made it perfectly clear that winter is coming, by the calendar date anyway. Of course, meteorological winter already arrived 7 days ago. We've already had our first snow, first snow that sticks,...
I find that when I am out photographing, there are certain things that tend to catch my eye. Ice globules or ice globs are one of them. I haven't had much success in photographing them though. They may catch my eye, but they always seem just out of reach. Ice Globules...
I think photographers are perhaps the only ones that might get a little excited when the forecast calls for an ice storm. I know I do, as long as I can avoid the normal anxieties that people have in these types of winter conditions with fears of lost...
It is that time of year when I start thinking about photographing on the ice. However, with the extremely mild temperatures this year, I am doubtful I will be able to walk out on the ice like I did in this shot a couple of years ago. This lake, Lake St. Clair, is...
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...
"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...
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...