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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...
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,...
Over the many years of photographing ice on Lake St. Clair, I've certainly learned that you have to take what you can get when you are out there. It isn't a very welcoming environment unless you are into ice fishing. It is usually quite windy making the wind chill a...
Blue ice is in the headlines of various news stories about Great Lakes winters over the past 5 years or so. While it is often referred to as "rare," I haven't found any substantiating studies explaining why that is other than articles trying to gain attention in...
Winter this year, as always, brought another season of unique photographic opportunities. It really didn't seem to kick into gear until mid-January, but then it came with an assortment of storms, bomb cyclones, ice storms, and that popular term these days of "polar...
As I take a break from my "imagination-run-wild" writing about dune dragons, I'll bring the topic more to the present with some of my first photographs for 2018. I've photographed winter on Lake St. Clair for the past 13 years or so. I keep going back because it...
One of the characteristics I like about photographing here on Lake St. Clair is that the location lends itself to simplicity of the winter landscape. Many people who see these photographs comment that it looks like some far away place, like in the Arctic. ...
It is hard to believe we are already approaching March. The forecasts in the Detroit area are calling for 60° F (16°C) in this second to last weekend in February. But the weather over this past week had me wondering if there was any buildup of ice at my favorite...
I wanted to wish everyone a very Happy New Year for 2017! I missed going out last year on New Year's Day and decided at the last minute this morning to go check out one of my favorite spots. Michigan weather is quite erratic this time of year before we get into the...