exploring nature’s infinite connections
Season changes bring some turbulent and chaotic weather in the Great Lakes. Lake Superior is known to be particularly temperamental. Recalling a day from 2015 when I was in Michigan's Upper Peninsula photographing autumn color in mid-October, the weather was looking...
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...
A quote I stumbled on recently about the Great Lakes, and in particular Lake Superior struck a chord with me. I know I am not alone in thinking that calling these bodies of water "lakes" - even if prefaced by the adjective in the name, doesn't give them justice. We...
A side effect of being a bit distracted lately is that I completely did not register that it was the first day of Autumn (for us Northern Hemispherites) today. It took the mention of the Autumn Equinox in an email for it to spark an "oh yeah..." moment in my head. So...
The US National Park system celebrates its 104th birthday on Aug 25, 2020. Here in Michigan, we are fortunate to have 5 National Parks and 2 other national sites managed by the NPS. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Lake Superior, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, near...
Five Mile Point Every time I work up an image for a client, I find I am going back into its depths and re-evaluating the processing I have already done on it. Depending on how long it has been since I prepared a particular image for print (or perhaps not even...
Rock pillars As Paul Burwell writes about in a recent post on things annoying to a wildlife photographer - weddings can be much scarier to photograph than some of the largest predators around. I happen to agree with him. 🙂 But wedding and portrait photographers...
I have been working on cataloging some more images and came across a few shorebird pictures that I liked but had not posted them yet on my site. . It got me thinking about some of the challenges in photographing these little guys. In particular, I remember getting...
I am just back from a quick trip "Up North", and one of the stops was of course at my favorite place in Michigan - Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. . (link is to NPS map) Sometimes photographers talk about how there are no 'grand landscapes' (aka. "out...