exploring nature’s infinite connections
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...
Working on this photograph today brought all sorts of thoughts into my head. First, it was - this was a cool place, I should go back there. Then I think - wait - I made this exposure 9 years ago, and am only getting to it now. Shouldn't I catch up with my backlog...
While working on a few photographs today of Lake Huron, I began to think about how different the landscape (lakescape?) and geology are between the lake's northern and southern ends. I suppose that is to be expected for a lake that is more than 200 statute miles long....
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...
While archive mining today, I came across this undeveloped photograph from New Year's Day in 2008. It is difficult to remember the specifics of that day, but the photo does offer some strong hints as to what drew me outside. It is what I refer to as "sticky snow." We...
Traditions have never resonated strongly with me for some reason or another. However, I suppose summarizing yearly favorites has become one of the sorts. I regret a little I didn't start it until 2007, perhaps a function more influenced by convenience. It is so much...
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...
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 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...