exploring nature’s infinite connections
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...
Early Exposure Riiiiinggggg. "Hello Mark - I think we are all set for tomorrow - the winds look good" That's a phone call I remember getting from Scott of the Westwind Balloon Company back in October of 1998. It's hard to believe that was 20 years...
As I mentioned in my last post, instead of traveling far from home for fall colors this year, I wanted to concentrate more on places that I haven't been to in awhile, or a spot completely new. When you speak to a lot of people in Michigan about "going fall color"...
In sorting through some of my archives, I found a couple of images from a trip up to Michigan's Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on the southern shore of Lake Superior near Munising. I have already processed many images from this particular trip but found a couple...
This shot was one taken the day after the one below, I am just very late in writing the post about it. 🙂 It is amazing how much the shoreline changed in a day, all of the ice sheets were gone. The winds had shifted on the lake towards shore and likely...
As Spring is now here, I was a bit worried I missed getting out to my ice spot as much as I wanted to this past winter. I had already heard the bay I usually visit on Lake St. Clair was no longer covered. The passing of March 20 doesn't suddenly mean everything...
Today marks the birthday of Michigan, where 176 years ago, Andrew Jackson signed the state into the Union. As a native Michigander, I wonder about how often people think about the unique features of this place. I suppose a birthday is as good as time as any to...
This image is from my "sand dune" fall trip this year, only instead of Silver Lake dunes where most of my shared images have been from, this is from the more popular and well known Sleeping Bear Dunes. I am just now getting around to processing the shots I intended...
Wow, December already... where did November go?? I am still editing through some dune shots and decided to process this one this morning. I photographed this scene probably 10 minutes or so after the beautiful sunrise I posted about. It seems like quite long...