exploring nature’s infinite connections
We are fortunate to have a number of designated wilderness areas in Michigan, which can be easy to forget when you live close to one of the sprawling metropolitan areas that seem to keep expanding. It is a constant source of sadness for me to see local woodlands...
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...
I suppose anyone that has done any road tripping has come across the signs... Scenic Overlook Ahead. In the Detroit area, it may as well be an endangered species, if not extinct. That isn't because there aren't any scenic views, only that we don't have...
Fall Colors are running about 2 weeks behind normal peak this year, and I was able to swing a last minute trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to coincide with it. It was a trip that almost didn't happen. I had planned on going somewhere this week, but wasn't quite...
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...
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...
I recently had an image of mine selected for the Spring-Summer 2011 cover of a local college's art journal, called the MacGuffin. It is a journal that features short stories, poems and a few photographs from 32 other contributors. It is quite an old image, the...
Just an image for this post, not much else. This is a rendering of an image I made not long ago where I wanted to add further simplicity to a very cluttered scene. The end result - Indian Paintbrush looking rather ... painterly.