exploring nature’s infinite connections
I am always a bit torn on visiting this particular spot on Lake St. Clair - the lake formed between two of our Great Lakes - Huron and Erie. I love the ice that piles up here, but it is blastin' cold every time I go out there in the winter. Yeah, yeah I know -...
Mainstreet at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital in Southeast Michigan sets new benchmarks for hospital design This weekend marks the first public open house of a new hospital in the Detroit area, Henry Ford West Bloomfield. I must say this is no ordinary...
Well, we have another storm front headed our way, should hit us later today I think. There was a glimmer of hope we were on the tail end. Everywhere I go it seems people are complaining about the long, hard winter this year - yearning for it to be...
My first outing for 2009 to photograph was a quick jump into my local woods to look for ice patterns. These woods are quite good for ice because nearly all of it floods quite regularly from the Clinton River. Given crazy Michigan weather, it dumped a good 12 inches of...
I caught this interesting story on NPR the other day about a professor who used NASA satellite data to calculate an estimate of the total number of trees on Earth. . That estimate is over 400 billion. (400,246,300,201 give or take - but probably a better number than...
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...
Going back through my archives I found a few images where I took a series of exposures because of a severe dynamic range issue. . I knew that this particular shot was going to be a little problematic for me because I really wanted the details to pop in the driftwood....
Last year, I completely missed the bloom of bloodroot While walking my dog this morning, I noticed it was already springing up on the side of "Wildflower Ridge." This ridge is a small section of Clinton River Park in Sterling Heights that has an abundance of spring...
While processing some images for a print job of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Northern Michigan, I found quite a few raw files that I never processed from a great shoot a couple years ago I find this happens to me quite often - I try to edit as much as I can...