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Henry Ford West Bloomfield

Henry Ford West Bloomfield

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...

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Luminosity Masking at 3:30 am

Luminosity Masking at 3:30 am

Cayman Brac Revisited Insomnia sucks, but I may as well make the best of it. I took one of my favorite landscapes for a little reprocessing trip to correct some horizon distortion, and also give it a go with some luminosity masking. It looks so much better now that I...

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Ice Pattern photos

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...

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Stone Windows

Stone Windows

I have finally got back into my growing rock collection and actually revisited an older piece of Arizona Petrified Wood I have.  This small slice has some of the most incredible micro landscapes within it as you can see above. These two images are of the...

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Looking at Trillium in different ways

Looking at Trillium in different ways

Howard Grill had written previously (updated link) about some challenges he was facing in trying to come up with new ways to photograph trillium that is in bloom this time of year. I had commented on one of his original posts that I often face the same creative block...

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