exploring nature’s infinite connections
One year ago, I wrote about a bit of a rabbit hole I stepped into regarding the name of a local city-owned nature preserve and confusion over some naming on the maps of a couple of streams that run through or around the Plum Brook Nature Preserve (aka. Sterling...
The evening of October 10, 2024 ( a KP index of 9!) brought another spectacular solar storm our way, triggering displays of the Aurora Borealis across Michigan and elsewhere. The Aurora Borealis appears more frequently at lower latitudes because we are likely...
My last post wrote a little bit about how I find it difficult to photograph larger landscapes in the woods near my home. It is a complex environment that is hard to get in sync with. By "being in sync" I mean you are in a place where ideas and creativity seem to...
Happy First Day of Spring folks - at least for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere. This is one of the wildflower prints that is hanging at Henry Ford West Bloomfield hospital. I originally had this as a horizontal in my gallery (rotated clockwise from here), but...
Rock pillars As Paul Burwell writes about in a recent post on things annoying to a wildlife photographer - weddings can be much scarier to photograph than some of the largest predators around. I happen to agree with him. 🙂 But wedding and portrait photographers...
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...
Happy Leap Day everyone Unfortunately, something that will not be returning in 4 years is Polaroid film It has only been a couple of weeks since the company announced they would no longer be making it I listened to another story about it today on NPR Not only...
Pietersite is one of the gem rocks I have become fascinated with lately, and have been photographing some samples as part of my 'Inspired by Stone' project. It is named after its discoverer, Sid Pieters, a farmer who discovered it in Namibia, Africa in 1962. Since...