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Fusion Series

Fusion Series

The Fusion Series is a pairing of my fondness for playing with multiple exposures with the aspects of connectivity in nature. With spring wildflower season well underway, it is important to remember a wildflower doesn't exist in isolation. It is a product of the soil...

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Mother Hub Tree and Trillium

Mother Hub Tree and Trillium

We are probably a few weeks away from seeing any trillium spring up in our woods around here. However, I recently developed this image from my archives as I've been thinking a lot about mother trees, also called hub or landmark trees, and their contributions to the...

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Trillium challenges still exist

Trillium challenges still exist

You may recall me writing about photographing trilliums, and how it can be difficult coming up with a new way to look at them.   A few years back now, fellow photographer Howard Grill put forth the trillium challenge as he was also experiencing the same blocks in...

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First day Spring 2009

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...

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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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