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...
Botany is not one of my strong suits. Perhaps the strongest memory I have of recognizing that is from a hike some years back during a training class on vernal pools. While hiking to one specific pool, one of the class instructors, Ms. Phyllis Higman, a Senior...
Autumn colors are coming to a peak (edit: now past) here in Southeast Michigan, about right on time this year. They dissipated a bit faster than I would have liked. I took an opportunity to visit a nearby 90-acre nature preserve. Places like this are far and few...
Earlier this year in April, my wife and I took part in a Vernal Pool volunteer training workshop that enlists citizen scientists to help a monitoring program underway by Michigan State University and the Michigan Natural Features Inventory (MNFI). This was,...
As a follow-on to my previous post, I thought of a situation that I encounter quite frequently, and imagine other photographers do also. (At least I hope they do!). If it all comes naturally, then keep it to yourself ok? It will be your little secret. 🙂 On my...
I have been meaning to start some blog postings about previsualization I have had with some images Granted my brain doesn't often think that far in advance, but sometimes I get lucky! 🙂 So I hope you enjoy the first in the "Idea to Image" series.. The plant...