exploring nature’s infinite connections
Over the many years of photographing ice on Lake St. Clair, I've certainly learned that you have to take what you can get when you are out there. It isn't a very welcoming environment unless you are into ice fishing. It is usually quite windy making the wind chill a...
True story, I started this post with some placeholder text of "blah blah blah" so I could go back and look at some of my recent yearly favorites posts to avoid being a repetitive idiot. After reviewing 2016-2018, I have some news for you - I think I can already check...
Winter this year, as always, brought another season of unique photographic opportunities. It really didn't seem to kick into gear until mid-January, but then it came with an assortment of storms, bomb cyclones, ice storms, and that popular term these days of "polar...
I think photographers are perhaps the only ones that might get a little excited when the forecast calls for an ice storm. I know I do, as long as I can avoid the normal anxieties that people have in these types of winter conditions with fears of lost...
Over the years, I have tested and used A LOT of HDR software, always preferring the more natural looking scenes with a touch of drama for visual excitement. Because it became so overused, a lot of people began to hate on anything to do with the name "HDR" in it...
As Spring is now here, I was a bit worried I missed getting out to my ice spot as much as I wanted to this past winter. I had already heard the bay I usually visit on Lake St. Clair was no longer covered. The passing of March 20 doesn't suddenly mean everything...
An interesting thought popped into my head during this day walking in the woods and approaching this area. The woods around my home are pretty much a jumbled mess. Vines, scrubby bushes and snags, thorny plants everywhere. Long time readers may recall me mentioning...
I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Winter Solstice, at least for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere. For the shortest day of the year, I have started by getting up late, and perhaps I will go to bed early. The psychology of shorter days and less sunlight will be...
A bad flu I have been struggling with for the past 3 weeks seems to be finally dissipating and allow me to work on more fun things than trying to cough up a lung. Since I haven't been out shooting much this winter, I felt well enough to browse through some older...