You might notice several shots similar to this throughout the site… there aren’t a lot of waterfalls within easy driving distance of Toledo. The old locks at the Side Cut Park in Maumee are probably the most interesting. I like the combination of stone walls, trees and vines, and the water. The trick is going […]
Architecture
Buildings and things man made… the outdoors and natural things interest more more, but sometimes it’s fun to shoot in the city.
Fluffy Water
While the long exposure “spaghetti” style of waterfalls can be interesting, I often find it fun to go the opposite direction and use a faster shutter speed to capture water in a more “frozen” kind of feeling. In this case, I liked the contrast of the “sharp” frozen water against the rounded “smooth” pattern of […]
Surprised Wall
This was taken at Bieber Mill (or Carpenter’s Mill, depending on your Google search)… many of my intentional shots from the stop here didn’t work out, it was hard to set them up as there was a larger group of photographers all getting in each other’s way. I liked this one because the wall looked […]
Forgotten Window
I could spend months driving back and forth across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with my camera. I actually don’t remember where this picture was taken. I know it was on the West end of the U.P., but was from a few years back. It’s off the side of a road, though not a big road, and […]
Distant Memory
Right before turning off on a road to explore the Laughing Whitefish area there’s a post office for Deerton, Michigan. Right near that, there’s a house that’s seen better days. Every time I see houses like this (there are many along the roads in the U.P. when you get out away from the towns) it […]
Outside In
Somewhere near Epoufette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, there’s an abandoned house on the shore of Lake Michigan. I’ve stopped a few times on trips back and forth, and this shot was taken shortly after getting my first camera (Canon EOS Rebel T3). I hadn’t really planned the shot at all, but really ended up liking the […]
Polish Water
While trying to take some shots of the old abandoned ore dock in Marquette’s lower harbor, I took this one of the old posts under the water in between the ore dock and the land. These are the times I wish I had an underwater camera to get some more interesting shots. Lake Superior is […]
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Stoned
I was excited to find out Toledo had a Botanical Garden, though to be honest I’d been spoiled for it having been to the one in Madison, Wisconsin with my folks. Toledo’s doesn’t have nearly as much in it, though there’s a nice river and bridge and some neat statues. I’m not sure what it […]
Nuclear Ice
Towards the end of winter I like to try to catch ice shots on the Great Lakes. In this case, it was at the Magee Marsh Wildlife Area on the shore of Lake Erie in Ohio. Waves had pushed up the ice pretty high in some places, and while it was tempting to climb out on […]