I’ve taken a lot of photos of sandhill cranes… they are fascinating birds. And I love how both these and their cousins the blue herons sound like dinosaurs. I wanted to get a bit more up and personal this time, since I have a lot of the same kinds of shots, but one of these […]
Silhouette
Various kinds of outlines or shadows that make for something interesting as part of or the whole photo…
Time to Go
I’m not sure what the artist was looking to capture with this, but the girl looks terrified to me. And mom looks ticked off. Maybe she was out playing too late? I’ll have to look for a description next time I’m there, maybe there’s a label somewhere. Most statues I’ve photographed have been in cemeteries, […]
- Nature
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Sparkly Shadow
The stretch of water on the Maumee River that runs through Side Cut Park isn’t always very picturesque. There’s a lot of mud and brown most days of the year. However, sometimes I’m really happy with the way the variables come together. In this case, with the sky very empty of clouds and the sun […]
Fading Evening
As someone with some pretty strong introvert tendencies, taking photos with people in them has always been intimidating to me. As a result, I’ve ended up doing more of the ninja approach, where identity isn’t really able to be known from the image, and I’m often not near enough to be seen taking the photo. […]
Sunset Lines
Probably the hardest thing I’ve found for editing is clouds. Especially sunset clouds. I didn’t work on this photo in editing for a while because I really wasn’t happy with the clouds. The main one was actually from a plane that had gone by a while earlier. But, especially near the sun it’s hard to […]
Up Up and Away
This is another shot pulled from my older folders, from images I initially ignored because of the quality of the original captures. In this case, the exposure and ISO were far less than ideal. However, I felt I was able to clean it up enough with some newer Photoshop tricks to make is passable. 🙂 […]
Sunset Shoreline
When I lived in Saline, Michigan and didn’t have direct access to the kind of outdoors that the U.P. had spoiled me with, I spent many evenings walking over to the Saline river with my camera. The fun challenge was trying to find new ways to see the same small area. In this case, it’s […]
Sun and Son
It’s gotten harder over the years to bribe my youngest son to pose in photos… he long ago decided I took more than enough of him. But sometimes the shot just needs a person in it to really work. A few times a summer he and I travel back up to the Marquette area in […]
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Dandy Sunset
On the way home from shooting along the Maumee river, I wanted to try to stop and catch the sun setting on the other side of a field of dandelions. It’s amazing how fast the sun moves when you’re trying to catch it. Fortunately, the cop who was parked just down the road didn’t take […]