Of the several times I’ve visited Crosswinds Marsh in Michigan, I’ve gotten probably the lowest percentage of photos I was happy with. I think is is partially because half the time it’s been very crowded, but I think it also requires the clouds and lighting to be “just right” to go with the various landscape […]
Clouds
Fall Sunset
I passed over this photo several times without editing it, because when I took it I didn’t use the best settings, and it was a lot darker. In photoshop I cranked up the shadow areas and also brought down the highlights in the sky, and got a result I was pretty happy with. I like […]
Sunset Point
I’ve probably taken more photos of sunsets from Marquette’s Presque Isle than anywhere else. It’s an awesome place to hang out, though it seems like it’s been getting more crowded as the years go by… Marquette is getting too well known. I read somewhere a while ago that landscape photos without people in them are […]
Pictured Rocks Wake
Another photo from a recent trip to the U.P., where my youngest son and I took a boat tour along the Pictured Rocks lakeshore out of Munising. (I definitely recommend it if you get up that way.) The only down side was not being able to get up closer or take longer to stop along […]
Evening Light
Probably one of my favorite things about photography is finding a way to create a scene from something that wasn’t fully there to start with. Not by showing something that doesn’t exist, but by selectively showing something, eliminating surrounding things, to end up with what feels like a whole new place. In this case, I’d […]
Side of Pictured Rocks
On a recent trip back up to the U.P., my youngest son and I took a ride on a Munising boat tour to see Pictured Rocks up close. He hadn’t been on a boat that he could remember and wanted to see what it was like, and I hadn’t been out that way yet myself, […]
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 […]
How’s The Weather Up There?
You have to get permission (and I think pay a fee) to take photos professionally that you could sell, but otherwise the zoo is a fun place to practice photography. I really like shooting wildlife and the zoo lets you get a lot closer to different animals than you’d otherwise find in the woods of […]
Driftwood Sky
I was tempted to photoshop some cooler waves into this… Lake Superior often messes with me. When I’m not there, I see photos posted on Facebook where the waves are several feet high, but as soon as I roll into town she calms right down. When you’re only in town for a few days, it’s […]