Expanding your photography often comes down to light. Light is what photography is all about. One of my favorite ways of doing this is shooting very early in the morning, before the sun is up, or in bad weather where there’s no sunshine. In this case, I’d gone out to the blackrocks area on Presque […]
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Wet Winter
I’d recently picked up a 24mm fixed lens I wanted to try out (not an expensive lens, but I got it to force myself to move more instead of relying on the zoom lens) and spent some time before and after Thanksgiving freezing my butt of in Marquette. I’d wished the days weren’t as cloudy, […]
Frozen Sticks & Stones
I’ve often found that the weather that makes most people run inside is the most fun to be outside with a camera. Water and the cold make for great and unusual sights. Differences in the levels of oxygen or impurities in the water change the color and texture. And the temperature seems to create different […]
Edge of Winter
When I lived in Saline, my apartment complex had a few trails behind them through a couple of square miles of woods. There was a small river that ran through it. I spent a lot of time walking the trails, though didn’t honestly get a ton of photos… partly because it was pretty early in […]
River Texture
The pareidolia face is a fun part of this, but mostly I liked the side by side textures of snow to ice to water, as well as the color balance. The sparkled reflected sun on the water helps tie the two sides together as well. While I typically tend to focus on larger landscape type […]
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Icy Falls
The typical waterfall shot is best done on a cloudy day with a tripod and a long exposure. But I often have fun doing a fast exposure shot for a much different effect. Instead of smooth spaghetti water you get a sharper more frozen look. Especially good on a day when the sun is bright […]
Yin and Yang
On my last trip to Marquette, the road that runs around Presque Isle hadn’t been opened for the season yet, so I had to walk about a mile to get out to the area near Black Rocks. I was glad I did, since there were some interesting ice/snow formations that were gone within two days […]
Frozen Woods
I’ve tried a handful of times to visit Marquette’s Black Rocks (at Presque Isle) before sunrise, to catch the sun coming up over Lake Superior. I’ve only manage it once where there weren’t too many clouds to actually see some sun. As a result, I’ve played around a lot with long exposure images, since it […]
Erie Winter
Another version of a similar shot I posted recently… the same corner at Magee Marsh, but after about 15 minutes, the strong wind had completely changed the cloud structure and much more blue was visible. It felt very backward, given that there is no blue in the water. This is also pulled back a bit […]