I’m pretty sure this is a “common grackle”, at least according to Google images. I didn’t quite have the depth of field on this I’d have liked, but his eye is so intense to me for some reason… he’s tiny, but in the eye you can still see the dinosaur he was millions of years […]
Michigan
Sentry
So, it turns out it’s hard to get wildlife to sit still for a two second long exposure shot. That’s where Photoshop comes in. The bird in the foreground was taken from another one of my photos. (The birds in the background are a bit blurry, but because they’re so far away it’s harder to […]
Tucked In
I didn’t get up to Kensington Metropark in Michigan as often as I’d have liked this last summer, but did pull a few more edits from my older folders… the sandhill cranes there are probably way too comfortable with people. I’m always cautious when they’re looking for handouts, those face swords are like a foot […]
Flowing Foam
When I first got a camera, I looked down my nose at waterfall photos. It seemed like everyone was taking them, and for some reason it just didn’t make sense to me. I wasn’t interested. But they grew on me. I go back and forth between preferring the “spaghetti” look vs. capturing a high speed […]
Treezing
While I tend to only shoot images with an obvious subject or subjects these days, I’m still sometimes fascinated with images that focus on patterns or textures. This was taken back in my early days with my first camera, through a window of my car idling on the side of US2 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. […]
Through the Weeds
While I wasn’t completely happy with the composition of this one (mostly because of the way the shoreline weeds are arranged) I did like the clouds and sun. In particular, how the clouds appear to wrap around and hold the sun in place. I was hoping for more of the reflection of the sun in […]
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 […]
Cloudy Trails
Crosswinds Marsh in lower Michigan is one of the places I’ve got a few times and never gotten a shot I was completely happy with. Yet, it feels like a place where I would get shots I love. It’s just far enough out of the way that I haven’t made it more than a few […]
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. 🙂 […]