I believe this is a red wing blackbird… taken on a trip to Kensington Metropark in Michigan a few years back. I wasn’t initially thrilled with the high ISO level (making it grainy) and the original framing of the shot, but more recently while going through older photos I decided to play with it a […]
Michigan
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 […]
Reclaiming in Progress
On highway 23 in Michigan, about 9 or 10 miles north of Ohio, there’s a junk yard hidden on the west side of the road. Depending on the season, you can see more or less of it. But I find it fascinating, given how dense it is within the trees. This photo in particular had […]
Follow The Sun
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 […]
Flower Faces
One of the benefits to keeping pictures that were taken years earlier, is that you learn a lot about editing over time. This photo was taken in Saline back in 2016 and I’d passed over it at the time. But with some creative cropping and better editing knowledge I was able to make something with […]
Branching Out
What I like about this photo is the pattern, and the contrast between the dark branch and white snow/sky. It was a cloudy snowy winter day in Saline, Michigan, a few years back. This isn’t really an “abstract” image, but I think it has abstract qualities to it. It reminds me of the old images […]
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 […]
Pointy Dinosaur
Kensington Metropark in Michigan is great because you can get close up to the wildlife pretty easily, they’re very used to visitors. However, you’re not supposed to feed the sandhill cranes, and the reason is that they’ve gotten a bit pushy. (People ignore the signs and do it anyway, unfortunately.) It’s hard not to be […]