Of all the waterfalls in the U.P. I’ve gone to shoot, Munising Falls has been the hardest for me to time right. It seems like between the seasons, the weather and lighting is never quite what I want it to be when I’m able to stop. When I took this photo, the falls were almost […]
Michigan
Winter Wonderland
I feel like this photo, so far, captures best my feeling of what winter is like in my home town of Ishpeming, Michigan. Somewhere under the snow, there’s woods. The only thing that would have made me like this photo better would have been if I could have captured it on a bright sunny day… […]
Lake Michigan Winter Sunset
This is another photo pulled out of my older folders… I’d originally been going for more snow in the foreground, but ended up cropping it so the trees would be the foreground. Lake Superior is always more impressive to me as a lake than Lake Michigan, but Lake Michigan tends to ice over near the […]
Superior Winter Morning
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 […]
Seed Eater
I would have loved to have had the whole bird in the shot, but I ended up having to creatively crop this one. It was originally taken landscape rather than portrait, but his tail was slightly cut off and was out of focus. (You can tell by looking at the bird seed how shallow my […]
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, […]
Fuzzy Devil
Of all the critters at Kensington Metropark that get the boldest about getting handouts (with the exception of the sandhill cranes) these little fuzzy devils are the boldest. They’ll follow you around and complain if you ignore them. For this photo, I’d put a small handful of birdseed on a small wooden post, and was […]
Pecker
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 […]
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 […]