People often look at you funny when you crawl around on the ground with a camera, but it allows for a better shot in many cases. Especially with trees. In this particular case, it helps because it lets me hide the non-tree stuff on the horizon (houses, buildings, etc.) and lets this feel more natural […]
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Growing for a Swim
This is one of my favorite trees at Kensington Metropark in Michigan… it’s almost completely fallen sideways into the lake, but is still hanging on to life. It’s rooted right on the shoreline, so the angle provides an interesting perspective that feels a bit off (and any time something is different it can make for […]
Piggy Back Ride
I must have looked at these trucks as I drove past them on 23 heading North for the better part of a year before finally stopping to take a picture. This was my second attempt (the first was on a much cloudier day.) From the highway there’s a fence in-between where you can stand and […]
Surprised Wall
This was taken at Bieber Mill (or Carpenter’s Mill, depending on your Google search)… many of my intentional shots from the stop here didn’t work out, it was hard to set them up as there was a larger group of photographers all getting in each other’s way. I liked this one because the wall looked […]
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 […]
Forgotten Window
I could spend months driving back and forth across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with my camera. I actually don’t remember where this picture was taken. I know it was on the West end of the U.P., but was from a few years back. It’s off the side of a road, though not a big road, and […]
Outside In
Somewhere near Epoufette in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, there’s an abandoned house on the shore of Lake Michigan. I’ve stopped a few times on trips back and forth, and this shot was taken shortly after getting my first camera (Canon EOS Rebel T3). I hadn’t really planned the shot at all, but really ended up liking the […]
Falls on the Wall
One of the stops on a day long photography group outing I took part in was in Elyria, Ohio. The two things I remember about Elyria, were this waterfall with the crumbling infrastructure, and the house nearby that had (among many other things) a singing Big Mouth Billy Bass on the outside of their house […]
Dodging Flowers
Sometimes the best shots are found randomly while you’re driving from one place to another. One one of my trips through the U.P. I drove past an old truck in someone’s front yard alongside the highway. I had to maneuver a bit to find an angle that didn’t show their house and driveway, but I […]