I’d gone to the park when I saw it was snowing out… I wanted to try out my new camera hood I’d gotten a few months earlier. (Typically for shooting at waterfalls, to protect from spray, but works for snow pretty good as well.) However, it had almost stopped snowing by the time I got […]
Trees
Tall Trail
I liked the big tree on the right, but mainly I liked the lines here… the first thing that had caught my eye was the squiggly snow covered tree on the ground on the lower left, but also that combined with the straight lines from the shadows. You can’t quite tell that Lake Erie is […]
Retro Woods
On my way back to my car after a photo trip to Magee Marsh I snapped some random photos of trees as I walked by them. This one in particular, for some reason, seemed to want to be in black and white. There’s something old and disturbing about it that catches me. I feel like […]
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Fall Ball Self Portrait
Overall not the greatest photo… but I liked how the trees curve in the reflection. Plus, it felt like I needed to use one of a handful of these I took for something as it turns out that sticking a glass ball on dry leaves is a great way to start a fire. Download: Fall_Ball_Self_Portrait-Asgard_Photography-IMG_5424.jpg […]
Swan Horizon
I’d intended to get some shots at Magee Marsh but they were shut down for hunting of some kind or another, so I ended up walking around the ponds at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge which is nearby. Not as much woods you can get into, but sometimes some birds… in this case I apparently found […]
Motel Art
For some reason, every photo I took of this scene came out looking like something you’d see hanging in an old motel, likely a painting by somebody you’d not heard of. Motel art. Still, I find it peaceful to look at, and I’ve always kind of had a fondness for the campy motel aesthetic. Scenes […]
Field of Leaves
This was my favorite tree when I lived in Saline, Michigan… it’s in Curtiss Park, a small park on the West end of town not far from my apartment at the time. It’s the biggest tree in the park and always seemed to me to have the most noticeable personality. Every now and then if […]
Branching Out
I debated whether to include this one, as I’m not fully happy with the foreground and overall framing. But, I like the ambiguity about whether the two prongs of the branch are actually two or a reflection (which it is). And I also liked the clouds and fall colors of the trees on the other […]
Putting Down Roots
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 […]