The typical waterfall shot is best done on a cloudy day with a tripod and a long exposure. But I often have fun doing a fast exposure shot for a much different effect. Instead of smooth spaghetti water you get a sharper more frozen look. Especially good on a day when the sun is bright […]
Upper Peninsula
Sloping Perspective
While visiting the Grand Marais area in the U.P., I’d tried to get some shots around the “Log Slide” area (where they used to get cut trees to the boats.) I wasn’t very successful… it was a bit overcast, and I hadn’t been there before, so wasn’t sure what to try. I almost decided to […]
Sunset Point
I’ve probably taken more photos of sunsets from Marquette’s Presque Isle than anywhere else. It’s an awesome place to hang out, though it seems like it’s been getting more crowded as the years go by… Marquette is getting too well known. I read somewhere a while ago that landscape photos without people in them are […]
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 […]
Not Quite Lost
“Street” photography makes me uncomfortable because I don’t like to impose on people or invade their space. So when I do take pictures with people in them, I tend to be sneaky about it. (Which is today’s day and age is probably a recipe for disaster.) I did actually make some business cards so that […]
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 […]
Side of Pictured Rocks
On a recent trip back up to the U.P., my youngest son and I took a ride on a Munising boat tour to see Pictured Rocks up close. He hadn’t been on a boat that he could remember and wanted to see what it was like, and I hadn’t been out that way yet myself, […]
Driftwood Sky
I was tempted to photoshop some cooler waves into this… Lake Superior often messes with me. When I’m not there, I see photos posted on Facebook where the waves are several feet high, but as soon as I roll into town she calms right down. When you’re only in town for a few days, it’s […]
Sun and Son
It’s gotten harder over the years to bribe my youngest son to pose in photos… he long ago decided I took more than enough of him. But sometimes the shot just needs a person in it to really work. A few times a summer he and I travel back up to the Marquette area in […]