The idea of this trip was borne in part out of the frustrations of my previous trip while taking a long detour drive because the hike I’d planned proved too challenging that day and I was having all this trouble finding accommodation and I pulled the car over for »
It seems I haven’t really made all that many photographs in Ann Arbor this year, not even in our garden. The way my hands hurt in the cold can increase my reluctance to just get out and wander around Ann Arbor as I might have done some years back. »
There are a variety of ways to take the photographs to use to make a composite, panorama photograph, and a variety of software options to stitch the frames together and deal with any problems; plus there are a number of ratios you can crop the result to, or you »
As a warm up for my trip to Scotland next week, I was out yesterday in Black Pond Woods at LSNC. There was a lot
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All the excitement with the Leslie Science and Nature Center in 2016 was over their 30th anniversary and especially the exhibition at the Kerrytown Concert House. I was privileged to be one of the Michigan Artists contributing a piece to the exhibition and was able »
There was a time when I was really concerned with detail, with sharpness, in my photographs. With my first digital camera, it didn’t have too many pixels, and I found that frustrating. Many years later I discovered the issue was really more with the software, and reworking those files »
Fall is coming to Black Pond woods. Admittedly, not that much yet. There are quite a few yellowed leaves on the floor. And it is even more difficult to see in the trees themselves. It’s most visible in some of the vines and especially in the sumac.
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After all my visits to Black Pond Woods, I wanted to get back to my River Huron project – has it really been almost a year?. Originally it was about “Intersections”, so where creeks and roads, and railways, met or crossed the river; but I’m beginning to think »
A holiday weekend. Martin has come to visit. And he’s brought his camera! We decided Matthaei Botanical Gardens would be a good place to see. They had a great display of flowers at the gardens proper, but for some reason no
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Nowadays my photography so often seems so dependent on the tripod, and I’m accompanied by a bag of lenses, that I find it’s refreshing occasionally to just head off with camera in hand and the one lens that’s on the camera. There’s less “perfection” (you live in hope) and »
