Here are two photos that show that getting the conditions right, particularly the light and also the timing, deeply affects the impact of a photo.
In this first example, the light is actually OK. I suspect though that the composition would work so much better if there had been absolutely »
The thought struck me today, like a lightning bolt, that if I am back to blogging again, then I really need to be writing some blog posts!
I have been out a few times this month with the camera; just locally, short walks. This first photo is of the Argo »
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. »
When I was touring Scotland in March, »
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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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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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 »
Protect endangered habitat and you protect endangered species. That was the message from David Clipner, the Wildlife Program Director at the Leslie Science & Nature Center. I was at the LSNC with other members of the Michigan Artists as David brought various birds of prey and critters »
It was late by the time I got home, so this wasn’t the first thing I saw, and this is the back garden anyway, so obviously not the very first thing to see. Next morning, thinking of breakfast, there is no escape.
But then I waited a few weeks to actually take this photo as »
