My landscape photography often begins with my outdoor excursions during non-ideal lighting conditions to find foreground elements which can be combined with a great sky and using my imagination to envision how they could combine with that sky and great light. Foreground elements constantly change, especially as lake water levels fluctuate, storms reshape shorelines and forests, and seasonal colors peak. I use weather reports to help increase my chances of being able to use a good sky but living on a narrow peninsula often gives me the opportunity to walk a short distance to greatly increase that possibility via direct observation.
When sky, lighting, and compositional elements combine I like to find and frame a scene that invites the viewer to imagine traveling through it, especially with a scene that has multiple options or paths, offering the freedom of many choices.
Freedom is an innate part of our psyche because it has been necessary for our survival in our past – the freedom to interact with our environment to secure our water, food, and shelter. Birds represent freedom in many ways, but landscape photography can do so as well.
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Blazing Pre-sunrise Rainbow (click for larger image)

Rainbow Sunset (a natural phenomenon) (click for larger image)

Inflection Moment (click for larger image)

Fire Beach (click for larger image)

Path to Peace (click for larger image)

October Alvar Sunset Rainbow (click for larger image)

Beavertail Sunrise Reflection Pool (click for larger image)

Striations (click for larger image)

Natural Bacteria Iridescence Sunrise (click for larger image)

North Huron Island Rainbow (click for larger image)

Wind Shear Sunrise (click for larger image)

Rocky Cove Sunrise (click for larger image)

Resisting Winter (click for larger image)

Painter’s Palette Ceiling (click for larger image)

Alvar Beach Fire Sunset (click for larger image)

Ominous Alvar Cumulonimbus (click for larger image)

Fire Beach Sunrise 2 (click for larger image)

Flow Growth (click for larger image)

Agate Wall Evening Shower (click for larger image)

Dazzle Creek (click for larger image)

Nebular Ice (view up a frozen waterfall) (click for larger image)

The Basin (click for larger image)

Horseshoe Pond (click for larger image)

Framing Michigan Fall (click for larger image)

Mirror Beach (a natural phenomenon) (click for larger image)

Fire Beach Sunrise 4 (click for larger image)

Yellow Rocks Rainbow (click for larger image)

Collide (click for larger image)

Fall Evening Swamp Reflection (click for larger image)

Cyan Passage (click for larger image)

Alvar October Sunset (click for larger image)

Red Jack Lookout (click for larger image)

Illuminated Sleet Storm (click for larger image)

Hourglass Cave (click for larger image)

Surge (click for larger image)

Fire Beach Sunrise 3 (click for larger image)

Miner’s Cave Passage (click for larger image)

Underwater Bear Attack (click for larger image)

Alvar Sunrise (click for larger image)

Cloud Top Wind Shear (click for larger image)

Creek of Doom (click for larger image)

Murder at Alvar Beach (click for larger image)

Ice Embers (click for larger image)

Pickford Hay Field (click for larger image)

Split Rock Sunset (click for larger image)

Cumulus Fall (click for larger image)

Sunset Splash (click for larger image)

Laser Shot (click for larger image)

Alvar Doom (click for larger image)

Fall Snow Reflection (click for larger image)

Dynamic Coast – northern Lake Huron (click for larger image)

Blood Cove (click for larger image)

Beavertail Bay Before the Storm (click for larger image)

The Aftercrash (click for larger image)

Tamarack Creek First Snow (click for larger image)

Turbulence (click for larger image)

Ember Field (click for larger image)

Pictured Rocks Wall Falls (click for larger image)

Fall Shorebird Reservoir (Lesser Yellowlegs bottom left) (click for larger image)

Prentis Creek First Snow (click for larger image)

Lake Superior Fall Shoreline (click for larger image)

Peninsula Sunrise (click for larger image)

Loon Passage (click for larger image)

Whitewater Rush (click for larger image)

Lake Huron Morning Blend (click for larger image)

Fall Cedar Trunks (click for larger image)

Lake Superior Fall Shoreline Puddles (click for larger image)

Huron Sun Halo (click for larger image)

Lake Huron Shoreline First Snow (click for larger image)

Split Rock (click for larger image)

Rust Rock Cove (click for larger image)

Wet Wall (click for larger image)

Mud Lake in Fall (click for larger image)

Snow Plastered

Ice Pillars Archway (click for larger image)

Northern Lake Huron Peninsula Tip in Winter

Frozen Falls (click for larger image)

Ice Curtains (click for larger image)

Icicle Dips – Lake Huron Shoreline

Wetmore Pond in Fall

Canyon Falls

Presque Isle River in Fall (click for large image)

Pictured Rocks Wave Circle (click for larger image)

Copper-stained Cave (click for larger image)

Snow Fall Color Reflection

Lake Huron Winter Wind

Lily Pad Pond Snow Reflection

Evergreen Pond First Snow (click for larger image)

Miner’s Playground

Porcupine Mountains Carp River (click for larger image)

Fall Beaver Pond at Dusk

Storm Sunset

Scotty’s Creek First Snow

Storm Clouds Over Smartweed

First Day of Spring in Michigan’s U.P.

Organic Farm

Cattle Drive

Boom