Moonrise Over Passage was created on 04 | 05 | 2012 8:00:39 PM EST, 3 miles west of the DeTour Passage in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
You should be outside.
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A bit of a mockery statement towards what is deemed “sexy/fashionable” vs. the standardized “this is my preggo progress” image.
I was just going through some files from the end of the summer and came across these images – I forgot about them! Nothing too fancy though-
This is from Labor Day weekend and the beautiful weather we had. sheesh. This dude was cruising along in a pretty serious wind storm we were having – getting some pretty sick air too, not really shown here. He looked flat against the water when he was way up there.
Photographed looking southwest down West Bay from Old Mission Peninsula, about three miles south of the lighthouse.
Have a great weekend –
Well, I decided to do a complete harvest of everything remaining in my garden today – other than the brussels sprouts. I had boat loads, actually three large pot loads, of tomatoes in various stages of ripeness hanging out. I’ve been really diligent about getting the garden covered the last few weeks and actually had not even removed the cover the last three days. It was time to call it a season. We just weren’t going to get the warmth to get the tomatoes ripe. The season was over. It was time to pull them before I lost them for good.
I started by grabbing my largest pot to collect them as I knew I had several out there still. Quickly I realized I would need….
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A few years ago I made this photo, here on the right-hand side of the screen, and posted it on my flickr account. The subject matter happened to be just a tomato – a special tomato though. It was my very fist tomato from seed, in my own garden, in my own backyard. I was pretty pleased. I think homegrown veggies are beautiful and I have been known to photograph almost every vegetable that’s ever come out of my garden. But, this image still remains my favorite. It was the start of a new era in my eating prowess. It was at this point when my red meat intake decreased drastically and switched away from beef and onto venison.
Okay, so now to get to the point of this post. This simple tomato image was the inspiration to my latest commissioned piece – of which was delivered to the client today. I wanted to share it with you and express how grateful I am to be able to work with individuals like that and …
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A couple of days ago I had the privilege of using a Leica M9 rangefinder. A good friend of mine was gracious enough to allow me to borrow it for the afternoon. Him and I have been chatting for a while about photography and where it can and can’t go (by it I mean me). He is obviously a Leica shooter and I am not – this is a place that I have wanted to explore and test my skill and patience. I have been stuck in a world of photographer that has really allowed myself to disassociate with what I am physically doing and “letting” my camera do all the work (even shooting manual!). I have been very interested in…..
I love that lady. She’s pretty good to me.
(ps, an excellent beverage as well)
Continuing my coverage of two local bicycling teams, I covered Real Women Tri & Leadout Racing two weeks ago at Grattan Raceway. Grattan, a multifunctional, multi-motorsport racing complex, is about 30 minutes Northeast of Grand Rapids, MI. Wednesday evenings in the summer are reserved for bicycles. The concept is pretty simple but….
We traveled over to the east side of the state yesterday so the wife could compete in the Tour De Frankenmuth 2011 Road Race. It was a cold wet day but it was still fun. Sarah is part of the women’s team Real Women Tri and their brother company is Leadout Racing – I attempted to document both teams, though admittedly I focused on my wife’s race more. And I completely missed the finish for the men’s races. Sorry about that.
A few peppers I grew this summer and have since let dry out. From time to time I’ll throw them in a coffee bean grinder and put them ….
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… and asked her if she wouldn’t mind. She was a little confused and didn’t understand what my “vision” was. All she saw was people in an alley. I saw more…
Pypeline.