Archive for the “Notes From the Woods” Category

You folks probably already know I am a sucker for cool looking rocks, and if you don’t – well – I have revealed my kryptonite.   They are pretty cooperative subjects, they don’t ask for much, work for free, and not demanding at all actually.   They can look good in a variety of light [...]

I have been working on a website redesign steadily for about the past 2 months or so.  I finish off little bit by little bit.   When anyone works on web design, you are likely to go out and see what’s out there lately.   One thing I noticed is that a lot of photographers [...]

Hard to believe I didn’t introduce this big guy to you folks sooner.   Obviously from my bear trip last fall, but this particular bear made quite an impression for obvious reasons.  Not only was this male boar huge, but the scar across his nose gave him, well to put it bluntly – the total [...]

If you have followed this blog in the past year or so, you know I have become a fan of a few of the TopazLabs Photoshop plugins.   Today they just released a major update to their popular Topaz Adjust plugin, Topaz Adjust 4.
If you are already a Topaz Adjust user, the bonus is that [...]

Health care centers are increasingly looking to nature photography to help add some color, warmth, and serenity to normally visually cold, sterile, bland environments.  This is one of the latest installations of my work at a hospital in Detroit in one of those environments.    This is the radiology corridor at Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, [...]

Just a test of my Wordpress iPhone app that allows me to make quick posts from my phone. I took this photo just 30 minutes ago and did all processing on my iPhone using the Best Camera app and Photoshop Mobile. Sometimes the best camera (and computer as well) IS the one [...]

I processed this image recently, although I actually made the exposure back in August 2008.   I worked with it quite a bit to give it some depth and dimension.   I wanted it to look like you could pick one of the rocks up off the page and put it in your pocket.   [...]

There is one thing that kills an afternoon for me (in a good way?), and that is poking around for new music.   My music tastes tend to be fairly diverse, which is probably reflected equally in my preferences for nature subjects.   One of the things I tend to do is to go to [...]

At a bit of loss for words lately folks, so just a photo to share… a bit different from the one I posted before. I am sure this landscape doesn’t even exist anymore, which is a pretty cool aspect of shooting these icescapes.   It makes you appreciate the moment even more when the light [...]

I am currently working my way through a book that my wife gave me for my birthday called Camera, by Todd Gustavson.  It is a large, coffee table book that takes you through the evolution of the camera from the very first photograph made in 1826 to the modern digital cameras of today.  It seems [...]