I spent a few days last week on Sturgeon Lake in northern Minnesota. Sturgeon Lake is a large lake just off I35 about 40 miles southwest of Duluth. I was planning on trying my hand at starscape photography for the first time, but fate had other plans for me while I was there. The first … Continue reading Sky, clouds and snow…
With the recent resurgence of COVID-19 (will it ever be gone), it appears that we will not make our usual February/March trip out to JTNP again this year. We missed the trip last year, again due to COVID-19. We’ve already started making some tentative plans for 2022, but I thought I would take a look … Continue reading Joshua Tree Retrospective
One of the landscape photographers I follow, Charlotte Gibb (charlottegibb.com), describes intimate landscapes as “…photographs that derive their subject matter from the smaller details within a larger scene.” And if you look at the intimate landscape images on her website, they are indeed a slice of a larger, grander vista. While I have enjoyed her … Continue reading The “Micro Landscape”
Good-bye to 2020… ‘Nuff said. There are many things for us to look forward to in 2021. A new president, vaccines and an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, time at the lake with its sunrises and sunsets, and we are cautiously planning some trips and hoping to get to Joshua Tree and Teddy Roosevelt National … Continue reading Hoping 2021 is an upgrade
Twenty-twenty is coming to a close and it’s a fitting time to take a look back over the year and assess my work. And as I made my way through that assessment, I could not help but pause and think of how the COVOD-19 pandemic was a major impact to my photography work and life … Continue reading Looking Back at 2020
