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Playing with light

February 16, 2010

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Going to the laundromat is one of those things a person cannot avoid. I know. I’ve tried.  There are, however, good ways to use the downtime between Sort, Load and Fold, should a person be provident enough to bring a camera along.  Behold the Ice.  Can’t you just imagine what it must have been like […]

White alligator

February 3, 2010

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This is Bruce Laidlaw’s response to Scott Thomas’s White Challenge.   There are no monsters in our summer lakes.  But in the winter . . .  all I can say is the bobcat better watch his step.

Picking up sticks and skills

January 31, 2010

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I ran into Shanna Branding over at the Township EMS offices. She wanted to know what on earth I was doing wandering along the shoulder of US-31 picking up big sticks. I wondered myself. Then the penny dropped. She had seen me taking pictures for Torch Lake Views and I was, uncharacteristically, lugging a tripod. […]

A whiter shade of pale

January 20, 2010

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We can’t spend all our time playing on the tubing run.  We must spend some time experimenting with our cameras.  Scott Thomas has posted a new photo challenge over at Views Infinitum.  White.  I can hear Jack Bodis groaning already.  It’s enough that we have to live in it.  Do we have to look at […]

Things worth clicking on and a bit of irony

June 2, 2009

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Just for fun, while I busy myself writing a couple of overdue stories. Photographer Ken Scott’s playful Planet: DH Day (originally printed on the Leelanau Enterprise Back Page 5-28-09).  “Toto, we’re not in Leelanau County anymore . . . “ Mrs. Uhdd’s extraordinary post on damselflies. Really, these photos are something special. And then this . . […]

From Antrim County to County Cork, County Kerry and County Clare, with love

March 30, 2009

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Photographer D. James Galbraith lived in the northern reaches of Antrim County, Michigan, and in a lot of other places, too.  He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his work documenting the intimate life of a small town in Livingston County, Michigan (Hartland: Change in the Heart of America). Galbraith loved to travel in Ireland, […]