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• ▼ 2008 (51)
  • ▼ July (2)
    • How far down the rabbit hole will you go?
    • More playing with HDR
  • ► June (6)
    • Embracing failure
    • Overdue dust cleaning!
    • Idea to Image Series
    • Playing with HDR
    • Words of wisdom on creativity
    • Fill the frame - down the drain
  • ► May (7)
    • Picasso Marble
    • Green photographic papers
    • New rock abstract pictures
    • Association with the familiar
    • Human spamming scum
    • Dry Mounting
    • Do what you say you will do
  • ► April (9)
    • A Photo Editor's dream?
    • Better than the real thing
    • Spring Wildflowers in bloom
    • Bloodroot pictures
    • Large Prints
    • Color Explosions and Rock Habits
    • The Light in the Air
    • Great Blue herons building nest
    • Pictured Rocks photos
  • ► March (9)
    • Monochrome Birds and Lightroom Presets
    • Inspired by Stone project continues
    • New look
    • What's in a name?
    • A pocket full of rulers
    • Outsourcing
    • First Blackbird
    • Seeing stones
    • Winter go away
  • ► February (9)
    • End of an era
    • The Mac Experience - Part 4
    • Rose Plume Agate & Pietersite
    • Happy Birthday Photoshop & Lightroom!
    • The Mac Experience - Part 3
    • The Mac Experience - part 2
    • The most commonly taken bird photo
    • New to create the old
    • Pietersite macro art
  • ► January (9)
    • Sierra Club notecards
    • Inspired by stone
    • The Mac Experience - part 1
    • Ducks and backups
    • Wildlife closeups
    • Still here, ups and downs
    • PC Hell
    • Snow - the great simplifier
    • Powdered Sugar Bomb explodes in Michigan!
• ► 2007 (122)
  • ► December (11)
    • Reflections on images of 2007
    • Underwater pictures
    • The way things are...according to us
    • Season's Greetings!
    • Moods and seeing
    • Natural snow tree skirts
    • Blue Iris - Color of the Year 2008
    • Presets and playgrounds
    • Generate more traffic for your blog
    • The Mac wait
    • Winter twilight
  • ► November (10)
    • What is your box?
    • Crossroads
    • After the leaves have fallen...
    • Finding harmony in a leaf pile
    • Organization and Legacy
    • If I only had one lens...
    • Landscape photography tools
    • Contemplating switch to Mac
    • Wood duck pictures | photos | photography
    • Rain, rivers, and unexpected finds
  • ► October (7)
    • Water versus Rock
    • $1,375 per gallon
    • Trying new things from a neck pillow
    • Five things I hate about nature
    • Signing photographs
    • In search of symbiotic subjects
    • Saturated with information
  • ► September (10)
    • Shoot first, ID later
    • Milkweed photography | pictures | photos
    • Its final form...JPEG, slide, or print?
    • Dreaming of fall
    • Creative currency
    • The Education of a Photographer
    • The Great Paper Chase
    • Just another box of cereal
    • Delicate rose
    • Wetpixel Quarterly and missing underwater
  • ► August (11)
    • Applying formulas
    • Nature Photography page 1
    • Gallery Canvas Panels
    • Inspiration and fermentation
    • The Dark age of Digital Printing
    • Firewire 800 upgrades
    • Mind melding
    • Magic, Mystery and appreciation
    • Photography of sand, water & time
    • The allure of the beach
    • Tahquamenon Bay | Lake Superior
  • ► July (12)
    • Wildlife news
    • Detroiter
    • Bearing with our impacts
    • Black and white bird photography
    • Chinny
    • Sunny days? No thanks...
    • Pure Michigan
    • Seeing and letting go
    • Protect your images with watermarks
    • You will burn your eye out kid
    • Excessive resources; return from banishment
    • Technostress
  • ► June (9)
    • Standing tall
    • Down time?
    • Eye of the Swamp
    • Don't ignore your own yard...
    • Songs of Insects
    • Safari for Windows - looks good!
    • A day inside
    • Shaking the trees
    • Edgy detours to Spring
  • ► May (10)
    • Contrasting portrayals in processing
    • The black background
    • Relaxing at the den
    • The opportunity at last
    • Endangered Species Day
    • Cramming a subject into a style box
    • Color and color alone
    • Going for the glow - rotate yourself
    • Late for a leaf and light
    • Respect and gift of trust
  • ► April (10)
    • Looking at Trillium in different ways
    • Alternate pursuits and talents
    • Hepatica from the archives
    • Most expensive photographs, and today?
    • Alien Ice
    • Visual balance and the meadowlark
    • When do you have enough?
    • Red-throated loon
    • I wanted it small in the frame!
    • Most annoying photo critique comments
  • ► March (17)
    • Choose your battles wisely
    • Snacks in the woods
    • Thank you for your support!!
    • Negative space, shapes, and diversity
    • Colbert and the bear
    • More investigating on swamp 'oils'...
    • More of nature's paintings...
    • Artists look different
    • Shark finning still a problem
    • New ice images and crazy Michigan
    • Finally...Barred Owl in the clear
    • You can't be creative in Photoshop?
    • Isle Royale wolves and moose
    • New three-legged friend
    • Using the new to recreate the old
    • Luminosity mask junkie
    • Nature's paintings
  • ► February (10)
    • May the sea act swiftly...
    • 1980 Canyon in 110 format
    • Seeing the light with Lightroom
    • Art vs. craft
    • Sandwich islands
    • Unrelated efforts
    • intrigued by bark
    • Archival backup media
    • Nicole Rowell Ryan interviewed by Sierra Club
    • Blog updates, enhancements
  • ► January (5)
    • Luck over perseverance?
    • First wild Snowy
    • Hunting for frozen raindrops
    • Can changing your light bulbs save polar bears?
    • New visions, new year
• ► 2006 (75)
  • ► December (6)
    • Forests Forever
    • How many birds is this?
    • Photoshop 10.0 is coming (CS3)
    • Another war that needs attention...
    • Adding image number 1297
    • Parallels on artistic endeavors
  • ► November (4)
    • Upgrading your main hard drive & the right tools
    • Season of textures
    • Interesting balloon shadow
    • Return from a far away woods...not that different
  • ► October (5)
    • Digging instead of shooting
    • Great summary of fine art papers
    • Simplicity
    • Fall Close to home
    • Moment, chance, and making the best of an opportunity
  • ► September (7)
    • Wondering about rocks
    • Journey through time
    • Inline Maps
    • Rugged coast of Lake Superior
    • Rocks rock!
    • In good company...
    • Pictured Rocks
  • ► August (5)
    • Stumbling and new photography podcasts
    • Bear petition
    • Will technology save our images?
    • Collages of nature
    • Signs of global warming at -112°F
  • ► July (9)
    • Releasing the image spirit
    • added a quote collection
    • Changing landscape
    • Listen to your mom
    • No photography day?
    • Compositionally friendly subjects
    • Gallery back up
    • Gallery will be offline
    • When color is a distraction
  • ► June (9)
    • Pix Channel
    • Unprecedented action by Spain
    • The Process
    • Adding more new 'old' images...
    • Showy Lady Slippers in full bloom this weekend
    • Rare finds
    • Lupine past bloom
    • Love and hate technology
    • Inconvenient truth
  • ► May (12)
    • Unique settings for common subjects
    • When is an image complete?
    • Your most prized possession?
    • Thinking about twilight
    • Discovery of forgotten images...
    • Endangered Species Day
    • Coming home empty handed...
    • Spring warbler migration in full swing!
    • Endangered Species day is May 11
    • Reflection of twilight
    • Sandhill chicks
    • Wordpress plugin for events?
  • ► April (8)
    • Sandhill crane nestling
    • Sandhill cranes
    • New wildflower area but no fox
    • Namibia dreams...
    • Creating a visual vocabulary
    • Earth Day 2006
    • Spring energy
    • Radiant Vista
  • ► March (6)
    • New featured image
    • Virtual exploring
    • Photoshop Tip - Correcting Chromatic Abberations
    • NASA World Wind
    • The wait ended today...
    • Dominica images are up...
  • ► February (2)
    • More Dominica comments
    • Return from Dominica
  • ► January (2)
    • Optimizing Photoshop
    • Happy New Year and new gallery
• ► 2005 (27)
  • ► November (2)
    • New article - digital shoe box?
    • Digital whining again...
  • ► October (2)
    • Fall Color Trip - Days 2-5
    • Fall Color trip 2005 - Day 1
  • ► September (1)
    • New images 9/11
  • ► July (1)
    • Audio for the photographer
  • ► June (6)
    • Kayak arrived
    • Trademark
    • Frames
    • Eluded again!
    • The whale is a fox
    • Kayak ordered!
  • ► May (1)
    • Warbler season
  • ► April (3)
    • April snowstorm
    • Hepatica & D2X
    • New Featured Image
  • ► March (4)
    • Detroit News article
    • What is Hyperfocal Distance and Why Should I Care?
    • New gallery images
    • In memory...
  • ► February (2)
    • Perils and addictions
    • Nikon D2X Reviewed
  • ► January (5)
    • Ice images
    • Good read...
    • Rhetoric and hyperbole in photo equipment
    • Site tweaks
    • Dusting off more images
• ► 2004 (18)
  • ► December (2)
    • New Images
    • Image additions 12/5/04
  • ► November (4)
    • TidBITS: Sense & Sensors in Digital Photography
    • Jasper Woods
    • Aurora Predictions - Custom longitude maps for your location
    • LensWork Audio Blog Commentaries by Brooks Jensen
  • ► October (4)
    • Birding Babylon
    • Featured Image #18
    • Being free of style?
    • Fall in Michigan
  • ► September (2)
    • Site Redesign
    • Updates...
  • ► August (1)
    • Point Mouillee
  • ► July (5)
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    • La Jolla Pics
    • Holland Ponds on 7/18
    • The nature photographers' conundrum
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