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• ►2004 (18)
  • ►July (5)
    • New Blog
    • The nature photographers' conundrum
    • Holland Ponds on 7/18
    • La Jolla Pics
    • Good Advice
  • ►August (1)
    • Point Mouillee
  • ►September (2)
    • Updates...
    • Site Redesign
  • ►October (4)
    • Fall in Michigan
    • Being free of style?
    • Featured Image #18
    • Birding Babylon
  • ►November (4)
    • LensWork Audio Blog Commentaries by Brooks Jensen
    • Aurora Predictions - Custom longitude maps for your location
    • Jasper Woods
    • TidBITS: Sense & Sensors in Digital Photography
  • ►December (2)
    • Image additions 12/5/04
    • New Images
• ►2005 (27)
  • ►January (5)
    • Dusting off more images
    • Site tweaks
    • Rhetoric and hyperbole in photo equipment
    • Good read...
    • Ice images
  • ►February (2)
    • Nikon D2X Reviewed
    • Perils and addictions
  • ►March (4)
    • In memory...
    • New gallery images
    • What is Hyperfocal Distance and Why Should I Care?
    • Detroit News article
  • ►April (3)
    • New Featured Image
    • Hepatica & D2X
    • April snowstorm
  • ►May (1)
    • Warbler season
  • ►June (6)
    • Kayak ordered!
    • The whale is a fox
    • Eluded again!
    • Frames
    • Trademark
    • Kayak arrived
  • ►July (1)
    • Audio for the photographer
  • ►September (1)
    • New images 9/11
  • ►October (2)
    • Fall Color trip 2005 - Day 1
    • Fall Color Trip - Days 2-5
  • ►November (2)
    • Digital whining again...
    • New article - digital shoe box?
• ►2006 (74)
  • ►January (2)
    • Happy New Year and new gallery
    • Optimizing Photoshop
  • ►February (2)
    • Return from Dominica
    • More Dominica comments
  • ►March (6)
    • Dominica images are up...
    • The wait ended today...
    • NASA World Wind
    • Photoshop Tip - Correcting Chromatic Abberations
    • Virtual exploring
    • New featured image
  • ►April (7)
    • Spring energy
    • Earth Day 2006
    • Creating a visual vocabulary
    • Namibia dreams...
    • New wildflower area but no fox
    • Sandhill cranes
    • Sandhill crane nestling
  • ►May (12)
    • Wordpress plugin for events?
    • Sandhill chicks
    • Reflection of twilight
    • Endangered Species day is May 11
    • Spring warbler migration in full swing!
    • Coming home empty handed...
    • Endangered Species Day
    • Discovery of forgotten images...
    • Thinking about twilight
    • Your most prized possession?
    • When is an image complete?
    • Unique settings for common subjects
  • ►June (9)
    • Inconvenient truth
    • Love and hate technology
    • Lupine past bloom
    • Rare finds
    • Showy Lady Slippers in full bloom this weekend
    • Adding more new 'old' images...
    • The Process
    • Unprecedented action by Spain
    • Pix Channel
  • ►July (9)
    • When color is a distraction
    • Gallery will be offline
    • Gallery back up
    • Compositionally friendly subjects
    • No photography day?
    • Listen to your mom
    • Changing landscape
    • added a quote collection
    • Releasing the image spirit
  • ►August (5)
    • Signs of global warming at -112Â.°F
    • Collages of nature
    • Will technology save our images?
    • Bear petition
    • Stumbling and new photography podcasts
  • ►September (7)
    • Pictured Rocks
    • In good company...
    • Rocks rock!
    • Rugged coast of Lake Superior
    • Inline Maps
    • Journey through time
    • Wondering about rocks
  • ►October (5)
    • Moment, chance, and making the best of an opportunity
    • Fall Close to home
    • Simplicity
    • Great summary of fine art papers
    • Digging instead of shooting
  • ►November (4)
    • Return from a far away woods...not that different
    • Interesting balloon shadow
    • Season of textures
    • Upgrading your main hard drive & the right tools
  • ►December (6)
    • Parallels on artistic endeavors
    • Adding image number 1297
    • Another war that needs attention...
    • Photoshop 10.0 is coming (CS3)
    • How many birds is this?
    • Forests Forever
• ►2007 (122)
  • ►January (5)
    • New visions, new year
    • Can changing your light bulbs save polar bears?
    • Hunting for frozen raindrops
    • First wild Snowy
    • Luck over perseverance?
  • ►February (10)
    • Blog updates, enhancements
    • Nicole Rowell Ryan interviewed by Sierra Club
    • Archival backup media
    • intrigued by bark
    • Unrelated efforts
    • Sandwich islands
    • Art vs. craft
    • Seeing the light with Lightroom
    • 1980 Canyon in 110 format
    • May the sea act swiftly...
  • ►March (17)
    • Nature's paintings
    • Luminosity mask junkie
    • Using the new to recreate the old
    • New three-legged friend
    • Isle Royale wolves and moose
    • You can't be creative in Photoshop?
    • Finally...Barred Owl in the clear
    • New ice images and crazy Michigan
    • Shark finning still a problem
    • Artists look different
    • More of nature's paintings...
    • More investigating on swamp 'oils'...
    • Colbert and the bear
    • Negative space, shapes, and diversity
    • Thank you for your support!!
    • Snacks in the woods
    • Choose your battles wisely
  • ►April (10)
    • Most annoying photo critique comments
    • I wanted it small in the frame!
    • Red-throated loon
    • When do you have enough?
    • Visual balance and the meadowlark
    • Alien Ice
    • Most expensive photographs, and today?
    • Hepatica from the archives
    • Alternate pursuits and talents
    • Looking at Trillium in different ways
  • ►May (10)
    • Respect and gift of trust
    • Late for a leaf and light
    • Going for the glow - rotate yourself
    • Color and color alone
    • Cramming a subject into a style box
    • Endangered Species Day
    • The opportunity at last
    • Relaxing at the den
    • The black background
    • Contrasting portrayals in processing
  • ►June (9)
    • Edgy detours to Spring
    • Shaking the trees
    • A day inside
    • Safari for Windows - looks good!
    • Songs of Insects
    • Don't ignore your own yard...
    • Eye of the Swamp
    • Down time?
    • Standing tall
  • ►July (12)
    • Technostress
    • Excessive resources; return from banishment
    • You will burn your eye out kid
    • Protect your images with watermarks
    • Seeing and letting go
    • Pure Michigan
    • Sunny days? No thanks...
    • Chinny
    • Black and white bird photography
    • Bearing with our impacts
    • Detroiter
    • Wildlife news
  • ►August (11)
    • Tahquamenon Bay | Lake Superior
    • The allure of the beach
    • Photography of sand, water & time
    • Magic, Mystery and appreciation
    • Mind melding
    • Firewire 800 upgrades
    • The Dark age of Digital Printing
    • Inspiration and fermentation
    • Gallery Canvas Panels
    • Nature Photography page 1
    • Applying formulas
  • ►September (10)
    • Wetpixel Quarterly and missing underwater
    • Delicate rose
    • Just another box of cereal
    • The Great Paper Chase
    • The Education of a Photographer
    • Creative currency
    • Dreaming of fall
    • Its final form...JPEG, slide, or print?
    • Milkweed photography | pictures | photos
    • Shoot first, ID later
  • ►October (7)
    • Saturated with information
    • In search of symbiotic subjects
    • Signing photographs
    • Five things I hate about nature
    • Trying new things from a neck pillow
    • $1,375 per gallon
    • Water versus Rock
  • ►November (10)
    • Rain, rivers, and unexpected finds
    • Wood duck pictures | photos | photography
    • Contemplating switch to Mac
    • Landscape photography tools
    • If I only had one lens...
    • Organization and Legacy
    • Finding harmony in a leaf pile
    • After the leaves have fallen...
    • Crossroads
    • What is your box?
  • ►December (11)
    • Winter twilight
    • The Mac wait
    • Generate more traffic for your blog
    • Presets and playgrounds
    • Blue Iris - Color of the Year 2008
    • Natural snow tree skirts
    • Moods and seeing
    • Season's Greetings!
    • The way things are...according to us
    • Underwater pictures
    • Reflections on images of 2007
• ►2008 (83)
  • ►January (9)
    • Powdered Sugar Bomb explodes in Michigan!
    • Snow - the great simplifier
    • PC Hell
    • Still here, ups and downs
    • Wildlife closeups
    • Ducks and backups
    • The Mac Experience - part 1
    • Inspired by stone
    • Sierra Club notecards
  • ►February (9)
    • Pietersite macro art
    • New to create the old
    • The most commonly taken bird photo
    • The Mac Experience - part 2
    • The Mac Experience - Part 3
    • Happy Birthday Photoshop & Lightroom!
    • Rose Plume Agate & Pietersite
    • The Mac Experience - Part 4
    • End of an era
  • ►March (9)
    • Winter go away
    • Seeing stones
    • First Blackbird
    • Outsourcing
    • A pocket full of rulers
    • What's in a name?
    • New look
    • Inspired by Stone project continues
    • Monochrome Birds and Lightroom Presets
  • ►April (9)
    • Pictured Rocks photos
    • Great Blue herons building nest
    • The Light in the Air
    • Color Explosions and Rock Habits
    • Large Prints
    • Bloodroot pictures
    • Spring Wildflowers in bloom
    • Better than the real thing
    • A Photo Editor's dream?
  • ►May (7)
    • Do what you say you will do
    • Dry Mounting
    • Human spamming scum
    • Association with the familiar
    • New rock abstract pictures
    • Green photographic papers
    • Picasso Marble
  • ►June (6)
    • Fill the frame - down the drain
    • Words of wisdom on creativity
    • Playing with HDR
    • Idea to Image Series
    • Overdue dust cleaning!
    • Embracing failure
  • ►July (7)
    • More playing with HDR
    • How far down the rabbit hole will you go?
    • Underlying mysteries
    • Art E-cards
    • Epson 4800 Maintenance tank
    • iPhone recognition
    • Lensbaby wildlife
  • ►August (6)
    • Different bird pictures
    • The Burden
    • Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
    • Not always a pretty picture
    • Gallery Down
    • Rock Patterns big and small
  • ►September (4)
    • Tiger iron abstracts
    • A photograph's genome?
    • In the zone?
    • Unexpected suprises
  • ►October (6)
    • Whew! Wordpress upgrade OK
    • It's what we do
    • Color IQ
    • Looking up, down, and within
    • Accessibility and Communication
    • Radiant Vista
  • ►November (6)
    • Be a bender
    • Red x?
    • Textured photographs
    • Have you hugged your 61 trees?
    • Greener Photography member
    • New Sensor ranking site
  • ►December (5)
    • Stone Windows
    • Color of the Year 2009: Mimosa!
    • Gravatars added
    • Emerald waterfall: Winter distraction
    • Shorebird photos
• ▼2009 (3)
  • ▼January (3)
    • Catching up
    • Looking forward and back
    • Ice Pattern photos

 

 

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