In January, I wrote about how I thought that Photography is Curiosity, Creativity, Math, Science and Imagination. When I wrote that article I said that photography is much more than those five things. Keeping that in mind, photography is also exploration, discovery and reward. When you explore and discovery, you’re photography pursuits (and life in…

With the massive amounts of snow that we’ve gotten over the last few days, it’s hard to think back about November. November is always about changes. The land starts to freeze and then it thaws and then it freezes. It’s a fun, but challenging time for photography, especially because your hands start to get cold…

Typically, October is a month of rest and recovery and calm in the northwoods. Grand Marais gets slow, the woods change from showy to a state of waiting for winter. It gets easy to find a seat in a restaurant and the weather is great. It wasn’t a calm month for me though. I ran…

Over the last week, I’ve been looking back at the photos I took in 2012 trying to identify my best images of the year and my favorite images of the year. I also compared this year’s photos to last year to see how my style has changed (and it has changed!). My pictures in 2012…

Recently, someone asked about predicting waves on Lake Superior, “How exactly would a person know what the waves are like up there? I am in the Cities and have been dying to see big waves.” Predicting waves on Lake Superior Predicting waves on Lake Superior is the black art of weather prediction. Briefly, on the north…