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Feb

Up North

In Michigan, pretty much everywhere you go is “Up North.” I’ve even jokingly said sometimes going south is considered “Up North.” But when you hop in your buddy Farina’s car and travel three hours up the righthand side of Michigan’s mitten, you’re definitely Up North — no air quotes needed.

I took this amazing and beautiful sky photo — appropriately — exactly 30 years after our amazing and beautiful daughter Skye was born.

Dec

My Favorite Pictures Of The Year

After snapping this photo on Piha Beach at the edge of the world in New Zealand, I went up to the family who was wondering why I was taking pictures of a puddle on the beach. They loved the photo and I happily emailed it to them. A week later, this beach town was devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle.

Sep

Destination Wedding: Vermont

We had a great opportunity to photograph a wedding in Vermont, so we traveled to New England and spent a beautiful, long weekend with all the family’s kith and kin.

The bride and flower girl relax before the ceremony.Read More

Mar

The Stars of the Southern Hemisphere

Notes From Down Under

My wife, Marci, holds reasonably still for a 30-second-long time exposure on my iPhone, kinda/sorta secured to a selfie stick with a plastic tripod bottom. That’s the Milky Way as seen from Down Under in Collingwood, NZ.

“My dad would’ve LOVED these views.”

That’s one of the thoughts, emotions really, that ran through my head each time I looked up at the New Zealand heavens.

Mar

Never, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, Go Into a Cave With a Photographer

Notes From Down Under

Be afraid; be very afraid!

If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk. Likewise, if you go into a cave with a photographer, he’s going to ask you to pose. And you’ll likely be trapped underground indefinitely.

Feb

Greetings From The Edge Of The World

Notes from Down Under

After snapping this photo, I went up to the family who were wondering why I was taking pictures of a puddle on the beach. They loved the photo and I happily emailed it to them. A week later, this beach town was devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle.

The joke goes something like this, no matter where we go in New Zealand, chaos soon follows.

Aug

Scenic Scotland

“When the heart is full the tongue will speak.”

— Scottish proverb

Please allow me to change just one word of the proverb, from tongue to camera. I have had the unbelievable luck to have visited Scotland three times in my adult life. And though I’ve written much about it in the past, this time, I’ll let my favorite photos do the tongue wagging. May Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon beckon you to wander here also.

On one of our last nights in Scotland, I managed to stick my iPhone a few inches out of my hotel window and snap this dramatic picture of the sun setting over Inverness, reflected in the hotel window.
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Oct

FedRex

Since our granddoggy Rex loves bringing in the mail so much, we got him a mail dog outfit to make it official.

Jun

Virtual Head Peace

I’m done with reality. Read More

May

A Funeral For a Friend’s Father

Before the funeral, he is curled up in a little ball on his daughter’s bed. Outside, Saturday happens. Lawnmowers whine, trucks bang by; his subdivision is subdivided.

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We had a great opportunity to photograph a wedding in Vermont, so we traveled to New England and spent a beautiful, long weekend with all the family’s kith and kin.

Notes From Down Under

“My dad would’ve LOVED these views.”

That’s one of the thoughts, emotions really, that ran through my head each time I looked up at the New Zealand heavens.

Notes From Down Under

If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk. Likewise, if you go into a cave with a photographer, he’s going to ask you to pose. And you’ll likely be trapped underground indefinitely.

Notes from Down Under

The joke goes something like this, no matter where we go in New Zealand, chaos soon follows.

“When the heart is full the tongue will speak.”

— Scottish proverb

On one of our last nights in Scotland, I managed to stick my iPhone a few inches out of my hotel window and snap this dramatic picture of the sun setting over Inverness, reflected in the hotel window. Read More

Since our granddoggy Rex loves bringing in the mail so much, we got him a mail dog outfit to make it official.

I’m done with reality. Read More

Before the funeral, he is curled up in a little ball on his daughter’s bed. Outside, Saturday happens. Lawnmowers whine, trucks bang by; his subdivision is subdivided.

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On one of our last nights in Scotland, I managed to stick my iPhone a few inches out of my hotel window and snap this dramatic picture of the sun setting over Inverness, reflected in the hotel window.
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