How Quickly Things Change

One of the reasons I love making photographs is the connection that I feel with nature and the seasons. Even when I’m not fond of a season (like winter) I find beauty in it anyway. Tuesday, on an 80 degree late October day I was marveling at the warmth and beauty all around me. Yesterday I took a walk in the park next to our house photographing the ordinary beauty of the late season colors. Today I’m watching the beauty of a snow covered landscape and marveling at How Quickly Things Change in nature and in life. When it’s over, Read more…

Beautiful Contradictions

, This time of year I am filled with so many contradictory feelings about the season. On one hand I see such astonishing beauty, even as more and more of the trees’ leaves fall to the ground,. On the other hand I dread the long months of bare branches and cold weather ahead. I have loved the warm gentle autumn we have had this year. And at the same time it raises my concerns over how quickly climate change is occurring. The more I ponder life, love, and loss the more I believe that life is filled with Beautiful Contradictions Read more…

From Dust to Dust

Here is my third photo and essay for the photo project I recently began working on… From Dust to Dust I spend a lot of time hiking in the woods at a scientific and natural area near where I live. In this remnant of the big woods that once covered a large swath of Minnesota, tall sugar maples, oaks, and basswood trees live. When a tree falls in these woods the DNR leaves the tree where it fell unless it is blocking a hiking path. If necessary they clear the path but leave the rest of the fallen tree where Read more…

So Much Beauty

Yesterday I took a walk in the park that’s right next door and found So much beauty! I didn’t bring my camera with me on that walk, only my phone. And it was enough — no, more than enough. I’ve begun making more photos with my phone than ever before (I got a newer model of iPhone this year). I’m amazed at the quality of the images. Though I love using my Canon R6 Mark II camera, I’m using my phone more and more to make photographs on short walks in the neighborhood and sometimes when I go out in Read more…

Big Woods Wonder

Last week I visited one of my favorite places. The colors were popping, the weather was fine, and walking under the tall trees that grow there filled me with Big Woods Wonder. I’ve shared photos of these woods often, usually from springtime when the canopy is just beginning to fill in or from autumn when the leaves are turning shades of red, orange, and gold. These woods are one of my favorite places to spend time in the spring and fall. (Summer brings too many mosquitoes to spend much time there.) Today I am simply sharing some of my favorite Read more…