Points of Light
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Into the sun
Follow the path into the clearing. The sun is waiting.
Blending of two exposures in Photoshop.
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Autumn dawn
Restless geese take flight at dawn.
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Moonrise
The full moon rises over Lake Michigan as rolling waves wash over the remnant of a pier.
Added to the "Cream of the Crop" pool as my best shot of 2006.
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Waiting for dawn
The new year dawns at the Sturgeon Bay Canal Light in Door County, Wisconsin. Hope yours is a good one.
Selected as Photo of the Day at EarthShots.com, January 4, 2008.
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Barn in winter
Just outside the grip of the Chicago metroplex, but not outside the grip of Old Man Winter.
More about snow, snowmakers and the complexity of this simple substance on my photo blog, Points of Light.
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Moonrise at Cave Point
Chunks of ice in the waters of Lake Michigan create shifting reflection patterns of moonlight past the snow covered cliffs of Cave Point in Door County, Wisconsin.
Yes it was cold. Very cold.
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A Queen Anne kind of sky
A field of dried and brown Queen Anne's lace sits under a sky that reveals what their delicate tufts of white used to look like on earth.
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Cornfield sunset
The setting sun paints the sky beyond a cornfield in northern Illinois. A blended shot of two exposures - one for the sky and one for the cornfield - blended in Photo Shop. Poor man's HDR.
An earlier attempt at shot blending can be found here.
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Guiding lights
The full moon rises behind the lighthouse on Cana Island in Door County, Wisconsin.
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-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as "Personal favorite."
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A perfect world
Imagine a world in perfect symmetrical balance, all imperfections obscured. Like the fog and snow around the Midwest today, it won't last long.
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Night station
Big Timber commuter rail station at night, Elgin, Illinois.
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Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as "Most interesting."
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Destination
Can you get there from here?
Read a little more about the making of this image on my photo blog, Points of Light.
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Journeys
Wishing you a wonderful and rewarding journey in the year 2007. Happy New year!
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Harbor of refuge
The evening falls on the marina in Racine, Wisconsin. Blend of three exposures to increase tonal range in the final image.
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Kewaunee mist
Icy winds create a mist over the water of Lake Michigan near Kewaunee Wisconsin. Arctic winds passing over the warmer lake waters picked up the moisture and dumped it on Michigan on the other side of the lake as a blinding snowstorm - you can see the clouds forming in the distance.
This photo was selected Photo of the Day at Earthshots.org for February 9, 2007.
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String of pearls
Morning dew on a spider web. More on my photo blog, Points of Light
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Snow lines
If autumn is when God?s palette is worked to the limit, then winter is when the whole scene is painted over in white and begun again.
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Storm panorama
An intense thunderstorm rolls into Brownsburg, Indiana at sunset. Click "All sizes" for a larger view. Number 99 out of 500 selected for the Flickr Explore pages on April 1, 2006.
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Transcendence
I woke up this morning in a fog, so I took some pictures of it.
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First snow
The results of the first snowfall here around Elgin, Illinois. Autumn has ended. Winter has begun.
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Defiance Lake sunset
At Moraine Hills State Park in McHenry, Illinois. Blended photo of three exposures to increase dynamic range.
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Clingman's Dome sunset
A view of the Great Smoky Mountains and sunset from the summit of Clingman's Dome.
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Inner light
An experiment in positioning the sun behind a morning glory blossom.
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Morning cows
The watcher becomes the watched as cows gather to see what the crazy guy with the camera is up to.
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(Number 460 of 500 on the Flickr Explore pages, April 3, 2006)
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Nightfall
Photo number 105 out of 500 selected for the Flickr Explore page on March 20, 2006.
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Blue morning
The lighthouse at Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
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Golden pond
Morning breaks above a fog-shrouded pond. Stillness and repose as the golden slumber fades away. More on my photo blog, Points of Light
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Petals of flame
Gerbera daisy, taken with a Kodak EasyShare point and shoot.
Happy Mother's Day!
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The night country
A crescent moon sets over a glacial kame near Huntley, Illinois. Blended photo of two exposures.
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Two worlds
Night and day pass each other as one arrives and one departs
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Nelson Point sunset
Sunset at Nelson Point, Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin.
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A fish out of water
The beach and sky, the cloud formation and the stars came from three separate photos combined in Photo Shop. While strolling through Racine Wisconsin, I noticed a cloud formation that bore a striking resemblance to an angelfish, so I snapped it quickly hoping to find a use for it sometime. This image is that use - the beach and sky photo, while pleasing, just seemed to lack a certain something. The fish cloud supplies that certain something.
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Firmaments
The earth, the sea, the sun, the sky, the stars. And us at the bottom of it all looking upward and outward. Combination of two photos (Sunset in South Haven, Michigan and Starry Night in Door County, Wisconsin).
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Four eyes
A jumping spider, shot with a lens reversal technique for an ultra close macro.
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