I didn’t have enough local knowledge, or at least, preferences, so I asked Martin & Peter to select a good place to hike near to York, and they chose Sutton Bank. We discovered the trail from the visitor centre led to what a few years back was voted by »
It being Sunday, I had checked that the bus and ferry would actually be running. I hadn’t checked how often the bus was running, and so when I didn’t get moving fast enough, I found myself with an hour and half wait for the next bus. The bus itself »
I traveled down to see my friend Paul. He had been making various experiments and discoveries regarding how our vision works with how we print, and how to prepare files accordingly for printing. How people see, and how it relates to all we do with our photographs, is a »
Another trip to Soul Studio with Jill. Further research had shown not too much further away The Nature Sanctuary run by the City of Orchard Lake. Smaller than the West Bloomfield Nature Reserve but just as wooded and I found a nice pond to »
Jill has started volunteering at Soul Studio in West Bloomfield. Just one day a week, but the journey can be horrific, involving multiple freeways; so bad in fact, she was having to contemplate abandoning the whole idea. I offered to chauffeur her, and today was the first »
The last few days we’ve been over on the west side of the state, staying at our friend’s family’s farmhouse. It rained most of the way there, and most of the first day; whereas I’d been managing a page or two of the book I was reading about coyotes »
The idea of this trip was borne in part out of the frustrations of my previous trip while taking a long detour drive because the hike I’d planned proved too challenging that day and I was having all this trouble finding accommodation and I pulled the car over for »
It seems I haven’t really made all that many photographs in Ann Arbor this year, not even in our garden. The way my hands hurt in the cold can increase my reluctance to just get out and wander around Ann Arbor as I might have done some years back. »
There are a variety of ways to take the photographs to use to make a composite, panorama photograph, and a variety of software options to stitch the frames together and deal with any problems; plus there are a number of ratios you can crop the result to, or you »
As a warm up for my trip to Scotland next week, I was out yesterday in Black Pond Woods at LSNC. There was a lot