The sun keeps peeking through the clouds. It’s a typical fall day. Lots of muted oranges and reds. It’s with great sadness that we announce the passing of Bob Wellborn. The picture below to the right, was taken in 1961, Beach House toga party.
A playful post for an October Monday, returning to still-above-average, but closer-to-average temps. Sometimes it’s fun to play with optics in a familiar place such as Fishtown. Three of today’s images are of a glass sphere, which captures its surroundings and presents them upside-down. So yes, the backgrounds are inverted to make the foregrounds inside the sphere, right side up. I… Read more »
A magnificent early October. A whisper of northern lights showed very early on Saturday morning. The Big Dipper hangs in the sky above Whaleback in the top photo. Today is a beautiful, mild day.
Today’s photographs are made possibly by boats! Just after the pre-dawn (below), the 1,000-footer Stewart J. Cort moved northward through the passage, passing beneath the rising sun (top). We saw the sunrise on Sunday from the North Manitou side of the passage, which is a treat. On Saturday, I joined the crew of the Joy (the camera stayed in… Read more »
An amazing Monday morning! Check out the Leland Harbor Dredging Time-lapse in the Projects page!
A tranquil morning here. We’re thinking of friends and family in the stormy, windy, firey corners of our country. A special thanks today to those who serve as firemen and first responders – for everything they’re doing today and what they have done in the past. Sixteen years ago this morning, I was working in Washington, D.C. at the Department… Read more »
Looking across to Windsor, Canada, on Labor Day morning (top photo). The William G. Milliken State Harbor offers this view, punctuated by a barge heading downriver. By sunset, I was back home to join the crowd gathered at Good Harbor Beach/651 to watch the sun set in a “non-summer” point on the horizon. Detroit offered a whole host of… Read more »
Cloudy today… and you know that it is approaching Fall when the sun comes up later and later. Saturday was superb this past weekend – an inviting day to be out on the Manitou Passage.
The sunset mid-week last week caught the light through the Fresnel lens at the Cannery at Glen Haven. It’s this sort of alignment, with light shining through a transparent object at just the right angle, that brings to mind another alignment that many will seek to see on Monday: the solar eclipse. (Meggen is in the totality zone today,… Read more »
One of the hidden gems in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is Tucker Lake. It’s a quiet place to paddle (no motors allowed), listen to the birds, see an occasional eagle or loon, and admire the numerous lilies. I’m also sharing a favorite of the Joy from this week.