Last Spring my friend and (fabulous) fellow artist, Dianne Shullenberger, and I mounted a show at the Gruppe Gallery entitled “What Did the Rock Say?” Both of us were delighted…
The dunes are full of roots—grasses and sedges as well as trees and shrubs. As sand shifts with the wind, these plants are often covered or their roots uncovered.…
The sand dunes are a great big canvas on which the sun, rain and wind, shadows, weeds and roots, and animals large and small work together to create the most…
Lake Michigan…blue skies, warm water, wonderful breeze…and then the last two nights, the crescent moon setting over the water, something I’ve never seen (or at least noticed) before! The “photo” I…
So much of what I see is filtered by a brain long conditioned to recognize patterns. If that were not the case, my bet is every day would be a…
On the first morning I had a chance to visit the dunes at Ludington State Park several weeks ago everything was covered in heavy dew. I was soaked to the waist…
There are few places as special to me as the sand dunes along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan at dawn—regardless of weather or the time of year. I love the…
I find it easy to lose track of time—both minutes and eons—when I’m in the dunes. More important are the light, wind and the stillness in which quiet can be…
The dunes of Lake Michigan are always a magical spot. Whether arriving at dawn in quiet, golden light or on the tail end of an immense storm, there are few…
It is not unusual, when people see some of my photographs, especially the abstracts, for them to ask “What is that?!” or, a bit more politely, “Where was that taken?”…
Still Learning To See 