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Work has started up for me back in Michigan, but thankfully the marina where I work closes at 6, which means I have plenty of time to go out and take pictures (the sun doesn't set here until almost 9:30). On the other hand, it means less time to be out shooting and (more importantly) processing pictures, so blog posts may be slightly spaced out now. And of course, there are some days when I just don't have the motivation to go out and shoot. Right now, for instance, I'm watching one of the most spectacular sunsets I've seen since I got back from my window, but I honestly just didn't have the energy to lug all my camera gear out to the other side of the county and photograph it. The fact that it's about 50 degrees out and windy doesn't help matters.  All pictures in this post were taken with an Olympus E-620 and Zuiko 9-18mm f/4-5,6 or 70-300mm f/4-5,6 Whaleback I've been out twice since my last post, with mixed results. My first trip was to ...

Evening at the Sand Meadows I got back to Michigan on Monday night, and I thankfully have a few days of rest to enjoy until my summer job starts. Since this is most likely going to be my final summer in Leelanau County, I'm going to try and make the most of it, photographically as well as in other ways.  Yesterday I made my first outing to the Sleeping Bear Dunes, also known as the whole reason people know Leelanau exists. It recently got put on National Geographic's list of top places to visit this summer, and was declared the most beautiful place in the world by Good Morning America last year, so this year it's going to be absolutely crawling with tourists. Great for the local economy, not so much for nature photographers. I decided I should explore one of the less-touristed areas of the Dunes, to have more "nature-y" pictures. The Sand Meadows is literally just around the point from the vastly popular Pyramid Point, but it's rarely visited, mos...

Snake Mountain A couple of weeks ago, my friends Emma and Lenora from Michigan came to Vermont to visit, along with a friend of theirs from Canada. Naturally, we decided that the best way to spend our time together would be to do a couple of hikes. Snake Mountain is probably the most popular hiking spot in the Middlebury area, and I sometimes felt like I was the only person at Middlebury who hadn't climbed it. Now that we were in possession of a car, I was quick to jump on the opportunity.  All pictures are taken with an Olympus E-620 and either a Zuiko 9-18mm f/4-5,6 or 70-300mm f/4-5,6. Soft Green- 9-18mm, GND filter Given how spectacular the view at the top is, the hike itself is extremely easy. The first part is a little muddy, but for the most part it's just a gentle uphill slope through rolling beech-maple woods.  Intimate Woodland Scene- 70-300mm Into the Sun- 9-18mm, GND filter Outsider- 9-18mm  Of course I can never resist trillium ...

Trilliums at Middlebury Well, welcome to my new photo blog! This is just an experiment in different ways to show my photography, and talk a little more about how I view the world through my camera. Formatting this thing is completely new to me, so bear with me should there be any drastic changes.  I'm making my first post about a set I photographed about a month ago, when Vermont was just starting to thaw out from an underwhelming but drawn-out winter. Trilliums are some of my favorite flowers back in Michigan, and for whatever reason it was surprising to me to see them out east as well. I resolved to photograph them, and eventually I had little enough homework I could pretend I had time, so I packed my camera and went down to the woods downhill of my dorm. All pictures in this entry were taken with an Olympus E-620 and either a Zuiko 70-300 f/4-5,6 or 9-18 f/4-5.6 lens. The difference should be fairly self-evident. ...and may or may not have gotten...