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sunny thistle ~ Michigan
Eeyore's favorite food; also, ancient Celtic symbol of nobility of character and birth
thistlesunnyMichiganWashtenaw CountyNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIflowerbloomfields
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cosmos ~ Michigan
"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question." ~ Harun Yahya
Garden CosmosCosmos bipinnatusMichiganflowerbloomblossomgardenAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IINikon D7100pink
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American Goldfinch ~ Spinus tristis ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spinus tristisAmerican GoldfinchbirdMichiganContinental United StatesHuron RiverNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIyellowperching birdbalance
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ancient bridge ~ Mill Creek Park, Ohio ~ road trip to Ohio
Scenes of Mill Creek Park, founded 1891 in Youngstown, Ohio, appear every so often in my dad's home movies. When I was much younger, we routinely met for summer family reunions there, and so I have many fond memories of playing with my cousins, with fairly reckless abandon, at verdant Mill Creek. This is one of the oldest bridges in the park. Although my paternal grandpa and grandma and my dad's three brothers were all born in Pennsylvania ~ Potter, Indiana and Bradford/McKean counties ~ my dad, the youngest of the brothers, was born in Youngstown. Photo Summer 2012
lightcolorOhiobridgeMill Creek ParkYoungstowncreekreflectionswaterhistoricaloldstone bridgeNikon D80AFS DX ZoomNikkor 18135mm f3.55.6G IFEDContinental United Statescover
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Brown Pelicans ~ Pelecanus occidentals ~ Southern Outer Banks
"I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Pelecanus occidentalisBrown PelicanbirdsinflightbirdwateroceanAtlanticSOBXSouthern Outer BanksNorth CarolinaPine Knoll ShoresCrystal CoastBogue BanksAtlantic Oceancoastcoastal watersducklike birdpelicanNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIislandContinental United Statesbarrier islandinflight
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dancing in the forest light ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
bloomblossomforestarboretumdelicateMichiganwildflowerCow parsleylightNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIContinental United StatesfloraAnthriscus sylvestrisWild ChervilQueen Anne's Lacewild beaked parsleykeckflower
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Sanderling ~ Calidris alba ~ Lake Michigan
"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved." ~ Ansel Adams
AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IINikon D7100MichiganbirdsanderlingOld SaugatuckLake MichiganshorebirdbirdinflightContinental United StatesCalidris albainflight
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Brown Pelican ~ Pelecanus occidentals ~ Southern Outer Banks
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." ~ Charles Dickens
Pelecanus occidentalisBrown PelicanbirdsinflightbirdwateroceanAtlanticSOBXSouthern Outer BanksNorth CarolinaPine Knoll ShoresCrystal CoastBogue BanksAtlantic Oceancoastcoastal watersducklike birdpelicanNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIislandContinental United Statesbarrier islandinflightchallenge
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a moment in the life of a lily ~ Huron River. Michigan
“Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.” ~ Khalil Gibran
daylilyMichiganHudson MillsbloomblossomflowerorangeNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIContinental United StatesHuron River
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Ring-billed Gull ~ Larus delawarensis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"A place to rest, maybe linger awhile
With those who've been, and those who'll be,
With nature and me." ~ Jo ReussRingbilled gullNorth CarolinaPine Knoll ShoresCrystal CoastislandBogue BanksAtlantic OceanLarus delawarensisbirdbirdinflightgullgulllike birdNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIContinental United Statesgolden hourinflightcover
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summer wind ~ Lake Michigan
"Light turns the ordinary into the magical." ~ Trent Parke
Lake MichigansailingsailboatSouth HavenMichiganGreat LakesNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIContinental United StatesBlack River area
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on the pier ~ Lake Michigan
"And above all, watch with glistening eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places." ~ Roald Dahl
Nikon D7100MichiganpierSouth Havenprimary colorsgraphic elementsgeometriccompositionvivid colorLake MichiganSouth BeachIndian GroveBlack RiversummertimeAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIContinental United States
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golden blooms ~ Michigan
“On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
MichiganAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIContinental United StatesyellowblossomsbloomsflowerssummertimeWashtenaw CountyNikon D7100bluegreenbokehflowerchallenge
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pinnate prairie coneflower ~ Michigan
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ~ Albert Einstein
Michigangreyheaded conefloweryellow coneflowerpinnate prairie coneflowernative plantNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIblossomyellowbloomprairieContinental United Statesflowerchallenge
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morning blue light ~ wild chicory ~ Michigan
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit." ~ Aristotle
blueflowerblossomfieldMichiganNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIbokehdepth of fieldwild chicorycover
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wetland reflections ~ Lake Huron
“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goals. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” ~ Benjamin E. Mays
reedsreflectionsMichiganNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IILake HuronOttawaswaterscapecloudsskywaterchallengecover
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pointing the way ~ Blue Jay perching ~ Cyanocitta crostata ~ Lake Huron
"When I have ceased to break my wings against the faultiness of things, and learned that compromises wait behind each hardly opened gate, when I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth." ~ Sara Teasdale
Nikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIMichiganLake HuronBlue JaybirdSandy Hook TrailCyanocitta crostataTawas Point State ParkContinental United Statesperching birdOttawassun highlightspointbirthday
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summer shores ~ Lake Huron
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” ~ Pablo Picasso
Lake HuronMichiganshorelineEast TawasNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIContinental United StatesTawas Point State ParkSandy Hook Trailwaternatureoutdoorslakecover
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four greylag geese a-swimming ~ Anser anser ~ Huron River, Michigan
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” ~ Jim Rohn
geeseswimmingMichiganContinental United StatesNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIHuron Rivergreylaganser anserducklike birdbird
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curious doe with fawn ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.” ~ Anton Chekhov
Nikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIMichiganContinental United StatesHuron River Watersheddeerdoefawnfaunachallenge
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fawn ~ Alex Dow Field (Tall Grass Prairie), Nichols Arboretum, Michigan
“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to ‘give a meaning’ to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry – it is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.” ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
fawndeerMichiganContinental United StatesHuron River WatershedNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIportrait of a fawnfauna
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field of gold ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved." ~ Ansel Adams
field of goldflowerblossomMichiganwildflowercolorHuron River WatershedNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIContinental United Statesyellowcover
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." ~ Buddha
American AvocetsRecurvirostra americanaLake MichiganNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIshorebirdinflightbird
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fawn with mom ~ Alex Dow Field (Tall Grass Prairie), Nichols Arboretum, Michigan
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
fawndeerMichiganContinental United StatesHuron River WatershedNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIportrait of a fawnfaunacover
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American Goldfinch ~ Spinus tristis ~ Huron River, Michigan
“A picture is a secret about a secret ~ the more it tells you, the less you know.” ~ Diane Arbus..
Spinus tristisAmerican GoldfinchbirdMichiganContinental United StatesHuron RiverNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIperching birdcover
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Morning Has Broken
Like the first dewfall
On the first grass;
Praise for the sweetness,
Of the wet garden,
Sprung in completeness
Where His feet pass.
Mine is the sunlight,
Mine is the morning,
Born of the one light
Eden saw play;
Praise with elation,
Praise every morning,
God’s re-creation
Of the new day."
~ Eleanor Farjeonearly morning mistMichiganNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIfarm fieldsruralChristian hymn1st published 1931words by Eleanor Farjeonset to traditional Scottish Gaelic tune known as Bunessan
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tallgrass prairie and savannah with bluestem ~ Andropogon gerardii
remnants of an early Michigan morning landscape before farming, industry and commerce
bluestemMichigantallgrass prairieAndropogon gerardiigrassNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIremnantearly morningsavannahprairie peninsulapreindustrialContinental United Statestallgrassmistcover
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morning pines ~ Michigan
"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." ~ Ivan Turgenev
MichiganContinental United StatesNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IImorningpinesmistWashtenaw County
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Endless Summer ~ Michigan
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." ~ Baba Dioum
rural Washtenaw CountyMichiganearly morningNatural Beauty Roadfieldsorchardsgolden hourNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIContinental United Statesflowerwidlflowerssummercover
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American Avocets ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
American AvocetsRecurvirostra americanaLake MichiganNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIshorebirdMichigan
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” ~ Elliott Erwitt
American AvocetsRecurvirostra americanaLake MichiganNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIshorebirdinflightbirdcover
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summer beauty ~ Michigan
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is." ~ Anonymous
yellowflowerblossombloomsummertimeNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIMichiganContinental United Statesfieldsbluegreen
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on golden pond ~ Michigan
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution." -- Ansel Adams
Nikon d7100goldenpondearly morningrural WashtenawwatersunlightmistMichiganContinental United States
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golden hour weather over the Atlantic ~ Southern Outer Banks
“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” ~ Dorothea Lange
Atlantic OceanPine Knoll Shoresbarrier islandoceangolden hourweatherCrystal CoastBogue BanksSOBXSouthern Outer BanksNorth CarolinaNikon D7100beachwaterscapewavesAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIseascapecover
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May the road rise up to meet you.
"May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand."
~ Old Irish BlessingIrish BlessingroadMichiganNikon D7100Continental United StatesAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIgolden hourmorningWashtenaw Countylandscape
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misty island evening ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man." - Edward Steichen
SOBXPine Knoll ShoresBogue BanksCrystal CoastAtlantic Oceangolden hourNorth CarolinaCoastislandwaterscapebeacheveningmistySouthern Outer BankscolorsunsetlightwaveswatercompositionseascapeNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIContinental United Statesbarrier islandcover
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Ring-billed Gull ~ Larus delawarensis ~ Lake Michigan
"Because, when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing." ~ unknown
ringbilled gullLarus delawarensisLake MichiganOld Saugatuck Natural Harbor AreaSaugatuckMichiganbirdinflightbirdcoastbeachNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIContinental United Statesgulllike birdinflightcover
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American Avocets, breeding plumage~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
“The principal and proper work of history being to instruct, and enable men by the knowledge of actions past to bear themselves prudently in the present and providently in the future.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
American AvocetsRecurvirostra americanaLake MichiganNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIshorebirdbirdcover
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fawn two of three ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems."
~ Arthur William Edgar O'ShaughnessyfawndeerMichiganContinental United StatesHuron River WatershedNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIportrait of a fawnfaunacover
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on the wing ~ Southern Outer Banks ~ 2nd winter sojourn to Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina, with special guests ~ January 6, 2014
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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