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sunny thistle ~ Michigan
Eeyore's favorite food; also, ancient Celtic symbol of nobility of character and birth
thistle sunny Michigan Washtenaw County Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II flower bloom fields
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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 Cosmos Cosmos bipinnatus Michigan flower bloom blossom garden AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Nikon D7100 pink
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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 tristis American Goldfinch bird Michigan Continental United States Huron River Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II yellow perching bird balance
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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
light color Ohio bridge Mill Creek Park Youngstown creek reflections water historical old stone bridge Nikon D80 AFS DX ZoomNikkor 18135mm f3.55.6G IFED Continental United States cover
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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 occidentalis Brown Pelican birdsinflight bird water ocean Atlantic SOBX Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Pine Knoll Shores Crystal Coast Bogue Banks Atlantic Ocean coast coastal waters ducklike bird pelican Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II island Continental United States barrier island inflight
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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
bloom blossom forest arboretum delicate Michigan wildflower Cow parsley light Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States flora Anthriscus sylvestris Wild Chervil Queen Anne's Lace wild beaked parsley keck flower
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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 II Nikon D7100 Michigan bird sanderling Old Saugatuck Lake Michigan shorebird birdinflight Continental United States Calidris alba inflight
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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 occidentalis Brown Pelican birdsinflight bird water ocean Atlantic SOBX Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Pine Knoll Shores Crystal Coast Bogue Banks Atlantic Ocean coast coastal waters ducklike bird pelican Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II island Continental United States barrier island inflight challenge
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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
daylily Michigan Hudson Mills bloom blossom flower orange Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States Huron 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 Reuss
Ringbilled gull North Carolina Pine Knoll Shores Crystal Coast island Bogue Banks Atlantic Ocean Larus delawarensis bird birdinflight gull gulllike bird Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States golden hour inflight cover
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summer wind ~ Lake Michigan
"Light turns the ordinary into the magical." ~ Trent Parke
Lake Michigan sailing sail boat South Haven Michigan Great Lakes Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States Black 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 D7100 Michigan pier South Haven primary colors graphic elements geometric composition vivid color Lake Michigan South Beach Indian Grove Black River summertime AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental 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
Michigan AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States yellow blossoms blooms flowers summertime Washtenaw County Nikon D7100 blue green bokeh flower challenge
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pinnate prairie coneflower ~ Michigan
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ~ Albert Einstein
Michigan greyheaded coneflower yellow coneflower pinnate prairie coneflower native plant Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II blossom yellow bloom prairie Continental United States flower challenge
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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
blue flower blossom field Michigan Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II bokeh depth of field wild chicory cover
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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
reeds reflections Michigan Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Lake Huron Ottawas waterscape clouds sky water challenge cover
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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 D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Michigan Lake Huron Blue Jay bird Sandy Hook Trail Cyanocitta crostata Tawas Point State Park Continental United States perching bird Ottawas sun highlights point birthday
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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 Huron Michigan shoreline East Tawas Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States Tawas Point State Park Sandy Hook Trail water nature outdoors lake cover
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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
geese swimming Michigan Continental United States Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Huron River greylag anser anser ducklike bird bird
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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 D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Michigan Continental United States Huron River Watershed deer doe fawn fauna challenge
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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
fawn deer Michigan Continental United States Huron River Watershed Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II portrait of a fawn fauna
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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 gold flower blossom Michigan wildflower color Huron River Watershed Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States yellow cover
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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 Avocets Recurvirostra americana Lake Michigan Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II shorebird inflight bird
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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
fawn deer Michigan Continental United States Huron River Watershed Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II portrait of a fawn fauna cover
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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 tristis American Goldfinch bird Michigan Continental United States Huron River Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II perching bird cover
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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 Farjeon
early morning mist Michigan Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II farm fields rural Christian hymn 1st published 1931 words by Eleanor Farjeon set 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
bluestem Michigan tallgrass prairie Andropogon gerardii grass Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II remnant early morning savannah prairie peninsula preindustrial Continental United States tallgrass mist cover
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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
Michigan Continental United States Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II morning pines mist Washtenaw 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 County Michigan early morning Natural Beauty Road fields orchards golden hour Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States flower widlflowers summer cover
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American Avocets ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
American Avocets Recurvirostra americana Lake Michigan Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II shorebird Michigan
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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 Avocets Recurvirostra americana Lake Michigan Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II shorebird inflight bird cover
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summer beauty ~ Michigan
“Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is." ~ Anonymous
yellow flower blossom bloom summertime Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Michigan Continental United States fields blue green
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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 d7100 golden pond early morning rural Washtenaw water sunlight mist Michigan Continental 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 Ocean Pine Knoll Shores barrier island ocean golden hour weather Crystal Coast Bogue Banks SOBX Southern Outer Banks North Carolina Nikon D7100 beach waterscape waves AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II seascape cover
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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 Blessing
Irish Blessing road Michigan Nikon D7100 Continental United States AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II golden hour morning Washtenaw County landscape
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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
SOBX Pine Knoll Shores Bogue Banks Crystal Coast Atlantic Ocean golden hour North Carolina Coast island waterscape beach evening misty Southern Outer Banks color sunset light waves water composition seascape Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States barrier island cover
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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 gull Larus delawarensis Lake Michigan Old Saugatuck Natural Harbor Area Saugatuck Michigan birdinflight bird coast beach Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States gulllike bird inflight cover
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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 Avocets Recurvirostra americana Lake Michigan Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II shorebird bird cover
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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'Shaughnessy
fawn deer Michigan Continental United States Huron River Watershed Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II portrait of a fawn fauna cover
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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
bird on the wing inflight Bogue Banks SOBX Southern Outer Banks North Carolina coast island silhouette waves ocean Nikon D7100 AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II Continental United States Crystal Coast Atlantic Ocean golden hour
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