Month: April 2024

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Untitled – #108

In July of 2023 we took a trip to Michigan to visit friends. On the way back home, we had made plans to visit one of our favorite places, Saugatuck, Michigan.

Very near Saugatuck is the town of Douglas. Both lie in very close proximity to Lake Michigan. We wanted to see if we could get some good sunset pictures, so, we decided to drive the short distance to Douglas. Never having gone there to find the beach, it turned out to be quite a trial-and-error adventure. Much of the property along the beach in Douglas is privately owned and inaccessible but after some searching we did find a small stretch of beach that was open to the public. We parked the car on the heights and took the well-maintained wooded steps down to the beach. There were a couple places built on the short decent, like decks with benches, where you could sit and enjoy the view.

Sitting on one of the decks I got this view of the sun peeking through the tree and reflecting on the water as it began its final trip of that day toward the horizon.

Other pictures taken that day that you will find in our Etsy Shop are Flowers – Untitled #99 and Landscape – Untitled #110.

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Untitled – #107

We took this picture on a very hot, humid day in July of 2016 at Starved Rock State Park in LaSalle County, Illinois. It is a black and white rendition of the form and texture of a rivulet of water in one of the many stream and riverbeds in the park.

It hadn’t been particularly rainy during this part of the summer and the heat had aided in evaporation, so that what were once ample water supplies coursing through the streams and rivers, due to the late winter melt-off or the abundant spring rains, were now absent.

We had considered putting this picture in our Etsy Shop for many months and we finally relented. I love, particularly, the pattern of the “waves,” for lack of a better term, and the rhythmic function, certainly with a mathematical, waveform feel to it.

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Untitled – #106

When I’m shooting pictures with my camera, my focus is usually straight ahead at some object or landscape, or down while capturing the image of a flower or plant but, comparatively seldom am I looking up. I have had to train myself over the years to see what’s going on above me.

I took this picture in May of 2023 at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois near Lake Marmo. It is simply a grouping of trees along the path that gave me not only pause but a literal and spiritual sense of something bigger, greater than me; a looking up, if you will, to consider those lovely things that seem to be out of reach and yet, ever so attainable.