Delightful look at Mother Nature’s wild garden, photograph by Cathy Jones Featured Alumni Photo: “White Trillium and Spring Beauty” by Cathy Jones is a delightful look at Mother Nature’s wild garden of spring. It’s a well composed, well exposed capture that can’t help but bring joy to its viewer. However, one fault I find with […]
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Camera Equipment Review: Memory Cards
Camera Memory Cards Camera Equipment Review: Memory Cards. In the early days of digital, memory cards were expensive and limited in size. Though file size was also small, tough choices challenged digital photographers from deciding how small a file size your images required to the delicate nature of the cards themselves. My first 1 GB card […]
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Michigan Nature 101: Why Do Woodpeckers Drum?
Michigan Nature 101: Woodpeckers Drumming, First Signs of Spring One of the very first signs of spring in my neck-of-the-woods is the sound of woodpeckers drumming. Why Do Woodpeckers Drum? Unlike other songbirds, woodpeckers do not have a distinctive song as part of their avian vocabulary. Instead, drumming is the way the birds communicate, and woodpeckers […]
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Memorable Winter Barns on the Leelanau Peninsula
Leelanau Winter Barns…a Time Gone By Leelanau Winter Barns: The relentless Michigan winter of 2013-14 will certainly be a chilling memory for a long time to come. For the first time in many years, all five Great Lakes were considered to be over 90% frozen. On three separate occasions the Polar Vortex with its sub-zero […]
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Camera Equipment Review: Rearview Mirrorless
Rearview Mirrorless Cameras Camera Equipment Review: Rearview Mirrorless. I’ve gone mirrorless and I won’t look back. Yes, in 2013 I dumped my DLSR. I look forward; to carrying less, recording more detail, with increased sharpness and incredible color. For the first time in digital, I really don’t miss film. The ability of this camera system to […]
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Two Ways to Get FREE 2014 Michigan Calendar
Register for a tour, get a FREE calendar! Register for any 2014 Great Lakes Photo Tours eco-photo tour or excursion before the end of the 2013 calendar year and receive a 2014 Michigan Gold Calendar with photographs by naturalist photographer, Mark S. Carlson. Enjoy 12 months of beautiful photography from scenic locations across the Great Lakes. Offer […]
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Featured Alumni Photo: Autumn Northern Lights in Upper Peninsula
Burning the midnight oil, photographer Michael Wojdylak captures the magical Northern Lights Featured Alumni Photo: Our Great Lakes Photo Tours group enjoyed a very productive and successful week of photography during our recent Copper Country Color Tour 2013. The participants blossomed as talented nature photographers and all of us became family by week’s end. It had […]
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Michigan’s Copper Country Photography Tour – Bold & Beautiful in Autumn
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for “all thing Autumn” Michigan’s Copper Country Color Tour: Copper country is a destination for all things autumn in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. From the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula to the rolling terrain of Porcupine Mountains State Park, the northwest territory of Michigan offers some of the most scenic beauty in this […]
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Camera Equipment Review: Electronic Flash
Electronic Flash – Less is More Camera Equipment Review: Electronic Flash. Interested in adding extra light to your nature images? Curious about Wireless TTL Slave flashes? When you join us on a Great Lakes Eco-Photo Tour or Excursion, you no doubt discovered our aversion to electronic flash in the field. Flash ALWAYS looks like a […]
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Moment in Nature: Intimate Landscape in Copper Country
Celebration of Copper Country Moment in Nature: Intimate Landscape. It’s always fun to photograph intimate landscapes. This past week in Copper Country, little aesthetic scenes were everywhere we looked. Photo: Aspen leaf with water droplets, riverbed rock and autumn reflections; markscarlson.com — at Huron Mountains, MI. ~ Mark S. Carlson, Naturalist Photographer About the […]
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2014 Michigan Calendar: Nature Photography by Mark S. Carlson
2014 Michigan Gold Calendar Now Available! 2014 Michigan Calendar: Nature Photography by Mark S. Carlson. The extraordinary nature photography is once again available in the new 2014 Michigan Gold Calendar by naturalist photographer, Mark S. Carlson. The image portfolio contains a diverse collection of nature and scenic photographs. Each month’s photo is suitable for framing […]
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Camera Equipment Review: Too Much Gear
More camera gear is NOT the answer! Camera Equipment Review: Too Much Gear. I ran across this in a recent equipment review: “But a lens alone is nothing special, every once in awhile we see a wide aperture compact. The (camera model) goes to f/2, and the new (other camera) can manage f/1.4. The difference […]
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Moments in Nature: Paper-Birch Tree
Celebration of the Paper Birch Tree Moments in Nature: Paper Birch Tree. Today’s post didn’t start out to be a celebration of paper birch trees, but that’s exactly what’s happening. As you’ve probably surmised by now, I love paper birch trees. If you like them too, here’s more information you may appreciate. Paper Birch (Betula […]