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Featured Alumni Photo: Autumn Northern Lights in Upper Peninsula

Posted by admin - October 25, 2013 - Eco-photo tour, Featured Alumni Photo, Mark S. Carlson, Upper Peninsula
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Autumn Northern Lights, ©Michael Wojdylak | Great Lakes Photo Tours

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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Featured Alumni Photo: Platte Bay Boardwalk Over Dune

Posted by admin - September 20, 2013 - Autumn, Featured Alumni Photo, Mark S. Carlson
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Stormy sky over Platte Bay boardwalk (A), ©Don Phillips | Great Lakes Photo Tours

Featured Alumni Photo: Platte Bay Boardwalk Over Dune Featured Alumni Photo: During our Autumn Dunes Eco~Photo Excursion of 2012, participating photographer, Don Phillips captured an image that exemplified the moody weather of the day. As ominous as his photo appears, the day was actually quite eventful for all of the participants and very rewarding image-wise. [...]

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Featured Alumni Photo: Fragile Fern at Tree Root Base

Posted by admin - August 27, 2013 - Featured Alumni Photo, Mark S. Carlson
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Woodland Tree Root, ©Ileana Habsburg-Snyder | Great Lakes Photo Tours

Featured Alumni Photo: Fragile Fern at Tree Root Base Featured Alumni Photo:  During a recent eco-photo excursion at Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, participant Ileana Habsburg-Snyder captured a photo of a Fragile Fern emerging from the root base of an old sugar maple tree. Interesting subject matter, revealing the natural relationship of the great [...]

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Featured Alumni Photo: Lily of the Valley

Posted by admin - July 23, 2013 - Featured Alumni Photo, Mark S. Carlson, Wildflowers
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Lily of the valley blossom pair, ©Donna Kowalczyk | Great Lakes Photo Tours

Featured Alumni Photo: Lily of the Valley. Featured Alumni Photo: During our spring Excursion at DeVries Nature Conservancy in Owosso, Michigan, participant Donna Kowalaczyk captured this interesting photo of a pair of Lily-of-the-Valley blossoms. Interesting subject matter; simplicity is a powerful composition technique; Good select focus point and choice of depth-of-field. Perhaps placing the pair [...]

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Featured Alumni Photo: Trout Lily

Posted by admin - June 23, 2013 - Featured Alumni Photo, Mark S. Carlson, Photography-tips, Wildflowers
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Trout Lily, ©Cathy Jones | Great Lakes Photo Tours

Featured Alumni Photo of a Trout Lilly. Featured Alumni Photo: We enjoyed a beautiful sunny day in May during our DeVries Nature Conservancy Eco~Photo Excursion in Owosso, Michigan. Participants focused their camera’s and attention on the myriad of spring blooms, from ornamental trees to carpets of woodland wildflowers. Participant Cathy Jones shared some of her trophy [...]

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Featured Alumni Photo: Green-Tinted Trillium

Posted by admin - June 17, 2013 - Featured Alumni Photo, Mark S. Carlson, Photography-tips, Seasonal Photography, Spring, Wildflowers
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Green Trillium, ©Craig Stoehre | Great Lakes Photo Tours

Featured alumni photo of a green-tinted trillium. Featured Alumni Photo: This past May 11th, we conducted our Ephemeral Spring Eco~Photo Excursion at Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The trillium were magnificent! One of our participants, Craig Stoehre, captured a photo of a Green-tinted trillium (T. grandiflorum). The green coloration is caused by a virus [...]

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Featured Alumni Photo: Birch Trees in Black & White

Posted by admin - April 5, 2013 - Eco-Photo Excursion, Featured Alumni Photo, Mark S. Carlson, Seasonal Photography, Winter
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Birch in Black & White, ©Shane Wyatt | Great Lakes Photo Tours

Featured alumni photo of quiet birch trees and falling snow…in black & white. Our Featured Alumni Photo: Birch Trees in Black & White by Shane Wyatt. Shane joined us on the Leelanau White Eco-Photo Weekend to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and Leelanau County in February 2013. Sometimes photography really can be ‘Point and Shoot’. [...]

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Featured Alumni Photo: Boardwalk Over Dune

Posted by admin - March 26, 2013 - Featured Alumni Photo, Leelanau Peninsula, Mark S. Carlson, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
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Boardwalk over dune, ©Kristen Kernstock | Great Lakes Photo Tours

Featured alumni photo reminds us of our own happy visits to the dunes! Our Featured Alumni Photo: Boardwalk Over Dune. In this photo by Great Lakes Photo Tours alumnus, Kristen Kernstock, an empty ‘dune dock’ at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s scenic overlook (accessed from the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive), drifts quietly over a sand [...]

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Featured Alumni Photo: D.H. Day Barns Winter Landscape

Posted by admin - February 28, 2013 - Featured Alumni Photo, Mark S. Carlson, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Winter
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D.H. Day Barns Winter Landscape, ©Susan Moore | Great Lakes Photo Tours

Featured alumni photo is a wide-angle lesson in art. Our Featured Alumni Photo: D.H. Day Barns Winter Landscape. At our first location of the Pastoral Peninsula, Winter Eco~Photo Excursion 2013, participant, Susan Moore of White Lake, Michigan, captured the epitome of our Leelanau White Weekend’s rural magnetism. Her sweeping wide-angle composition is a lesson in [...]

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Featured Alumni Photo: Green Frog Peering from Puddle

Posted by admin - January 17, 2013 - Autumn, Featured Alumni Photo, Mark S. Carlson, Uncategorized, Wildlife
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Green Frog face emerging from puddle with autumn leaves; ©Steve Sage | Great Lakes Photo Tours

Featured alumni photo taken on a rainy day in autumn. Our Featured Alumni Photo: Steve Stage gets the honor of being our featured alumni photographer. Steve was a participant to Timberland Swamp this autumn. This emerging green frog, digitally captured by photographer Steve Sage, subliminally tells the story of a warm, late autumn day. A [...]

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Featured Alumni Photo: Lichen on Old Barn Roof

Posted by admin - November 14, 2012 - Eco-Photo Excursion, Featured Alumni Photo, Uncategorized
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British Soldier Lichen on Old Cedar Shake Barn Roof ©Jonathan Schechter

Featured alumni nature photo from an old farm in Leelanau County. Our Featured Alumni Photo: Our November photo was taken by participant Jonathan Schechter and is called is “Lichen On Old Cedar Shake Barn Roof.” Jonathan traveled with us through Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore during a one-day eco-photo excursion summer 2012. My Review The [...]

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