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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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 [...]
birds, Mark S. Carlson, nature photography tips, Seasonal Photography, SpringFeatured Alumni Photo: Green-Tinted Trillium
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 [...]
alumni, Craig Stoehre, featured alumni photo, Mark S. Carlson, Seasonal Photography, Spring, trillium, wildflowersNature Photography Tips: Capturing Early Spring Wildflowers in Best Light
Spring wildflowers love the bright light and full sunshine. Nature Photography Tips from Mark S. Carlson: The majority of early spring wildflowers respond and open during bright sunshine. Sometimes good photos can be captured during such lighting conditions, but for the most part, bright overcast light would be more desirable. The image of a Round-lobed Hepatica [...]
Mark S. Carlson, nature photography tips, Seasonal Photography, Spring, wildflowersMichigan’s Bent Trillium
Bent Trillium (Trillium flexipes) is perhaps the most confusing of the eight-trillium species native to the Great Lakes region. Also known as ‘Drooping’ or ‘White’ trillium, it often hybridizes with Red Trillium (T. erectum) and Nodding Trillium (T. cernuum), creating even more confusion for the armature botanist. It occurs in 20 Michigan counties, down the [...]
bent trillium, Mark S. Carlson, Spring, trillium, wildflowersMichigan’s Trillium of the Snow
Trilliums of Michigan – Snow Trillium, a threatened species. Michigan Snow Trillium: Snow Trillium (Trillium nivale) is the true harbinger of spring of the eight Great Lakes trillium species. Blooming as early as mid-March, it often wakes up under a blanket of snow, hence it’s name, nivale, meaning “of the snow.” In fact, snow trillium [...]
Mark S. Carlson, Seasonal Photography, snow trillium, Spring, trillium, wildflowersWhite Trillium, A Rite of Spring
Michigan’s Favorite Wildflower…The Great White Hope’ of Spring. Michigan’s White Trillium: What’s your favorite wildflower? If your answer is White Trillium, then you’re not alone! Of the eight species native to Michigan, the Common Trillium, White Trillium, Great White Trillium, Large-flowered White Trillium or White Wake-robin (Trillium grandiflorum) is by far our most popular and [...]
Michigan Photographers…The Allure to Capture Spring
Spring! Wildflowers hidden in the woods…so alluring for naturalist photographer. Michigan Photographers…The Allure to Capture Spring: For the Naturalist Photographer, change is always an inspiration and I’m not referring to the rattling in your pocket, but rather the change in seasons. By April in the Great Lakes region, particularly Mid-Michigan, photographers are drawn to the [...]
Central Michigan, Eco-Photo Excursions, Mark S. Carlson, Mystery Excursion, Seasonal Photography, Spring, wildflowersWildflowers & Waterfalls – Trail to Spring in the Smoky Mountains
Walk a trail bounded with springtime wildflowers…serenaded by waterfalls. Springtime Smoky Mountain Wildflowers & Waterfalls: If you’re a nature lover and you think of springtime, what’s the first thing that comes to mind, singing birds, a few raindrops, wildflowers? If you were thinking wildflowers, then where could you find over 1,600 flowering plants in one [...]
Eco-Photo Tours, Great Smoky Mountains, Mark S. Carlson, Seasonal Photography, Smoky Mountains, Spring, Waterfalls, wildflowersTrilliums of the Great Lakes
Michigan’s Favorite Wildflower Trilliums of the Great Lakes: If you live near the Great Lakes, then you know how significant springtime is to our morale, especially after a long, cold winter. The anticipation of warmer weather and sunshine always excites nature lovers from the region, for they know the promise of what comes with it [...]
Mark S. Carlson, Seasonal Photography, trillium, wildflowers