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Featured Alumni Photo: Trillium with Spring Beauty

March 26, 2014 / admin / Featured Alumni Photo, Mark S. Carlson, Photography-tips, Seasonal Photography, Spring, Wildflowers
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White Trillium and spring beauty, ©Cathy Jones | Great Lakes Photo Tours

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?

March 24, 2014 / admin / Birds, Leelanau Peninsula, Photography-tips, Seasonal Photography, Spring, Uncategorized, Wildflowers
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Downy male woodpecker working a paper birch snag; ©markscarlson.com | Great Lakes Photo Tours

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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Moments in Nature: Prairie Coneflower Petal

August 6, 2013 / admin / Mark S. Carlson, Moments in Nature, Wildflowers
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Prairie Coneflower petal, ©markscarlson.com | Great Lakes Photo Tours

Something so tiny, yet worth capturing. Moments in Nature: The last drop of dew for this Prairie Coneflower petal – Mother Nature’s morning shower . ~ Mark S. Carlson, Naturalist Photographer About the Author: Mark S. Carlson leads eco-photo tours to scenic locations around the Great Lakes region while teaching fundamental photography skills and nature ecology. Mark’s photography is [...]

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Featured Alumni Photo: Lily of the Valley

July 23, 2013 / admin / 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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Blooms of Sleeping Bear Dunes: Smooth Rose

June 24, 2013 / admin / Leelanau Peninsula, Mark S. Carlson, Seasonal Photography, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Wildflowers
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Smooth Rose at Sleeping Bear Dunes Empire Bluffs, ©Mark S. Carlson | Great Lakes Photo Tours

The wild, but not Irish, rose. Blooms of Sleeping Bear Dunes – Smooth Rose: The scenic views at Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore speak for themselves in majesty and drama, but the Smooth Rose provides stunning compliments to the landscape with its colorful blooms. The plant is called “Smooth Rose” because, unlike their thorny cousin, [...]

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Featured Alumni Photo: Trout Lily

June 23, 2013 / admin / 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

June 17, 2013 / admin / 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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Michigan’s Sessile Trilliums

June 12, 2013 / admin / Mark S. Carlson, Wildflowers
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Trillium recurvatum in waterleaf, ©Mark S. Carlson | Great Lakes Photo Tours

Michigan’s Sessile Trilliums: Some Trilliums Are For Toads Michigan’s Sessile Trilliums: Two of Michigan’s eight trillium species barely make the list as they only inhabit the extreme southwest corner to the southern edge of the mitten. Trillium recurvatum, also known as Prairie Trillium, Toadshade and Bloody Noses, are a significant feature of the mid-May woodlands [...]

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Michigan’s Nodding Trillium

May 21, 2013 / admin / Mark S. Carlson, Seasonal Photography, Wildflowers
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Trillium, Nodding, blossom against tree trunk, ©Mark S. Carlson | Great Lakes Photo Tours

Nodding Trillium of Michigan – a shy but beautiful wildflower. Michigan Nodding Trillum. Nodding Trillium (Trillium cernuum) could be considered the shyest trillium of our eight species native to the Great Lakes region because it hides its blossom beneath a tight whorl of broad, ovate leaves. Its habitat varies from mixed coniferous-hardwoods in the north, [...]

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Nature Photography Tips: Capturing Early Spring Wildflowers in Best Light

April 26, 2013 / admin / Mark S. Carlson, Photography-tips, Spring, Wildflowers
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Hepatica opening in sunshine, ©Mark S. Carlson | Great Lakes Photo Tours

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 [...]

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Michigan’s Bent Trillium

April 25, 2013 / admin / Mark S. Carlson, Seasonal Photography, Spring, Wildflowers
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Bent Trillium, ©Mark S. Carlson | Great Lakes Photo Tours

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 [...]

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Michigan’s Trillium of the Snow

April 10, 2013 / admin / Mark S. Carlson, Seasonal Photography, Spring, Uncategorized, Wildflowers
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Snow Trillium in snow, ©Mark S. Carlson | Great Lakes Photo Tours

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 [...]

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