After playing for a few days with images from my recent adventure to photograph the Great Gray Owl, I’ve come up with an image crop and mat treatment that Dad and I especially like.  I thought it’d be fun to share it with our followers. In a nutshell, this is what I’ve done: -threw the [...]

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Hearing of a Great Gray Owl within a couple hours’ drive will perk many a birders ear and it more than perked mine!  It wouldn’t be until yesterday (Wednesday the 28th) that the lighting would be nice and I would have an opportunity to take a day and head over.  I left the house at [...]

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Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas from both of us at Glances At Nature.  Here is a shot from this morning while on a hike through Tawas Point State Park.  Kara and I turned up two Snowy Owls.  

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When: Friday, Jan 27 – Sunday, Jan 29 Where: Sault Saint Marie area, MI Audience: Adults (limited to 4) Fee: $475 single occupancy, $425 double occupancy Join Josh for an amazing winter trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan going after images of Snowy Owls, Sharp-tailed Grouse, and winter songbirds. This trip will take 4 [...]

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Another hawkfest is officially behind us but it was a great weekend of birding and seeing some friends on the east side of the state.  Sales in the booth weren’t as high as we’d hoped but it was still a good weekend talking to people and being a part of a great festival. One of [...]

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Tandem rides, kayak floats, birding, fishing, hiking, hangin’ on the porch.  Just a few things we’ve done the past few days on Drummond Island.  It’s a beautiful place and as one would expect, very UP-like.  Something of note, the image above was shot from my iPhone 4.  Four shots, then stitched together (still on the [...]

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When: Friday Afternoon, Sep 30 – Sunday, Oct 2 Where: Munising Area, MI Audience: Adults (limited to 4) Fee: $475 single occupancy, $425 double occupancy Join Josh for another amazing trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for fall color and breath-taking waterfalls. Josh will take you to some of his favorite locations with one goal in [...]

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We spent the hot afternoon at the Battle Creek Airport today for the Air Show.  Other than some prop planes and an F-18, the main attraction was the United States Navy Blue Angels.  It seemed like it took forever for the Blue Angels to take flight but it was worth the wait. I’m all about [...]

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When: Sunday, October 16th (8am-11am) Where: Kalamazoo Nature Center (call 269-381-1574, ext. 0) Audience: Adults with Digital or Film SLRs (limited to 6, 1 group of 3 with Josh and the other group of 3 with Dave) Fee: $70 KNC Members, $75 Non-Members Join Josh and Dave for a Fall Color and Macro Photography Workshop [...]

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The image below will probably be one of those Photographs that will take the breath away of many women that come through our booth at Art Shows. The Common Loon family above was shot in absolutely drab/dark lighting at ISO 1000.  After the fact, the low noise level in the image impressed me, to say [...]

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