A couple photos of the surf on South Haven's north beach yesterday.
Of course - I went to see the lighthouse, hoping to find it covered in spray and ice. I guess it was a fluke of the wind direction and weather - no heavy waves on the lighthouse at all!
Last week in the Allegan Forest... (Updated 2/7/16 - slightly different crop.)
Pentax Mz-S, FA50mm f1.7, Tri X
Three of the photographs I submitted to the Carnegie Center for the Arts 2016 Regional Juried Arts Competition have been accepted by the jurors and will be featured in this year's exhibit.
Based out of Three Rivers, Michigan, the Carnegie Center sponsors this competition for artists living in Southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana. It’s open to works in all media. As an annual event with several years of history, this show always brings out excellent work from the area. The three pieces I submitted to the exhibit are:
The exhibit opens with a reception this Sunday, January 24, 2016 and then runs through February 20. For more information, click here.
A light steady snow this afternoon... A few new snowflake photographs:
My first snowflake photo of 2016:
I did some checking and realized that this is my 17th winter of snowflake photography. Things have changed from the days of shooting on film, but its still fun to be hunting crystals on a cold day.
A little pull-over in the Allegan Forest. There is a small parking area carved into the woods, with a gated-off two track leading back to several large fields, one of which has a handful of crumbling foundation slabs from some sort of long gone building complex. Earlier this week on a snowy day a shaft of sunlight emerged, hitting just the road with direct light, while I stood a few yards off in the shadow. Well, thankfully I had an old twin lens reflex camera with me....