On a periodic basis, I send a new image via email for your enjoyment. If you'd like to receive them, just click here to send me your email address. You can opt out at any time - and I will never share your email address with others.
Below are those sent in 2010, or view those sent in: 2011 or 2008 through 2009
12.10
"Winter's Assault on Lake Michigan" begins with blasts of freezing wind and snow. Waves bearing frozen balls of ice and slush slam into the ever growing ice shelf. By January open water may be a quarter mile or more off shore. The last time the lake reached a 90% ice covering was in 1979!
9.10
You might be inclined to think this is the smallest image I've ever included in one of these messages but the very opposite is true. It's actually the largest - by far. This image is 32.5 feet long and 3.5 feet high.
That's right, 32.5 feet, not inches.
That's a bit too large to view in your email and would take a very long time for you to download. So this time around you need to click on This Link to view this image in your browser. I can promise that you've never seen an image of Saugatuck like it.
The image is a 360 view from the top of Mount Baldhead. The center of the image is looking to the North. To the East the photo shows the Saugatuck waterfront on Kalamazoo Lake and the Kalamazoo River. The river flows Northward and around a large wooded dune to the channel into Lake Michigan. To the North is Saugatuck Dunes State Park. To the West is Saugatuck Dunes Natural Area and Oval Beach. To the Southeast, across Kalamazoo Lake is the village of Douglas.
6.10
Mist rises from warm water into the cooler morning air as the sun rises over Indian Cut on the Kalamazoo River. Indian Bayou was once home to the Potawatomi. In 1897, the Kalamazoo River was a navigable depth of 4 to 12 feet, except 3.5 miles below New Richmond. The U.S. Engineer Office reported a split; a shallow branch and a "tortuous" stream through wooded bottom land with bluffs 50 feet and marshland. "Indian Cut" was dredged shortening the river by a mile. Here wildlife is still abundant and sunrise a spectacular time to consider the river's diverse past.
4.10
Please...... Come for the view!!
You're invited, so mark your calendar for Friday, May 28. That's the Friday of Memorial Day weekend.
We'll be celebrating the opening of my new show at GoodGoods in Saugatuck, from 5:30 to 8:30 PM.
The show consists of my photographs of the Saugatuck Lakeshore; many being shown for the first time, several in very large sizes. We'll also be showing images from my Native American series, Traditional Subjects, including "The Ride to Wounded Knee" from the Smithsonian Collection.
2.10
This time around I diverge from Saugatuck.... In case you missed the news, the Smithsonian Institute has purchased a second print of my photograph of "The Ride to Wounded Knee".
The first print is in the museum's permanent collection and remains on display in the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington. The second print is in the exhibition, "A Song for the Horse Nation" that opened in November at the George Gustav Heye Center in New York City. The exhibit will move to Washington in July, then begin a national tour in 2013.
You can read about it at A Song for the Horse Nation and in the Smithsonian's blog.
In Saugatuck, the image will be included in my show opening at GoodGoods on Memorial Day weekend; Friday May 28 from 5:30 to 8:30. Be sure to mark your calendar.
View 2011 or 2008 through 2009