BATS
Made a great connection recently with a group called The Organization for Bat Conversation. The OBC is located at The Cranbrook Institute here in Michigan. The OBC is a non-profit organization whose mission is to preserves bats and their habitat through education, collaboration, and research. You can visit the website here: http://www.batconservation.org/index.html. I really like…
SPRING WARBLERS AND OTHERS
Being a Michigan photographer, I am lucky to live within an hours drive of Crane Creek State Park in Ohio, one of the best places in the country for photographing migrating warblers. Crane creek is an area where the warblers congregate to refuel and wait for a favorable wind to help them fly across Lake…
SONGS OF SPRING
Sorry that I have not written in so long. Between art shows and different trips I have not been home very much in the last month and a half. One of the trips I was on was a sailing adventure to scout the North Channel in Canada, where I will be leading a photo tour…
FLOATING BLIND SPRING 2009
This spring was not as productive for floating blind photography as past years have been. I think that was due in large part, to an early warm spell that took the ice off many of the lakes in the area. This early breakup allowed the waterfowl to use some of the larger lakes that usually…
COSTA RICA PART 2
As promised, here are some more images from my trip to Costa Rica. I apologize if you are on dial up because this is going to be a large post. I am going to try to get this done in one more post. We saw two different types of Oropendola the Montezuma Oropendola on the…
COSTA RICA PART 1
Sorry I am so long getting these images up. I have been very busy trying to finish up the teaching modules for the upcoming seminar at The National Center for Nature Photography in May. It has been a lot of work. Way more than I ever would have thought, but once done, I plan on…
ONE DAY NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY SEMINAR
Just in case you did not see it on my photo seminar page, I will be teaching a one day Nature Photography seminar at The National Center for Nature Photography near Toledo on Saturday May 9th from 9:00 until around 4:00. For more information please follow this link: https://stevegettle.com/pages/category/photo-seminars/ I know I still need to…
How to Photograph Snowflakes
Looking for a great winter photography project? How about snowflakes? If you live in the Northern tier of states I promise you will have plenty of subjects. My setup is based on a system initially designed by Professor Ken Libberecht a great snowflake photographer from California of all places. The setup is basically a homemade…
MORE SNOWFLAKE IMAGES
Actually this post should be called snow crystal images because the images here are of single snow crystals. Most of the crystals shown here are between 0.04 and 0.08 inches. That means they would easily fit in this O. Snowflakes, at least the puffy balls of snow that fall from the sky are generally a…
GIFTS OF ART PROGRAM AT U OF M HOSPITAL
The University of Michigan Health Care System has a very unique art program called Gifts of Art in which they bring in the work of different artists to display in the common areas throughout the hospital. This art program is designed to not only reduce the stress and anxiety often associated with health care facilities,…