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Underway and making way, slow but sure, a turtle plodded along the beach near the Ludington State Park Beach House. The turtle’s slow pace gave me time to create an artistic composition that emphasized the beauty of its tracks. The highlights and shadows resulting from the bright, low-in-the-sky evening light raking across the beach made the tracks more distinct and more beautiful. This is one of my son Brad’s favorite images of mine. Brad was ecstatic when he saw the Fuji Velvia slide of this image after I dug it out of the slide storage box it had been living in for years.

Tuesdays With Todd and Brad Reed

The few secluded areas of the Silver Lake Sand Dunes strongly resemble whispering desert hills.

A compelling aspect of visual art is that different people may look at the same image and see different things. While I was composing this photograph, I noticed that the rocks, seaweed, and water resembled the face of an old man. I named this photograph with the hope that my viewers would enjoy the same illusion.

Legends Ranch Bucks at Stump Blind Black and White

New Salmon Fishing Statue at Boat Ramp

Backseat Shooter

Large waves on Stearns Beach in downtown Ludington made beautiful patterns in the sand. Nikon D810. F11 at 1/15, ISO 100. 60-600mm lens at 98mm. On a tripod without a flash. January 16, 2020 at 1:38pm.

DaVincis Dream

Sand Waves

 

Course of Nature

 

 

Grains

 

Nikon D810. F11 at 1.3sec, ISO 100. 105mm lens at 105mm. On a tripod without a flash. February 12, 2020 at 7:27pm.

Legends Ranch September 24 2015 Black and White

The moon is an extremely difficult subject to photograph. If you set your exposure according to the camera meter, then you get some detail in the night sky and foreground, but the moon is a solid white circle with no detail. If you underexpose by three or four stops, then you get the "cheese" of the moon, but no detail in the sky or foreground. The moon also moves so quickly that it requires a relatively fast shutter speed. When it's dark outside, the only way to get a fast shutter speed is to raise your ISO or film speed. However, high film speeds are grainy or noisy. The choice is yours.