Holland Trip

Early May brings about many things in Michigan. The end of college, the start of (typically) reliably warmer weather, and tulips. Holland, MI has a tulip festival every spring to showcase tulips, oddly enough. Of course, the tulips being grown were absolutely gorgeous.



There were plenty of people walking around and getting a shot without anyone in it was amusing, to say the least. This fountain, in the center of Holland provided a lovely backdrop for this shot.

I had just received my new EF 85mm f/1.8 lens, so I had a field day playing with bokeh, as seen in the following images.





This final image gives you an idea of what a field of tulips looks like in May. Absolutely stunning.



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Recent Trips (part I)

In early April, my wife and I took a trip to Houghton, MI to visit her sister, who is attending Michigan Tech. Driving up there after a full days work was not in the cards because a certain hotel decided to stop having a night clerk on duty after 11:30 pm. So we pushed through and drove the full 10 hours in one evening, arriving in Houghton at 3am. It was my first trip to "da UP," as the locals call it. It is truly gorgeous country up there and we happened to catch things right before all the snow and ice had melted (as you'll be able to see in the photos).

We got up the next morning and drove from Houghton to Copper Harbor, the northern most point in Michigan one can reach by car. I couldn't have asked for better photography weather on this day.



This was taken just outside of Copper Harbor. You're looking out onto Lake Superior which still had a fair amount of ice on it.



Another shot at the same location, looking camera right of the previous shot.



This was taken at a different location, further west. This really shows how frozen over Superior still is in early April. The temperatures were in the 40s, yet there was still 2 feet of snow on the ground in some places!








The obligtory Mackinac Bridge shot. It's not the most glorious photo of the bridge that's ever been taken, but I like it. It was incredibly hazy when we drove back downstate.

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More to come later!

First Post

I did it. I finally moved into the 18th century and decided to set up a blog. Will I keep this up? Who knows. I guess the hard part will be getting enough people read my ramblings without wanting to take a spork to their eyes.

More will be coming later, but I thought I'd end with this little alien that was found by a neighbor earlier in the week. "Baby," my rear. It's the first of an invasion force sent to take over the planet and make us bow down to their ways. It may look cute, but it very well might end up being The Rabbit of Caerbannog, laying in wait to take your head off with it's "sharp pointy fangs." We'd all better stock up on handgrenades.