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I was up at Five o’clock in the morning making coffee and checking the weather. After three days of cloudy skies or fog, the prediction that morning was for clear skies over Lake Michigan.
By 5:30 I was loading the car and preparing to drive to the lake once more.
This morning there were fewer than normal joggers on the path when I arrived. Most likely because the temperature was twenty degrees cooler than the day before. The sun was still below the horizon when I picked up the camera and my coffee and hiked out to the water’s edge.
I chose a location where the steel pilings are protected by large rocks at the edge of the marina that point to the nautical marker on the point. They create a natural arrow whose other side is the trees on the peninsula.
Sunrise was still ten minutes away when I began clicking the shutter and after it rose, I waited to see if a God Ray would appear. Alas that was not to be, but among all those photos was this one where the sun was just a...

My artwork is focused on bringing out the emotion of the location to you the viewer. If the photograph puts a smile on your face, then I have achieved my goal. You are invited to enjoy evocative scenes of the world as it is and on occasion as it could be. My career in photography began over forty years ago when I purchased a Polaroid camera that popped out small prints on hard paper after having been waved in the breeze. A series of simple cameras followed until I realized that photography was more than a hobby, and it became a passion, one that I still enjoy today. I challenge myself to find new and interesting locations and use the wonder of changing light and weather to present to you, the viewer what it feels like to be there, and to...