by Don McGowan | Mar 8, 2019 | March 2019
For each of the previous three weeks there is one characteristic that the Images of the Week have featured in common: each has had an abundance of warm tonalities, especially reds and oranges. So today I thought I would change up and share something that borders on...
by Don McGowan | Mar 2, 2019 | March 2019
On the maps of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan it is known as Bond Falls Flowage, a sparkling lake managed by the U.P. Power Company. Into this impoundment flow Deadman Creek and the Middle Branch of Ontonagon River, and out of it flows Middle Branch on its way north...
by Don McGowan | Feb 22, 2019 | February 2019
One very effective way to reach into the land of abstraction is by increasing the focal length of the lens you are using, since by doing so you narrow the angle-of-view of the image and you magnify and compress the elements; all of which serves to significantly reduce...
by Don McGowan | Feb 17, 2019 | February 2019
The wonderful Appalachian farmsteads of Madison County, North Carolina are treasured repositories of beauty. Often that beauty shouts at us from every angle we behold: the land, the structures, the beings – each sentinent in its own way. Sometimes, however, it...
by Don McGowan | Feb 9, 2019 | February 2019
In the Conservatory of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, there are some amazing plants on display, including some of the slightly more than 2000 palm species from around the world. In many instances I found, on my recent adventure there with Bonnie, the stalk or trunk...
