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In a cedar and pine forest on Lake Michigan, moments of illumination fly around like sparks off a campfire.
The best way to capture sunrise on film. Handy techniques for depicting shadow in watercolors. How to harness the power of the inner eye.
At the Clearing in Door County, everything becomes clearer.
Nothing is more exhilarating than the first days of spring, when the air practically vibrates with the pent-up vigor of growing things.
Warm sunlight filters down through budding forests, and the rich smell of humus wafts up from their floors. Then, amid the decaying leaves and grasses, we find the first spring ephemerals.
They gladden our hearts, those brave little blooms. But they come, and then they go.
When a swarm of photographers from the city descended on the Red River Valley of Minnesota in the summer of 2005, everyone was in for a surprise.
The photographers, eight students led by two professionals, were surprised by the area's beauty. The locals were surprised the photographers were there at all.
On a deserted county road near St. Hilaire, the two worlds collided. As the students set up their equipment in a field to shoot the sunset, they noticed traffic picking up.