Condensing the recent nature work I’ve done, enjoying the immense beauty that erupts from a stark Minnesota winter.

I love shooting into the sun near sunset…just something about the softness, bokeh light in the background, and unexpected colors that draws me to this type of imagery.

Something I just realized…I believe most nature photographers shoot landscape orientation, but I find myself almost exclusively shooting portrait orientation. Maybe it’s because of the macro work or my portraiture…I have no idea why…I just subconsciously rotate the camera.

All shot with a Canon 7D and the following lenses: Canon 80mm/1.8, Canon 50mm/1.8, Tamron 70-300mm/macro

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As promised, here are some spring dogwoods (and a few tulips on the same evening).

All shot with my 70-300mm macro at 180-300 from f/4.6 to f/5.3, iso 200

Oh, how I love chasing the evening light (yes, for all who know me certainly not the morning light-except in Molokai, Dewitt!).

There were a few apple blossoms on a little tree growing wild in woods near our lake home and I just couldn’t playing with the light one evening.

And, I couldn’t resist the dogwoods at our local garden park. I don’t believe it’s common to have dogwoods in Minnesota, so what a treat! Photos of them coming soon!