Tipped Up Tushes
I photographed this pair of Mallards in a pond in the Grand Rapids “Highlands” land conservancy, while hiking on a crisp November day.
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Colored Pencil Drawings
This series of Tom's drawings are all Prismacolor colored pencil on smooth bristol board, done in studio. This is a new medium for Tom upon semi-retiring from his industrial design career. The over 200 colors available greatly expand the possibilities of the pencil as a medium, in comparison to his life-long use of graphite pencil for black and white plein air drawing expression.
Coleus at the Biltmore Mansion
A close up of a superb multi-color Coleus in the Botanical Conservatory of the Biltmore Mansion in Asheville, NC.
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Lichen Cosmos
A close up detail of an unusual blue boulder and orange lichen at Grimes Point Petroglyph Archeological Area, in central Nevada. It reminded me of cosmic imagery.
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Taking Off (Great Blue Heron)
A Great Blue Heron took off in front of my kayak in the Pigeon River in West Michigan. I was pleased to capture the gracefulness of the lift-off and the momentarily suspended water droplets.
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Berlin Mine Ruins
Adjacent to the remote central Nevada Ichthyosaur State Park is the Berlin Mine ruins. I like the strong, crisscrossing diagonal composition of the old model T truck and the mine building.
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Rare Shields in Lehman Cave
Lehman Cave is in the Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. I was drawn to the stalactite formation that resembled a classical architectural column with a Corinthian capital. The shield-like disc on top of the column, and the second disc adjacent to it, are extremely rare formations.
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The Gubbe (Old Man)
This handsome old guy is my father-in-law Carl Carlson. I took a picture of him in the late 1970’s on a sunny winter day hike in the UP of Michigan. I enjoyed creating this portrait recently, after finding the old 35mm slide.
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Pulteney Bridge on the Avon River
This is one of my favorite spots in Bath, England. The bridge and weir are in the center of the very historic downtown, near the Roman baths. We lived in Bath in the early 1980’s, in the hilltop neighborhood just to the left of the church spire in the center horizon of the picture.
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Sunken Dredge in the Michigan Keweenaw Peninsula
The old dredge ruin is a prominent landmark of the copper mining era. We kayaked right into it one year through a hole on the side. The vertigo we experienced when paddling into the very large rectilinear room tipped on an angle was memorable.
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Oak Tree House at Mesa Verde National Park
The Puebloan cliff dwelling ruins in SW Colorado are sculpturally very beautiful and quite mystical. Oak Tree House was my favorite.
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