UP Nature Notes (Blog)
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Nature Photography Day Orchard Story - UP Nature Notes, No. 31
July 2, 2025
Nature Photography Day (June 15th in 2025) is dedicated to celebrating and appreciating the beauty of nature through photography. In honor of the day, I present these recent photos from our orchard. They suggest a story called something like “The Orchard That Sustained a Valley,” in which the many of…
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“Firebird” of the Northern Hardwood Forest - UP Nature Notes, No. 30
June 1, 2025
Once the trees of the northern hardwood forest have leafed out, getting a good look at the insectivorous birds of the canopy can be an exercise in frustration. Knowing their songs and calls can be a great help in knowing if the birds are there, but the location of sounds…
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Nature Photography Techniques: Translucency - UP Nature Notes, No. 29
May 16, 2025
In the previous three Notes, I demonstrated how backlighting can be used creatively to make photographs with sunbursts, silhouettes, and rim lighting (not all at once, of course). Here are a few examples of one more backlighting technique that depends on translucent subjects. In this case, light coming from behind…