Two teenage girls chat at on rocks at the edge of a pond in a Detroit park on Memorial Day. #HumansOfBlueSky #StreetPhotography #Photography #Detroit

A young boy seen through a school bus window last week in Midtown Detroit. #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetPhotography #Photography #Detroit

A bit of street photography from Monday night at a basketball court in a park along the Detroit Riverfront. The lighting was wonderful. #StreetPhotography #Photography #Shadows #LightAndShadow #basketball #Urban #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Detroit #UrbanScene

For #MinimalistMonday, I offer this photo of three Storm shuttered windows on the Sturgeon Point Lighthouse on Lake Huron near Harrisville, Michigan. #Lighthouses #GreatLakes #Photography #LandscapePhotography #MinimalistPhotography #Michigan

The Tawas Pointe Lighthouse in Tawas, Michigan, last weekend. #Scape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Michigan #Lighthouses #LakeHuron

A street performer hugs a woman earlier this week the Detroit Riverwalk. #HumansOfBluesky #UrbanGaze #StreetPhotography #Photography #Detroit

I’m going to stretch the meaning of #WindowsOnWednesday a bit with this photo of a man seen through a partial open door that provides a window into the next room of a coffee shop in Plymouth, MI. #StreetPhotography #CoffeeShops #Cafés #Photography

For #TidesOutTuesday, here is a photo from the weekend of a boy and his dog playing in the chilly spring waters of Lake Huron at Michigan’s Tawas Pointe State Park. #Photography #StreetPhotography #Michigan #GreatLakes #LakeHuron #BoyAndHisDog

For #BlueskyMonday, I offer this photo from last week of the “Little Red” lighthouse on Thunder Bay in Alpena, MI. #LandscapePhotography #Lighthouses #Michigan #MichiganLighthouses #UpNorth #Alpena #Photography #LakeHuron #GreatLakes

This past week I received a used hardcover copy of Pat Conroy’s “Beach Music” from Thriftbooks and was delighted to find it was a signed first edition. I just started it but I’m already attached to Conway’s usual suspects of brilliant but damaged characters. See ALT. #BlueBrewBooks #Literature

Good morning! For #Stunday, here is the Ocqueoc Falls near Rogers City in Michigan’s far northern Lower Peninsula on Friday. #Waterfalls #LandscapePhotography #Michigan #ocqueocfalls #Rivers #Photography

I missed the sunrise this #Morning but here is a photo from another time from the condo I’m staying at this weekend on Lake Huron in northern Michigan. #BlueskyArtShow #Sunrise #Photography #Michigan

A drop of water falls off the bill of a mute swan. #BirdOfTheDay #waterdroplets #birding #BirdPhotography #Photography #WildlifePhotography

Visiting some friends who have a lovely condo on the shores of Lake Huron. This is one of their two cats who seems fascinated with me. 😀🐈 #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #Cats #Felines #Animals

Ice Cream: Three kids enjoy ice cream cones at a concert in Ann Arbor a couple of summers ago. #HumansOfBluesky #StreetPhotography #AnnArbor #SummerFun #IceCream

Inside the main tower of the Renaissance Center on the Detroit riverfront in 2012. GM has sold the iconic skyscrapers and moved its HQ elsewhere downtown earlier this year. #WindowsOnWednesday #Detroit #UrbanScape #StreetPhotography #RenaissanceCenter #Architecture

For #StunDay, I offer this photo I took Saturday evening of a beaver gnawing at a tree in a fen in a natural area along the Detroit Riverwalk, a football field away from the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit. #WildlifePhotography #Wildlife #Detroit #Beavers #Beaver #UrbanWildlife

Probably stretching the rules a bit, but these two guys did not have a #Soft landing Friday night when they lost control of their electric scooter in downtown Detroit. #BlueskyArtShow #Photojournalism #Detroit #StreetPhotography #ElectricScooters #UrbanScene #CityLife

Two strangers outside American Coney Island in downtown Detroit from the summer of 2014. #Scape #Cityscape #StreetPhotography #NightPhotography #Detroit #UrbanScene #CityLife #UrbanLife

Back in 2010 when I was doing a lot of conceptual photography, I did a photo shoot with a model who went by the name Rita Riggs in a courtyard in Ann Arbor‘s. See ALT for more details. #HumansOfBluesky #urbangaze #ConceptualPhotography #Photography #AnnArbor

Reflection in the window of the Eastern Market Brewing Co. in Detroit from a couple of weeks ago. #WindowsOnWednesday #Detroit #AbstractPhotography #reflections #Windows #StreetPhotography

I am rereading Ted Kooser’s small book The Wheeling Year, a book full of observations and thoughts written down over a year’s time. See ALT for more. #BlueBrewBooks #Reading #Books #TedKooser

For #StunDay, I offer this photo from a couple of years ago of a mute swan shaking off the water from its plumage. #Birding #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #Swans #Photography

#ShadowPlay with my shadow earlier this week while riding my bike in Detroit’s Eastern Market. #StreetPhotography #BlueskyArtShow #Photography #Shadows #Photography

I watched “Song Sung Blue” again this week, my third time. I absolutely love this movie. See ALT for more.

Domino Farms outside Ann Arbor on Thursday, a beautiful Michigan spring day. #Scape #Photography #LandscapePhotography #landscapes #AnnArbor #LeadingLines #RuralScene #Farms

#StreetPhotography in downtown Detroit, circa 2013. #HumansOfBluesky #UrbanGaze #Detroit #Urban #CityLife

For #StunDay, I offer this photo from several years ago of the Detroit skyline at night with a sliver moon. #NightPhotography #Photography #Detroit #Cityscapes #Landscapes

I finished reading J.D. Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey” this past week. It’s a short read at 200 pages but a deep one. See ALT for my mini review. #BlueBrewBooks #Reading #Books #Fiction #JDSallinger #FrannyAndZooey

For the #BlueskyArtShow theme #Odd, here is a fun conceptual shot I did with my friend Mercy a dozen or so years ago. See ALT for details on how I took this image. #Photography #ConceptualPhotography #ProductPhotography #StudioPhotography

For #Scape day, I am posting this photo from April 2022 of a bicyclist riding past the original Avalon Bakery on Willis Street in Midtown Detroit. See ALT for the full story. #StreetPhotography #Detroit #Urban #UrbanScene #PeopleOfBluesky #Photography #CityLife #UrbanLife

I was happy to learn Sunday my photograph of kids playing in an open fire hydrant in Detroit’s Brush Park won the People’s Choice Award at a photography exhibit at the Lawrence Street Gallery in Ferndale, Michigan. #Photography #FineArtPhotography #StreetPhotography #Detroit

The downtown Detroit skyline at sunset as seen from the MacArthur Bridge leading the Belle Isle over the Detroit River (circa 2017). #StunDay #LandscapePhotography #Cityscape #Detroit #DramaticSky #Sunsets #Photography

A young girl and her puppy sit at the #Edge of a store doorway in Oviedo, Spain, in August 2018. #BlueskyArtShow #StreetPhotography #Spain #España #TravelPhotography #People #Photography

This robin seems a little dejected over the signage in the nature preserve in the William Milliken State Park along the Detroit Riverfront in downtown Detroit this week. #Scape #Landscape #WildlifePhotography #Birding #Detroit #BirdPhotography #Juxtaposition #Birds #Robin #Photography

I love that this little girl gave me the peace sign as I took a photo of her family on the Dequindre Cut linear park in Detroit this week. We waved at each other when I put the camera down. Made my day. #StreetPhotography #UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky #Detroit #Photography

When I was in Italy in 2007 studying photography, there was a grade school across the courtyard from the building where I was taking classes. I felt this shot had a bit of a Norman Rockwell vibe to it. #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetPhotography #Photography

The downtown Detroit skyline is framed at dusk this past week through the openings of the portico of the old casino building on Belle Isle. #StunDay #LandscapePhotography #Detroit #Photography

I finished reading Allen Levi’s “Theo of Golden” about week. I was looking for an uplifting read and I got it. Much has been written about it, but I thought I would add my two cents. Please see ALT for my review. #BlueBrewBooks #BookReview #Books #TheoOfGolden #Novels #AllenLevi #Reading

For #BlueskyArtShow with the theme #New, I offer this shot of a Shih tzu puppy posed in a wood basket from the days when I was doing a lot of studio work. #Photography #StudioPhotography #PetPhotography #ShihTzu #Puppies #Dogs

Apple tree in blossom, circa 2009. #Scape #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Spring #InBloom #Blooming #Flowering

My friend Earle Davis at a Detroit coffeeshop. Earle is a trumpeter and jazz musician, who at 88 is still doing his thing. He moved to Detroit about 10 years ago after spending much of his life between New York City and Oakland, Calif. #HumansOfBluesky #Photography #Portraits #Musicians #People

Detroit’s People Mover elevated train reflected in the mirrored windows of a downtown building. #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetPhotography #Photography #Detroit #Mirrored #MassTransit

I’ve been going through my old studio work lately. This is baby Lincoln whose parents brought several outfits to the shoot, including this lobster one. I just happened to have a lobster trap. #StudioPhotography #Photography #ConceptualPhotography

For #StunDay, I offer this studio shot from 20 years ago of young ballerina Manet. #StudioPhotography #Dancers #Dancer #Ballerina #Ballerinas #Photography #FineArtPhotography

A man walks past an open train door on the People Mover overhead rail in the Greektown station in Detroit. #BlueskyArtShow #Opening #Detroit #StreetPhotography

New York City subway, 2004. See ALT for more background on how I took this photo. #HumansOfBluesky #UrbanGaze #StreetPhotography #NewYorkCity #Subways #MassTransit #Photography #Motion

My photo of the full moon shining through the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit is one of two of my images included in the Exposures Photography Exhibition opening today at the Lawrence Street Gallery in Ferndale, Michigan. #Photography #NightPhotography #Bridges #AmbassadorBridge #Detroit #FullMoon

How much has downtown Detroit changed? I took the photo at left looking west on State Street toward Griswold (Capitol Park) in 2012. I took the photo at right from about the same spot a couple of years ago. #Detroit #UrbanRevival #Photography #StreetPhotography

A man walks past street art of The Hulk on a wall in an alley in downtown Detroit, circa 2012. #TagTuesday #StreetPhotography #StreetArt #Photography #Detroit #TheHulk