Wrapping up reading “Life and Art,” a collection of a dozen essays by novelist Richard Russo. I picked this book up after reading his early essay collection “The Destiny Thief.” I wasn’t disappointed. Russo’s “Bridge of Sighs” remains one of my favorite books . #BlueBrewBooks #Books #RichardRusso

Photographed the Cupid’s Undie Run in downtown Detroit on Saturday. Dozens of people in various stages of undress took a run around Comerica Park in the cold to raise money for the Children’s Tumor Foundation. #UndieRun #CupidsUndieRun #Detroit #PhotoJournalism #StreetPhotography #Photography

Photo from a few summers ago of a crew team and escort boat on the Detroit River at dusk with the MacArthur Bridge and the downtown skyline in the background. #Scape #CityScape #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Detroit #GoldenHour #Silhouettes #CrewTeam #Rowing

I read two books this past week: Virginia Evans’ epistolary novel The Correspondent, and The Water is Wide, Pat Conroy’s memoir about the year he spent teaching on an impoverished South Carolina island. Both books were good reads, but I didn’t want The Correspondent to end. #BlueBrewBooks #Books

Tahquamenon Falls in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in February 2023. #StunDay #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Michigan #Waterfalls #TahquamenonFalls #Winter #Waterfall #Outdoors

Winter scene in rural Michigan circa 2005. #Scape #LandscapePhotography #WinterScene #RuralScene #Photography #Michigan #Winter #Snow #FarmScene #Landscape

I took this photo in 2005. It was one of those glorious, warm fall nights, and people were lined up at the ice cream parlors in Ann Arbor. This Ben & Jerry’s is on State Street in the University of Michigan campus area. #UrbanGaze #StreetPhotography #AnnArbor #NightPhotography #Photography

A man walks along Gratiot Avenue in Detroit during a 2023 snow storm. #Winter #WinterPhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Detroit

I’m recommending Anthony Doerr’s “About Grace,” which I finished reading this past week. I’m a big Doerr fan and this, his first novel, did not disappoint. Read ALT for a mini review. #BlueBrewBooks #AnthonyDoerr #Books #Reading #Literature

Downtown Detroit skyline mirrored on a small lake on Belle Isle at sunset. #Clouds #BlueSkyArtShow #LandscapePhotography #Detroit #DramaticSky #Photography #Cityscape

A man waits outside a liquor store at night in Southwest Detroit (circa 2021) #StreetPhotography #Scape #Cityscape #NightPhotography #Detroit #SouthwestDetroit #EdwardHopperInspired

Homeless person bundled against this week’s frigid temperatures in Detroit’s Eastern Market. #HumansOfBluesky #StreetPhotography #Detroit #Homeless #Winter

Ran into this guy Monday on Belle Isle in Detroit. #BaldEagle #Birding #Raptor #Birds #BaldEagles #Detroit #Raptors #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography

Icy ruins of an industrial building that was destroyed in a fire earlier this week. #BlueskyArtShow #Cold #AbstractPhotography #Icy #Photojournalism #Detroit #Abstract #Winter

Snow blankets the trees and monuments in Detroit's historic Elmwood Cemetery. Winter 2018. #Scape #LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Detroit #Winter #Cemeteries #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Photography

The People Mover elevated train reflected in the windows of a downtown Detroit building. #WindowsOnWednesday #AbstractPhotography #Abstract #StreetPhotography #Detroit #Mirrored #Reflected

Fallen tree branches in a frozen creek on Belle Idle in Detroit. #StunDay #Photography #FineArtPhotography #FineArt #Landscape #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Winter #Detroit #LandscapePhotography

Coast Guardsmen from the Belle Isle station practice ice water rescues on a small lake on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, on Thursday, Jan. 15. #Winter #USCoastGuard #IceRescue #Detroit #PhotoJournalism #Journalism

Positano, Italy, 2007. #StunDay #TravelPhotography #Photography #Travel #Italy #Italia #Positano #Architecture #Europe

A carnival worker admonishes two boys. 2004. #HumansOfBluesky #UrbanGaze #StreetPhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Carnivals #Monochrome #ClassicMonochrome #NightPhotography

Carnival 2004, Hamburg Township, Michigan. #ClassicMono #StreetPhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Carnival #Carnivals #NightPhotography

Happy New Year to my Blue Sky friends. #NewYear #HappyNewYear #StudioPhotography #Holidays #Westies #WestHighlandTerrier

Woman walks past a mural in Detroit's Eastern Market, July 2016. #TagTuesday #StreetPhotography #Detroit #Mural #Juxtaposition #StreetArt

Sorrento, Italy, 2007. What I like about this photo is the layers. The first thing you see is a couple outside the store but look in the door and you see a woman and two kids playing at a computer. At right two people descend a stairway. #StunDay #StreetPhotography #Italy #TravelPhotography #Travel

For #BlueSkyArtShow this is a #Holiday photo of Happy, my friends’ Coton de Tulear from a studio photo shoot I did a few years ago. #Photography #PetPhotography #Dogs #CotonDeTulears #StudioPhotography #DogPhotography

Merry Christmas to all my Blue Sky friends. This is Zoey, a Westie who was a great little studio model for me long ago. See ALT for a heart warming Christmas tale involving Zoey and this photo. #ChristmasDay #MerryChristmas #PetPhotography #Photography #StudioPhotography

I don’t know if this fits into the theme #WackyWednesdayArt but pretty cute I think. This is Happy, my friends’ Coton de Tulear from a studio photo shoot I did a few years ago. #Photography #PetPhotography #Dogs #CotonDeTulears #StudioPhotography #DogPhotography #SuperDogs

Mural featuring Eminem and other hip-hop artists in Detroit’s Eastern Market. #Eminem #Hip-hop #Rappers #murals #StreetArt #TagTuesday #Photography #Detroit #NightPhotography #StreetPhotography #Hip-hopArtists

For #StunDay, I share this 2007 image of a small sidewalk cafe in Sorrento, Italy. See ALT for more info. #Photography #NightPhotography #StreetPhotography #Italy #Italia #TravelPhotography #Travel #Europe

I’m taking a little darker interpretation of today’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #OpenHouse This was taken a few years back on New Year’s Eve. #StreetPhotography #NightPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Detroit #Photography

Sorrento, Italy, 2007. #ColorADay #BWFri #Black-and-whitePhotography #StreetPhotography #NightPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Italy #TravelPhotography #Italia #People #Women #Bicyclist

A construction crane is reflected in the windows of a high-rise building in downtown Detroit. #WindowsOnWednesday #AbstractPhotography #Mirrored #Reflections #Photography #Detroit #Abstract #Windows

The Red Bridge. Belle Isle in Detroit from a couple years ago. #StunDay #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Detroit #WinterScene #Winter #Landscape

The Whitefish Point lighthouse on Lakefish Bay, Lake Superior, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula a couple of winters ago. #Scape #LandscapePhotography #WinterPhotography #Winter #Michigan #Lighthouses #LakeSuperior #WinterScene

Window washers in Florence, Italy, in May of 2007. #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetPhotography #NightPhotography #Photography #TravelPhotography #Italy #Italia #Florence #Travel

The downtown Detroit skyline silhouetted against a fiery #sky at dusk as seen from the MacArthur Bridge to Belle Isle. #BlueSkyArtShow #Cityscape #LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Detroit #GoldenHour #dramaticsky #Photography

In a world full of Mr. Potters, be a George Bailey. #It’sAWonderfulLife #PlymouthMichigan #ThePenn #Christmas #Holidays

The carousel along the Detroit Riverwalk on a snowy January day in 2023. #Detroit #Scape #LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Carousel #Winter #WinterScene #Snow

The welcoming glow of golden light at night through the windows of West Side Book Shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the summer of 2021. #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetPhotography #AnnArbor #AnnArborMichigan #NightPhotography #Bookstore #Bookstores #Books #GoodLight

The front of Michigan Central, the former railroad station in Detroit’s Corktown returned to its grandeur by Ford Motor Co. #StunDay #NightPhotography #Detroit #RailroadStation #HistoricBuildings #Architecture

Misty morning on the Bay of Naples in Sorrento, Italy, 2007. #Scape #Seascape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Landscape #TravelPhotography #Italy #Italia

Ochie wanting me to stop reading and give her some attention. #CatsOfBlueSky #Cats #Felines

A bicyclist rides past The Broadway in downtown Detroit in the winter of 2018. The building has since been razed for redevelopment. #UrbanGaze #StreetPhotography #NightPhotography #Detroit #HumansOfBlueSky #BlackAndWhitePhotography

The former Giordano’s Pizzeria on Broadway in downtown Detroit in February of 2018. #WindowsOnWednesday #Photography #NightPhotography #StreetPhotography #Detroit #Urban #City #Michigan

Ventured out into the cold last night to photograph the annual Canadian Pacific Holiday Train roll by Michigan Central station in Detroit’s Corktown. #NightPhotography #Photography #HolidayTrain #Christmas #Detroit #MichiganCentral #Railroad #Trains

From my bike ride Saturday, a seagull purchase on a pole along the Detroit Riverwalk. #StunDay #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Painterly #DramaticSky #Detroit #DetroitRiver

A pair of kayakers pass by the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory on Detroit’s Belle Isle on a summer afternoon (circa 2016). Yes, I’m missing summer already. #Scape #LandscapePhotography #Detroit #BelleIsle #Kayaking #Summer #Scenic

A young family heads to the beach in Sorrento, Italy, in May 2007. For me, this has a bit of a Norman Rockwell feel to it. #HumansOfBlueSky #StreetPhotography #Photography #TravelPhotography #Travel #Italia #Italy

A young woman sits in the bay window of a coffee shop in Plymouth, Michigan. #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetPhotography #Photography #CoffeeShops #Cafés #LightAndShadow #GoodLight #DramaticLighting

A moored fishing boat glows in the waters of the Bay of Naples in Sorrento, Italy, in the golden hour before sunset in May 2007. #BlueSkyArtShow #Bright #TravelPhotography #Travel #Italy #Italia #Boats #LandscapePhotography