A bee pollinates an allium flower along the Dequindre Cut in Detroit this past week. #StunDay #MacroPhotography #Nature #Macro #Bee #Honeybees #Honeybee #Bees #Insects #Flowers #FloraAndFauna

From 9 years ago, the downtown Detroit skyline framed between trees as seen across the Detroit River from Belle Isle. #Scape #Cityscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Detroit #City #Skylines

A member of a Detroit bicycle cruising club poses with his e-bike prior to a ride earlier this week. There’s a huge bicycle culture in Detroit with hundreds of people showing up for weekly cruises. #StreetPhotography #HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze #Photography #Detroit

The atrium overlooking the Detroit River in the main tower at the Renaissance Center in Detroit (circa 2012). GM moved out of the tower earlier this year. #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetPhotography #Detroit #RenaissanceCenter #Photography

Mural in Detroit’s Eastern Market. #TagTuesday #StreetArt #Murals #Mural #StreetPhotography #Detroit

A wood duck in the Huron River in Ann Arbor. #BirdOfTheDay #WorldOceansDay #WoodDucks #Ducks #birding #Waterbirds #wadingbirds #Waterfowl

For #StunDay, here is a studio shot of a ballerina tying her slipper (circa 2006). #StudioPhotography #Photography #Ballerina #Ballet #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Dancer #BalletDancer #Dancing

Supino Pizzeria in Detroit’s Eastern Market (circa 2016) at night. #Scape #Cityscape #Photography #StreetPhotography #NightPhotography #Detroit #EdwardHopperInspired

I photographed these two girls on a carousel along the Detroit riverfront on an evening earlier this week. I waited until the right moment when they came out of the shadows into the light. #HumansOfBluesky #UrbanGaze #StreetPhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Detroit

For #WindowsOnWednesday, here is a photo I took in May of two men seen through the rear window of a classic pickup truck. #StreetPhotography #Photography #OldPickups #ClassicCars #CarCulture

An American goldfinch feeds on seeds from a thistle. #Fringillidae #BirdOfTheDay #Finch #Birding #Birds #Wildlife #AmericanGoldfinch #Finches #Photography #BirdPhotography

For #StunDay, I offer this photo I took this past week of a great blue heron in a fen along the riverfront near downtown Detroit. #Birding #BirdPhotography #Photography #WadingBirds #BlueHerons #Detroit #Wildlife

Lily in the courtyard garden at the Scarab Club in Detroit from a couple years ago. #BlueskyArtShow #Growth #Flowers #Lilies #Lily #Flower #Summer #Gardens #Nature

Met my buddy Earle Davis, a jazz trumpet player, for coffee on the patio of a coffee shop on Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit Thursday. At 88, Earle still gets around town on his bicycle. #ColorADay #BWFri #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Detroit

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