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Man moved by the beauty of nature. Photographer, writer, poet, filmmaker, and vestige of a kinder era.
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Ice with puddled meltwater reflects a row of trees in a sky lightly tinted by sunset.
January 28, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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Moment of peace. Perhaps a quick respite from the anguish and sadness of the day for some of us. A glimpse of color tonight as the sun set among lake effect snow showers. #sunset #ohio #nature #winter #sky
The silhouettes of pines on the left and the trunks and limbs of short young trees in the middle and on the right line the bottom of the photo. A purple cloud with a soft edge covers the right side of the sky. A yellow band that dissolves into a very light green tone near the top of the image reveals the darkening backdrop. Orange and deep purple clouds in the distance are seen behind in the lower left of this sunset photo.
January 28, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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Winter color. Delicate colors in a winter landscape. Captured in the Wintergarden/St.John’s Woods Nature Preserve, Bowling Green, OH. #landscape #winter #trees #nature #ohio #hiking
Snow covered ground holds grasses, bushes, weeds, and saplings tightly under a light blue sky with white clouds stretched thin. Red and dark brown stems, black and gray bark, and light brown sticks provide color in what is usually a monochromatic season.
January 23, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Over frozen fields. A January sunrise with a cloud shield above and the sun finding a way to briefly shine. #winter #sunrise #rural #nature
A furrowed field is dusted with snow as the sun rises behind a line of silhouetted trees. It’s orange light fades to a light purple and pink color on layer of clouds overhead. The scene will soon be gray as the sun will climbs higher than the base of the clouds.
January 22, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Farm in winter. A cold but mostly sunny January day puts a local farm in some good light. #rural #nature #winter #ohio
A red barn with a green roof stands next to a brown silo with a silver metal top. Leafless trees sleep near the barn, and white snow clings to the roof which is in shadow. Brown dead grasses lean to the right in the field that leads to the fence that surrounds the farmyard. Above is a blue sky with white puffy clouds.
January 22, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Double doe. Two white tailed deer wonder why the two legged creature stopped to look at them. #deer #nature #hiking #ohio
With snow on the ground and dark brown underbrush providing cover, two female white tailed deer stare at the camera.
January 20, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Winter promise. The sun assures the land it is still there, but the clouds do not relent on a cold morning in January. #sunrise #nature #clouds #sky #maumeeriver #ohio
Purple clouds catch orange light from a rising sun. A hole reveals a light blue sky beyond. Along the horizon trees of a river bank are silhouetted against orange and reddish bands of clouds, with dark water weakly reflecting the colors on its rippled surface.
January 20, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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Light snow at sunrise. A rising sun managed to peek through the edge of snow clouds overhead at sunrise today. #sunrise #winter #snow #ohio
A pink and orange haze surround a small yellow patch of light where the sun poems under a cloud dripping snow. Silhouetted trees cross cross the view of a slowly moving river that reflects the color with a carpet of white snow on both banks in this sunrise photo.
January 18, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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Winter walk in the woods. Today in Wintergarden/St. John’s Woods Nature Preserve, Bowling Green, OH. #winter #nature #trees #blackawhite #hiking #ohio
Brilliant white snow contrasts with black trees casting gray shadows. The sun is a white orb filtered by tree branches in this winter scene in a forest.
January 17, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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Beginning in blue. Well before sunup Monday morning as the only motion was the flowing water. #sunrise #winter #blue #nature #clouds #sky #hiking #ohio
A deep blue cloud layer begins to glow orange from the rays of a sunrise beyond the horizon. The water of the river reflects the warm color, as leafless trees line both riverbanks in this sunrise photo.
January 15, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Morning prelude. Thick colors in the clouds yesterday, as the sun found the edge of the blanket, and filled the sky beneath with warm light. #sunrise #winter #nature #hiking #maumeeriver #ohio
The sky is painted in shades of purple, pink, and orange until it meets a silhouetted tree line on the far river bank. The water is a textured mirror catching and reflected the orange sky above. Branches from saplings and bushes on the near bank frame the scene in this sunrise photo.
January 14, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Winter joy. The sky celebrated this morning in a way all could see. #sunrise #nature #winter #clouds #maumeeriver #ohio #hiking
Brown dead grasses on a rocky riverbank lead to rippled water and the black silhouette of trees on the far bank. The sky above glows in orange and yellow near the horizon fading to pink and purple, then gray. A crevice in the clouds reveals a sky with a blue-green tint beyond in this sunrise photo.
January 13, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Solemnity. The blue of the approaching night washes the remnant colors of sunset from the sky tonight. An old tree stands as witness. #sunset #winter #sky #trees #ohio
A large tree is silhouetted against a sky that fades from blue to a faint pink with a yellow band beneath, and a deep red ribbon along the horizon. Trees further away are stenciled in black on the colorful canvas of sunset tonight.
January 12, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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Shrouded in clouds. The well known Reynisfjall mountain hidden in the clouds with the stark Reynisdrangar seas stacks near Vík, Iceland. #nature #iceland #blackandwhite
Gray clouds hang low covering a mountainside above the ocean with a single bird flying towards silhouetted sea stacks in this black and white photo.
January 12, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Buck in the woods. Today in Wintergarden/St. John's Nature Preserve, Bowling Green, OH. #nature #deer #winter #ohio #hiking
Tall thick trees with gray and brown bark rise from the forest floor dusted with a light coat of freshly fallen snow. Between the trees, a white tailed buck walks cautiously. His black nose, surrounded by white, sniffs the cold air. His ears scan for unfamiliar sounds. They are outlined in black with the rest of his fur a brown that blends with the tree trunks.
January 12, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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Troubled sky. Captured an emotion that seems to fit right now, February 24th, 2020. #winter #sunset #nature
A blue sky is smeared with heavy gray streaks and lines white tufted clouds tinted a weak pink by the setting sun over a silhouetted line of trees. Uneasy clouds and troubled thoughts in this sunset photo.
January 10, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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When darkness has the upper hand. Near sunset on a heavily clouded day along the Maumee River in December of 2021. Appropriate for today. #sunset #nature #clouds #water #maumeeriver #ohio
Thick and dark gray and blue clouds blot out the sunset except for one sucker hole of blinding yellow light above the tops of silhouetted trees on the far bank of river. The empty silhouetted branches of a tree on the near bank blindly reach out for warmth and comfort in this sunset photo.
January 8, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Iconic Aldeyjarfoss Waterfall in Iceland. Simply breathtaking. From July of 2018. #waterfall #iceland #nature #aldeyjarfoss
Brown rock surrounds a waterfall of white. Gray hexagon rock columns line the exposed rock face on either side of the cascading water.
January 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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December dawn. The sky comes to life slowly as night retreats along the Maumee River. #sunrise #nature #winter #water #trees
Silhouetted trees rise in a sky filling with light as dawn approaches. Deep blue fades to a lighter shade with like pink clouds green tones, then light yellow with dark orange clouds near the horizon in this sunrise photo.
January 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Flat and gray until. Sunset provided a little surprise color today. #sunset #sky #winter #gray #rural #ohio
A gray snow covered field leads to a line of silhouetted trees at its far end. Above a flat gray sky is suddenly illuminated with a deep orangish red at sundown.
January 3, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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For the New Year: Hope.
Dawn breaks over a partially frozen river. Its edges are lined with snow and ice colored purple from glow of the sky. Dead plants poke through the snow with the footprints of an animal visible. Trees are in silhouette on both banks. At the horizon, a band of bright yellow meets the purple cloud layer that seems to be dabbed by an artist's brush with orange and pink. The open water is a mirror to the colorful sky in this sunrise photo.
January 1, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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Triple sun. Strange optics were afoot as the evening sun seemed to be in three places at once on January 23rd of 2022. #sunset #winter #sun #clouds #water #trees #nature #maumeeriver #ohio
Unknown optical conditions made it appear the sun was in 3 places as it prepared to set on January 23, 2022. Thick gray clouds part enought to reveal a glowing yellow ball near the top of the image. Just below it in an eye shaped hole a second yellow orb appears. Below that a third bright spot smeared by the clouds liights the sky to its left and right in yellow light. The water of the river reflects the gray and yellow, with silhouetted trees and snow covered rocks on the river bank.
December 31, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Carving valleys. Aerial view of a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve from June of 2025. #alaska #denali #glacier #ice #mountains #nature
A ridge line of brown and green is surrounded by white snow in the foreground. Just beyond, is a striped glacier rounding a curve at the base of a large mountain. The lines lead to a grouping of other peaks, with a sky filled with haze above.
December 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Burning Sky. Monday’s sunset reminded me how small we are
on the surface of this rock. #sunset #trees #clouds #sky #nature #ohio
A weak gray sky is coated in a blanket of purple clouds, worn thin in spots. A bright red glow near the horizon, behind the tree line rises like the light of a distant fire. Even with the face of the sun gone from the sky, its presence remains, like a memory of fine meal or deep conversation.
December 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it! Aurora captured on November 11, 2025. #christmas #northernlights #nature
A house in a rural location with red lights outlining its roof line, and green lights shining on its front is dwarfed by the red and green aurora above it!
December 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM