ABSTRACT 8544 "Maple forest abstract" Sometimes its fun to play around with shutter speeds and create some abstract images with an otherwise "ordinary" scene. This image is a 1/2 second exposure of a stand of Maple trees. I shot the image hand-held, without the use of a tripod and panned the camera vertically during the 1/2 second exposure.

ABSTRACT 8586 "Light on water" On a very cloudy morning just after sunrise, the sun peeked through the clouds just long enough to illuminate the water as it washed over this rock on the Lake Superior shoreline.