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Category: Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan Water Patterns

The views of Lake Michigan are ever evolving, but I especially love watching the water patterns on a calm day. With a few slight changes to wind speed, surface currents, or light direction, you can experience an entirely new view within a very short period of time.

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Lake Michigan Themes

I’ve always enjoyed waking up for sunrise — they are absolutely beautiful to see in person (and it makes afternoon napping a little easier). When you begin watching sunrises and sunsets on a continual basis, you start to notice patterns and similarities that are fun to discover. Here are a few images with similar themes.

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Lake Ice Patterns

Winter is my favorite time of the year to take long walks along Lake Michigan. With the freezing weather, the lake forms new shapes and abstract patterns that are a delight to explore and photograph. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has forecasted a warmer winter for the Great Lakes Region, so I’m not

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Connecting Art with Advocacy

My photographs capture the beauty of the Chicago lakefront, but they also represent a link between the ecology of the Great Lakes and our human dependency on the environment.

The perception is that our region possesses a seemingly endless abundance of water — but this misconception distracts from the fragility of this freshwater ecosystem and undermines its importance.

Using art as a pathway for discovery, I invite you to embrace the aesthetic joy I find while exploring the lakefront — and learn more about the natural world surrounding us.

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