I am proud to be partnering with Quiet Light Publishing and The Sweetwater Seas documentary team to offer these Fine Art Posters from our film on all five of the Great Lakes. We currently have 24 Fine Art Posters for sale on the Quiet Light Publishing storefront. They are available in two sizes – 24″x36″ and 20″x24″. Each is printed on Fine Art Archival paper to our exacting standards. You can see and purchase any of them using this link: The Sweetwater Seas Fine Art Posters.
Need to get some late shopping done? Well how about ordering a signed copy of one of my books – great gifts! You can choose from my first book The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes which chronicles the journey of the Corps of Discovery like you were with them. The images were done at the same time of year the expedition past by these places and words for the journals of Merriweather Lewis and William Clark alongside many of the images describing what you are seeing. There is also a Limited Edition version of the book which includes three fine art prints!
http://shop.quietlightpublishing.com/the-lewis-clark-american-landscapes/
You can also purchase my second book Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes which looks at parts of our most visited National Park from a perspective those in the park have said is the best they have seen. http://shop.quietlightpublishing.com/great-smoky-mountains-national-park-thirty-years-of-american-landscapes-by-richard-mack/
You can get autographed copies using the link to Quiet Light Publishing’s online shop. You can also purchase both books together at a specially priced savings. Prints, Note Cards and Folio’s of small fine art prints are also available!
Quiet Light Publishing online shop: http://shop.quietlightpublishing.com/
Happy Holiday’s!
Richard
Last week I had the pleasure of working in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore with George Elder as part of our Great Lakes Project The Sweetwater Seas a documentary on all five of the Great Lakes and their beauty and environmental issues and how we use these lakes.
We went to Sleeping Bear because it is not one of the most beautiful places on the Great Lakes it is one of two dunes which lay on bedrock so they have become tall and do not naturally sink back into the lakes. The other is the Au Sable Dunes on Lake Superior. We also went to shoot the story about of the US Fish & Wildlife and National Park Service has worked together to bring the Piping Plover back from near extinction to a growing group of birds. These tiny shorebirds nest right on the beach and continue to come back to the same areas they were born in. At one time they were down to about 7 pairs and are currently up to around 70 pairs. We were fortunate to have Vince Cavalieri and Sue Jennings work with us. While we thought we might be able to see some parents sitting on their eggs they had all hatched the few days before we got there. But we were able to photograph and videotape hatchlings only a few days old along with their parents running along the beach. They are quick little birds so it took a lot to keep them in the frame! Especially as I was using a Canon 500mm lens, sometimes with a 2x convertor to make it 1000mm!
The dunes themselves gave us a look at the beauty found in Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore. Sunsets along the north shore of Michigan were stunning with clouds and fog giving us stunning views and clouds to capture on film and a background to show how people enjoy these places.
To see more of the still images I shot you can use this link: www.mackphoto.com/BlogImages/SleepingBear Fine Art Prints will be available soon in the Quiet Light Publishing shop!
Cheers,
Richard
Well it has actually been two weeks since posting last from Big Thoughts Pond, I guess writing every Friday didn’t work so far! Well in the last week we’ve realized change in plans is inevitable! Diverse weather, fun changes every day with family in town for a week of sightseeing in Chicago – something you generally don’t do if you live here ironically.
Cubs vs Yankees and the storms!
And fun it was – we saw the cubs beat the Yankees and their pitcher had never been beaten by a Major League team yet and had a 42-0 record between here and Japan…what a night of storms, lightning and a sting for those Yankee fan’s…one of them with us…sorry Ted! And change is change…Cubs lost in 13 the next day…
And of course today is the 62nd birthday of Smoky Bear!
Some interesting things on the Great Lakes from posts about algae blooms and micro plastics in the water to the Sweetwater Seas project keeping moving forward… new logo by Rich Nickel, plans for shoots over the next few weeks and forward we move…and now for some real fun as John Manos, the writer on The Sweetwater Seas plays with his Cuban band at Montrose Beach tonight! And then a meteor shower.
Enjoy Memorial Day weekend! And thanks to all our veterans who have made given us so much to let us live in this country.
Cheers,
Richard
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