Pictured Rocks

Pictured Rocks Seacaves
Pictured Rocks coastline
Now's the time, when the water calms down and warms up, the days are long, to go out for a kayak at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. The sometimes 200ft sandstone cliffs, colored from minerals seeping thru the rocks makes for a very unique and awe inspiring experience. Just make sure you are knowledgeable of the shoreline, and only go out on the calmest of days, as there's nowhere to take out if you are somewhere along the shear sandstone cliffs.

wierd summer

lake superior thunderhead
Thanks to everyone that visited us at Art on the Rocks this year. Sunday was especially not too kind to me this year, with what seemed to be a typical lake effect system dumping loads of rain Saturday night into Sunday and flooding out my booth location. Hats off to the Art on the Rocks crew for action in constructing a makeshift pallet floor to allow me to at least not have to pack up and leave Sunday morning. Wow, has it ever been cool and rainy in this part of the country this summer. Should lead to an especially brilliant color season this fall. Hope I have time to get out and do some photography as we have a very busy schedule already.

back from Ann Arbor

Just wanted to thank everyone that stopped by our booth in Ann Arbor 2009 this past week. We had our most successful show to date in the three years we've been doing art shows and I can't thank you all enough for your interest and support of our photography. If our conversation got cut short by how busy it was, hopefully we'll see you down the road at another lower Michigan show such as Arts Beats in Pontiac Labor Day weekend or Birmingham Common Ground show in late September.

With sincere gratitude,
Shawn and Brian Malone

Sarychev Volcano Sunset

I finally got to see a volcano sunset, and was it ever a treat. Last night the skies cleared and I saw the telltale white streaks way up in the stratosphere as the sun was setting. After the sun went down, the incredibly saturated colors appeared, with the "volcanic lavender" being very visible in crespiscular rays. This sunset had to rank up there with some of the best I've seen over Lake Superior. Just incredible.
Sarychev Volcano Sunset over Lake Superior, Upper Peninsula of Michigan