The Straits of Mackinac are very treacherous with shoals (rocky reefs), wildly quick depth changes and currents that work in mysterious ways. Many years ago more than a hand full of lighthouses were built to try to protect boaters from their demise. One of those lighthouses was Fourteen Foot Shoal, aptly named after the depth of the water at this location. Fourteen Foot Shoal Lighthouse is located in Lake Huron between Cheboygan and Bois Blanc Island. Even though the Lighthouse is no longer owned by the U.S. Coast Guard, it is still used to aid in navigation and is inhabited entirely by heaps of Cormorants.
Sometimes I love showing scale in my photography, it gives a better sense of the environment at these shots. If you look closely you can see a person at the bottom of the falls. This is a early fall photograph at Tannery Falls (sometime called Rudy Olson Memorial Falls) in Munising, Michigan. This photograph is also available without the person in the photo.
Sometimes large waves bring some usual things to the shore. While visiting the Point Bestie Lighthouse during a gale warning I noticed the waves were bringing in some usual colored sand to the shore. Although I love doing landscape photography, I couldn’t turn down this abstract/semi-macro photograph.
