Courting the Muse

As a photographer / artist inspiration is all around me but I cannot always find it and as the saying goes – I can’t see the forest because of the trees.

I must open my mind and my camera lens and court my Muse appreciating that I might not find the picture I am looking for but discover the photo that opportunity gives me.

On a recent fall day driving aimlessly the back roads in the western part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula I crest the top of a hill to discover a phantasmagoria of falls delight.

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I park my car and ramble around this panorama camera at the ready.

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Also in my drive I find an old mining town now a museum and photo the fall colors mirrored in the old windows.

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I enjoy the trees around me as I thank the Muse for allowing me this happenstance of life and beauty.

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