• Monday-What'sUP June 6 - 10:01 pm

The first hours of daylight here in the Upper Peninsula can be enchanting, but add some morning dew and everything you look at takes on a different perspective. Take this spider web with the morning droplets clinging to it, that Misty Bond discovered and preserved for all of us to enjoy. It's amazing how those drips just hang on so precariously, without making the web sag, thus illustrating the strength of the tiny strands forming the web. Then move to the next shot, captured by Roger Kangas and your wonderment increases as you notice the reflection in the suspended droplet. It gives a clear look at the scene, which is slightly blurred in the actual photo. If you have a high-speed connection or just don't mind waiting for the larger file to load, check out the full size shot to get a better view!

With all this talk of drips and drops, we need to keep our fingers crossed that there are no dribbles of rain to dampen the Pasty Fest 2005 activities taking place on July 2nd, in Calumet. Not to worry if the raindrops do fall though, since they really didn't dampen the spirits of anyone who attended last year's event. Only 26 more days to make your plans to savor a delicious U.P. Pasty and enjoy the festivities!

Great pictures, and the single drop is WOW!

Nature's gems....pearls, diamonds, more fragile, more ethereal, priceless and yet free....what a deal :) Wonderful shots! Thank you.

Love the spider web.

These are very difficult shots to make work for the internet and more so when enlarged 8x10 or greater. The Zman did a marvelous job with his droplet enclosing an image several years ago.

MTU hosted an earth day event photo contest judged by National Geographic professional photographer Jim Brandenburg. The results of the contest are posted as well as all 80 entrys from the students and the public at large. Go to this URL to veiw: http://www.esc.mtu.edu/EarthWeek2005/photocontest/default.htm
regards,
Donn

Misty and Roger, such great pics :)

Good Morning, I love today's pictures. The second pic. looks like there's a person in a boat reflecting in the water droplet.

I love how it focuses on the single drop of water. real neat

Absolutely amazing!!!! Can't stop looking at them. (I smell a WOW!)

the web of life weave...

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive"

-Sir Walter Scott

great link, Donn. Thanks.

you are very welcome...

WOWEEE!! To both pics.... 'the best pictures on the web'!
Thanks so much to the Photographers!

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

--William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"

CHECKING THE BRIDGE CAM, LOOKS LIKE THE COPPER COUNTRY IS BASKING IN THE LIGHT, EH?

I really like the way these photographers see Art in the ordinary things that in the hustle and bustle of life, we often miss.

Great Pictures Donn, Thanks

The web on the web is way to cool.

The droplet of water...outstanding.