What's Happening Find the latest and most recently updated information about what I have been doing on this page. I hope to change it frequently. Shooting Schedule Spring, 2008 Spring Wildflowers and Wildlife, Southeastern Michigan Early Summer, 2008 Wildflowers and Scenics in the Les Cheneaux Islands and Eastern Upper Peninsula, Michigan Fall, 2008 Fall Colors, Scenices, and Wildlife, Upper Peninsula, Michigan .		**** NEW **** Creative Photography Workshop Spend and evening with wildlife photographer Bruce Montagne as he takes you on a creative journey with images and conversation describing some of the tips he uses to create his award winning photographs. Montagne will cover pre-trip preparation and field practices that will help photographers of all skill level and artists take their photography to the next level. The class is held at the studio of artist Heiner Hertling, on Main Street, in Milford, Michigan. The cost is $40 per person. Call Bruce at 248/685-7240 or Heiner's Studio at 248/529-3817 to register. Workshop Dates Wednesday, June 18, 2008: 7pm-9pm "Lake Superior Secrets" Helps Raise Funds The Michigan Nature Association recently completed a successful 3-year, 3-million dollar fundraising campaign to purchase properties for 10 nature preserves. Some of these are new preserves and some will be additions to existing sanctuaries. I teamed up with the association, using my book "Lake Superior Secrets", and loon print "Water Taxi", to raise roughly $65,000 for the fund raiser. It was a privilege working with such a dedicated group of people who work so hard to save these special places. These areas provide many fantastic photographic opportunities. I was grateful my work could be used to give back in such a positive way.	Awards & Honors  Nature's Best Magazine Annual Competition, 2001 Finalist Red fox mother with pup. National Parks Magazine Annual Cometition, 2000 Second Place (5,000 entries) "Where Birches Live" A photo of birch tress living in an abandoned copper mine from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition, 1996 Finalist "Ancient Traveler" A glacial erratic boulder is entombed in the grips of a large white pine in Northern Ontario. See "Light Stories," below. Animals Magazine Annual Competition, 1995 Grand Prize Photograph of two white-tailed does grooming each other. The grand prize was a trip to photograph baby harp seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Quebec's Wild Hurricane On a recent trip to eastern Quebec, hurricane Katrina arrived just two days after I did. In one night, ten inches of rain fell in ten hours. I found myself stranded in Reserve Faunique de Port-Cartier–Sept-Iles with no way out. The main highway along the coast was washed out in 18 different spots. After five days, I was able to get a ferry to the south shore of the St. Lawrence Seaway. From there I visited three other parks in the region. I was never able to photograph woodland caribou which was one goal for this trip.   Here are a couple of images from that trip. Click on each one to read a little more about them.
		The Best of Nature Photography Amherst Media New York, 2002 Selected as one of 38 photographers featured in the book.

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