About Me

I am a retired attorney and an amateur landscape photographer located in the State of Michigan in the United States.  I started this blog many years ago as a place for me to link to things of interest that I found on the Internet and that I might want to share with others.  It was a lot easier to tell people to go to my blog than to try to remember where all those interesting things were located on the net.  Over time, as my interest in photography became more serious, I decided to use this site primarily as a place to share my photography when someone asks to see it.

The word “amateur” comes from the Italian word “amatore,” which means one who does something for love rather than money.  That’s me.  I am not in the business of selling my photography. I pursue landscape photography as a way to connect with and enjoy the natural world and as a way to grow intellectually.  I enjoy studying the history of photography and the work of other landscape photographers, present day and from the past.  I recently presented two lectures on the history of manipulated photography for Aquinas College’s OLLI program, and at the Hope Academy of Senior Professionals at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.  In addition, I am working on another lecture about the Guggenheim Fellowship projects of Robert Frank and Todd Webb in 1955, which I will deliver at the Aquinas College OLLI program in November 2025.

I am also not in the business of collecting “likes” or building a following. I genuinely appreciate it when one of my photos brings pleasure to someone else, but I photograph for me and not to become the next Internet sensation.  That said, I welcome you to subscribe to this site so you get an automatic email whenever I post new photos.  I don’t sell the list or send newsletters or other email to anyone who subscribes.

Unless otherwise noted, all of the photographs I post are my creations and are subject to my copyright. Any copying, use or reproduction requires my consent. You can contact me at Rodney.D.Martin@gmail.com.  My images are created in the eyewitness tradition to present a truthful depiction of the natural world. I do not use generative artificial intelligence to create images that I did not experience in the real world.  This is important. I believe that when people no longer believe that a photograph is real, then photography will have lost its unique ability to communicate reality.

P.S.  I started this blog on a platform called Posterous, which eventually shut down. I then moved the blog to WordPress. The transition was not smooth and many links were broken in the process or have snapped over time. I have never gone back to fix or delete them, for which I apologize.