Rod Planck Photography – Gary R. Olejniczak Photography

Enchantment in Newberry

As a long-time resident of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP) and expert landscape photographer, Rod Planck has a truly remarkable knowledge of the region’s land and all that lives on it. In August 2018 I joined one of Rod’s workshops in the eastern part of the UP. This time of year, the cooling temperatures reveal dripping dew and a foggy atmosphere in the tamarack wetlands of

Kakabika Falls – Upper Peninsula Michigan

By Gary R. Olejniczak|2019-11-30T18:18:26+00:00June 20th, 2019|Tags: Forest, Kakabika Falla, Michigan, National Forest, Ontonagen River, Ottawa, Rapids, River, Rod Planck, Rod Planck Photography, Spring, Stream, Tannin, Upper Peninsula, Water, Waterfalls, Woodlands|

Creating images of woodland landscapes is among my favorite spring activities – especially when those images include roaring rivers with swollen banks and tannin-tinted water. I found just such a combination of elements along the Cisco Branch of the Ontonagon River while hiking in the Ottawa National Forest in 2017. This part of the river, a series of “S” turns dropping in elevation, is known