I love to find patterns in shadows and forms in nature. Sometimes playing with them to have an entirely different look. Nature is quite dramatic and artistic herself, without much help, but it's fun to share the creativity with her.

1. Art in Nature- Part 2
 Photos and Descriptions
by Judy M Johnson
 As an artist, my eyes -and my
soul- want to see art in
everything.
 This is a collection of my own
photos wherein I see patterns,
colors, shadows… that say
“Art” to me.
Rocks are like living art to me.
This one large craggy odd-ball has found
its way atop older, more wave-rounded
basalt at Presque Isle Park Marquette MI
It’s as if it knew the scene needed more
dynamism more angles…so there he sits!

2. Willow leaves
duplicate
themselves as
shadows
in the water
and on
the sand,
Marquette MI
Photo by Judy M Johnson

3. Like a Rousseau
painting, this
jumble of greenery
only needs a few
wild animals to
become a
“Peaceable
Kingdom”
Marquette MI
Photo by Judy M Johnson

4. The Willow says
“I’ll frame this pretty
scene for you of
Lake and Clouds…
and by the way,
aren’t my leaves
lovely?”
Marquette MI
Photo by Judy M Johnson

5. A disheveled
Willow Tree flings
itself this way and
that while enjoying
the view of the old
oar dock over
there at Lower
Harbor .
It is quite aware
of the artistic
impression it
makes as it
spreads its
limbs and leaves.
Marquette MI
Photo by Judy M Johnson

6. Peeking through an opening frames the image beyond it and makes it kind of …well,
more art-y. This is shot through an ore dock with a “zoom” from Presque Isle Park Marquette MI, to
the not-so-pretty power plant for the oar mines. Not so much “nature” as it is USING it.

7. This is the no-longer-used ore dock at “lower harbor” Marquette MI.
The R. version I “art” altered by adding a pretty sunset taken at Lake Minnie, Ishpeming MI.
Anyone who knows this dock, knows there are no trees and no sunsets…as we are facing East.

8. Pontooning around Lake Michigamme is always a delight…good friends, adult beverages,
snacks and wonderful art-filled views. Who could ask for anything more?

9. Sunset Reflections at Lake Michigamme

10. Ahh, now we get to the
ROCKS! I love rocks,
always have. Never
ceasing to intrigue and
fascinate. They are
examples of the oldest
“living” parts of this
planet, and have so many
forms and substances
which make them up.
This one gives me a kick:
it’s lake-smoothed white
rock (limestone) on top of
“red rock” (Jacobsville
Sandstone- which can be
white, polka-dotted or
striped red and white)
Looking like a broken
dinosaur egg on an
ancient shore.
This is on the west
shore of Presque Isle
Park, a very geologically
diverse site.

11. Here is a whacked out
spinning version of the
photo just before this
one.
it’s lake-smoothed white
rock (limestone) on top of
“red rock” (Jacobsville
Sandstone)
Which, before I twisted it,
looked like a broken
dinosaur egg on an
ancient shore.
This is on the west
shore of Presque Isle
Park, a very geologically
diverse site.

12. Rough “red rock” away from the smoothing influence of waves (Jacobsville Sandstone) which can
be white, dotted or striped red and white) artfully arranging itself in an attractive tableau.

13. If stones are pretty in your hand, they are even prettier in the water when sunlight dances brilliant undulating
“brush-lines” across the varied stones: Black basalt, red Jacobsville sandstone, granite, quartz & more…

14. Aren’t those clever little granite rocks, arranging themselves so artfully
near a lighthouse, on a beach near Brimley Michigan!

15. There is that sunshine painting wet patterns on the red and white sandstone…
on a flat stretch of it off the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan.

16. To me, a variety of water-smoothed rocks basking in the sunshine of the Lake Superior Shore,
becomes a living painting in 3-D, here on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan.

17. Showing again,
how an image placed
in a circle somehow
makes it more
art-like.
Here’s a portion of
Rhyolite streaking
through Basalt at
the entrance to a
magical beach
called Hunter’s Point,
near Copper Harbor
Michigan.

18. I love how this red Rhyolite streaked through Basalt millions of years ago, blended by earth-forming volcanoes,
and worn smooth by eons of wave action, at a magical beach called Hunter’s Point, near Copper Harbor
Michigan. Small shiny red rhyolite pebbles display their beauty on a natural shelf.

19. When the rhyolite is wet, it’s redder. When the grey basalt is wet, it’s black.
At Hunter’s Beach, Copper Harbor Michigan. Did the wave paint a man’s profile?

20. Who is the angel artist who painted
this pointillist art in the rocks at
Hunter’s Point, near Copper
Harbor?
Shades of red rhyolite dot black
basalt, while satin-smooth pebbles
sit and contemplate the beauty of it
all.
Photo by Judy M Johnson

21. One scene is more entrancing
than the one before at Hunter’s
Point, near Copper Harbor?
Both red Rhyolites and Black
Basalt have been worn satiny
smooth by eons of wave action,
forming endless arrays of natural
earth sculptures.

22. No, I didn’t arrange those pebbles. They like to show off that way
sometimes at Hunter’s Beach, Copper Harbor Michigan.

23. One Beach Sculpture
is more delicious than
the next, at
Hunter’s Point, near
Copper Harbor

24. Can pebbles get much more
beautiful than these
lake tumbled stones at
Hunter’s Point,
near Copper Harbor?
I just want to EAT ‘EM!

25. Colorful lichen dapple
craggy basalt along the
north shore of the beautiful
Keweenaw Peninsula
Photo by Judy M Johnson

26. Golden sunset
intensifies the hue of
golden lichen on
craggy basalt on
“The Keweenaw’s”
north shore.
Photo by Judy M Johnson

27. Photo by Judy M Johnson

28. Photo by Judy M Johnson

29. Leaving my beloved home in the Upper Peninsula, I visit family in Virginia Beach. This nearly
endless city beach offers many compositions using only water and sand as the medium.

30. Sea-foam scribes Haikus onto the sand, on Virginia Beach.

31. Shadows paint a
remembrance of me
and my son
on the sand
of Virginia Beach.

32. Large Croton
leaves dance a
composition of yellow
and green stripes

33. Palm trees braid an
intricate pattern on their
trunks as old fronds leave
making room for new
young ones, as they live
and grow on
Virginia Beach.

34. Paint brushes masquerading as grass, waiting for something to paint: Virginia Beach.

35. That’s all for now, folks!
 All photos are copyrighted
by Judy M Johnson, 2012.
 They may be shared individually and enjoyed in such
locations as PINTREST, but never to be sold,
reproduced or used in any form, digitally, in print, in
media and the like.
If you DO put some up on Facebook-Pintrest, it
would be dandy for you to give me credit.
 I surely do appreciate your respect of my copyright.
Thank you.
 I’m a paper doll artist and publisher. (+ cards and notes, post
cards, craft art, coloring books, old & new.
If you’d like to visit, come see what I’ve got at
www.papergoodies.com All Best, Judy M Johnson