Nature Moments

Book Moments is Taking a Break! updates and future plans Planning for my next serialized project - visit the essay to vote for your favorite!

Nature Moments by Sydney Michalski is a free weekly newsletter where I share nature photography + stories to encourage you to be curious, be amazed, and do it again!

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Hello, lovely discovering that the thing you're making plans for was already unfolding, all along It just might be, in a season that looks like nothing but a desperately tangled wasteland, that my plans are already growing in hidden spaces, reaching towards a future light.

Nature Moments by Sydney Michalski is a free weekly newsletter where I share nature photography + stories to encourage you to be curious, be amazed, and do it again!

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What Am I Supposed to Do? a nudge from nature about the nature of life There’s this very special quality of the natural world that often fascinates me. All the many and varied living things in nature are always doing exactly what it is that they are supposed to be doing.

Nature Moments by Sydney Michalski is a free weekly newsletter where I share nature photography + stories to encourage you to be curious, be amazed, and do it again!

♡ to view the photography that accompanies this week’s episode, visit sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/what-am-i-supposed-to-do

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The Background Matters. in photography, and in real life! No matter how fabulous your subject is in person, in your finished image, the background will affect how your subject comes across. It’s just a point of practical photographic reality.

Nature Moments by Sydney Michalski is a free weekly newsletter where I share nature photography + stories to encourage you to be curious, be amazed, and do it again!

♡ to view the photography that accompanies this week’s episode, visit sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/the-background-matters

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Butterfly Photography: A Practice in Optimism nothing stretches the muscles of optimism more than chasing butterflies! My advice? Be an optimist. Chase the butterflies. Because no matter what else happens, the chase is always good for you. 🦋💕

Nature Moments by Sydney Michalski is a free weekly newsletter where I share nature photography + stories to encourage you to be curious, be amazed, and do it again!

♡ to view the photography that accompanies this week’s episode, visit sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/butterfly-photography-a-practice

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Rising: A New Twist on a Familiar Story when the Promethea Moths emerge, the world is full of surprises :) Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Egg-Caterpillar-Cocoon-Moth….Such a familiar story for such a marvelous transformation; so fantastic that it has become a treasured life metaphor for many a hopeful heart!

Nature Moments by Sydney Michalski is a free weekly newsletter where I share nature photography + stories to encourage you to be curious, be amazed, and do it again!

♡ to view the photography that accompanies this week’s episode, visit sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/rising-a-new-twist-on-a-familiar

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Singing Out of His Tail Feathers sometimes you don't get a photo, but you still get a story! This is a story about an American Goldfinch, who looked like he was singing out of his tail feathers, and why all the best stories are worth repeating!

Nature Moments by Sydney Michalski is a free weekly newsletter where I share nature photography + stories to encourage you to be curious, be amazed, and do it again!

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In Search of Light the art of holding competing strands of life within a single heart. Golden hour is just designed for contemplation…I wander out into golden hour light when my heart is uneasy, because seeing more deeply is an anchor in a world that can run a little stormy.

Nature Moments by Sydney Michalski is a free weekly newsletter where I share nature photography + stories to encourage you to be curious, be amazed, and do it again!

♡ to view the photography that accompanies this week’s episode, visit sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/in-search-of-light

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The Thing About Dandelions or what I learned about cultivating the soil of my mind. We will always have weeds…But the soil we build today will ease the labor that lies ahead.

Nature Moments by Sydney Michalski is a free weekly newsletter where I share nature photography + stories to encourage you to be curious, be amazed, and do it again!

♡ to view the photography that accompanies this week’s episode, visit sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/the-thing-about-dandelions

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Take a Deep Breath and other advice from nature that is very, very wise! Sit with nature, and let nature sit with you. When all you can do is be, that's enough.

Nature Moments by Sydney Michalski is a free weekly newsletter where I share nature photography + stories to encourage you to be curious, be amazed, and do it again!

♡ to view the photography that accompanies this week’s episode, visit sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/take-a-deep-breath

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