Dan Miller of Lafayette is a longtime, excellent nature photographer, focusing on birds in particular. Holding degrees in biology and chemistry, he ended up settling in Lafayette, Indiana, and discovered The Celery Bog across the river in West Lafayette. Here conditions were favorable for his bird brain to converge with his inner photographer. He is an author, photographer, and world-class wilderness explorer. He publishes a daily blog, and has three ebooks, Birds of the Bog, available in the Apple bookstore and TheBookPatch.com.

Thursday is also competition turn-in for August. The topic is "Water" and the format is digital. The judge is Bob Zyromski from the Indianapolis Art Center. How to enter PVCC competitions.