Notes from the Field
Cardinal Flower
Today's post is about one of my favorite wildflowers found in the swampy hardwood forests along the Gulf Coast - the cardinal flower. I was hiking through an area near Bristol, Florida called the "Garden of Eden Trail" when I spotted this super-vibrant beauty from...
Black-necked Stilts
Quick post for today. I've been sitting on this photo of a trio of black-necked stilts for a while because I saw something in it, but it just didn't look right. Then I had one of those "a-ha!" moments and cropped it from a horizontal "landscape" orientation to a...
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja linariifolia)
As is often the case in wildflowers, telling one species from another can be exceedingly difficult. Especially when there are naturally occurring hybrids, same species with wildly variable physical attributes and just geographically separated populations of the same...
Muskrat! A Giant Semi-Aquatic Vole in Northern California
A few days ago, I was traveling through Oregon and took a little dip into Northern California to spend some time in the wetlands of the Klamath Basin. My aim was to photograph migrating waterfowl as well as check out some of the local landscapes. It was sort of a...
Looking Out from Behind the Waterfall – Oregon’s North Falls
Last night I was wrapping up a quick four-day nature photography road trip in search of new images and ideas when I found myself standing behind North Falls - an insanely beautiful and violent waterfall just gushing with snowmelt just east of Salem, Oregon. Because I...
Ghost Orchid Photographed from an Unusual Angle
Ten years ago I spotted my first wild ghost orchid in the Fakahatchee Strand of Southwest Florida after literally years of exhaustively searching the wetlands and wading through enormous tracts of swamp following a grid pattern on a worn-out, folded-up survey map....
American Strawberry Bush
The American strawberry bush - also known by many other names such as the "hearts-a-bustin" and "hearts-bustin'-with-love", is a native member of the bittersweet family is one of those oddly beautiful plants you find sometimes in autumn while out in some of the more...
Bow River, Banff National Park
There is nothing as beautiful as the mist rising like wildfire smoke over a river on a very chilly Canadian Rocky Mountain winter sunrise This morning was no different than any other on the slippery edge of the hoarfrost-crusted Bow River just west of Calgary,...
Canada in Winter: Illecillewaet River and the Mountains of Rogers Pass
Recently I was in Canada's westernmost province of British Columbia in the middle of winter, powering my 4x4 SUV through ice and snow, climbing higher and higher into the sky along the Illecillewaet River aiming to head over Rogers Pass so I could make my way further...
Death Camas – America’s Most Poisonous Native Lily
Quick post for today. As I was going through our lily gallery images while getting things ready for our new upcoming North American Nature Photography website relaunch, I found four images of the really cool meadow death camas from last spring that I shot, edited and...
Abstract: Tresses of Pure Light
This is something very different from me, and vastly different from my normal style, but I have to give credit where credit is due. I've decided to call this piece "Tresses of Pure Light". Amazingly talented professional photographer, consummate outdoorsman and...
Reflections on Mount Rundle and Vermillion Lakes
So far as I continue to edit and prepare my landscape images from my recent trip to Banff National Park where I attended the HIGHLY recommended International Landscape Photographers’ Association Summit last month, this image on Mount Rundle is my favorite so far. ~...