Notes from the Field
Diablo Mountains, Arizona – Ancient America
After a sudden burst of inspiration followed by a rather long spell of very interesting projects that barely touched in the realm of my photography mainstay, I'm back with a new project that embraces a new set of principles I've been incorporating into my life -...
Desert Canyon Summer Wildflowers with an Unexpected Waterfall
Quick post after being on a month-long hiatus with twelve new photos! Earlier this summer I was wandering through the maze of desert canyons between Yakima and Ellensburg, Washington in the eastern foothills of the Cascade Mountains and found quite a lot of incredible...
Birds of Los Angeles, California: Brandt’s Cormorant!
New photos! Recently passing through LA, I had a bit of time for a quick stop at the beach to check out the local shorebirds..... Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) Cormorants (family Phalacrocoracidae) are medium to large fish-eating waterbirds found...
Texas Frogs and Toads of the Rio Grande
This is going to be a post of few words and a lot of pictures. This past spring, there was a massive thunderstorm the day I was traveling through New Mexico toward the Big Bend National Park of West Texas. By the time I arrived, the Chihuahuan Desert sun was back out...
My Cactus Project: A Labor of Love…
If it may seem like I've been a little quiet lately, it's for good reason. I took on a personal project of an enormous magnitude that while I'm still working on it now, I have enough of it put together to show and share with the world. After a recent trip to...
A Forest of Native Orchids!
Last weekend I took some time off for camping, hiking and some much-needed R&R with my family in the Wenatchee National Forest in the mountains near Roslyn, Washington. While I wasn't looking for things to photograph (I was on a mini-vacation after all - which in...
Colorado Desert Wildflowers
Quick post today from a even shorter stop just outside of Mecca, California in the dry and arid Colorado Desert where I found some very beautiful trees in flower and an interesting flowering bush that brings in loads of hummingbirds! Blue Palo Verde with Beans This...
Wildlife of Southern Arizona
As I was starting to put this post together, I kept adding so many images that it got a bit ridiculous so I decided to break it up into three parts. None of the images in this are necessarily from the same place in Arizona, but cover the entire lower half of the state...
California Sea Lion Yearling
A few weeks ago I flew into Los Angeles, California to start my 2015 southwestern nature photography trip, and within 20 minutes of being released into the wild I stumbled into this yearling California sea lion. I could tell instantly that something was not right. It...
The Birds of Southwest Florida
Quick post for today on some of the more common birds of Southwest Florida, such as anhingas, herons, egrets and hawks. These species are most often found near or on the water. Anhinga Also known as the snakebird, the anhinga is a common fish-eating bird found along...
West Texas Scorpions and the Guadalupe Mountains!
For those who know me, have hiked with me in the outdoors, or had been to my home in the early 2000's, they will know that I am an acute arachnophile. My love for arachnids developed as a kid growing up in my hometown of Bradenton, Florida where one could find all...
White Sands, White Dunes, White Clouds, Blue Sky
Last week I happily knocked off another entry written down in my bucket list. I visited White Sands National Monument in New Mexico and it was so much better than everything I had hoped for! I'd read a lot about the area before I arrived over the years and nothing on...