Notes from the Field
The Songbirds of Winter
This morning started off with snow and by noon, the snow had melted and the sun was out resulting in a beautiful bright, cheery day at just above freezing: my kind of weather, and stuck in my office was the last place I wanted to be. So I grabbed a camera and a zoom...
An Eagle’s View
So often as is the case, I am en route to my photography location du jour which my inner nerd has neatly located, diagrammed, planned, and studied when movement out of the corner of my eye puts a snag in my orderly system. I was climbing into the Cascades Mountains...
Resolutions, Flaws and Triumphs!
First images of 2012! New Year's Resolutions: things that are usually unrealistic goals that rarely last past January 7th. I generally do not make these type of resolutions because my life seems to be governed by the unexpected and the weather. I've decided to...
These Dizzying Heights – The Green River Gorge
I may need my readers' help with this one..... I am stuck between two images that are very similar and shot at very nearly the exact same spot. One is in color, the other on black and white. Last week there was a break in the constant rain and I went on a...
Slithering Beauty of the Cascades
Last August as I was just learning my way in a totally alien environment in the Cascades Mountains, this newcomer from Florida was searching for exotic wild orchids in Stevens Pass east of Seattle. Constantly looking over my shoulder for that great white shark of the...
Mountain Stream with a Touch of Snow
I think I'll let the image do the talking for me on this one.... Mountain Stream with a Touch of Snow ~ Mount Rainier, Washington ~ see more images like this ~ LAKES, RIVERS AND WATERFALLS GALLERY ...
If it Looks Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck…
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands." ~ Douglas Adams There is a park in Medina, Washington that has become my private outdoor office over...
American Caesar’s Mushroom
Sometimes I find a beautiful specimen in nature that I simply just can't identify. Tonight I finally identified a beautiful red mushroom I photographed five years ago in Fakahatchee Strand of Southwest Florida's Western Everglades. I knew immediately it was an...
A Face only a Mother Could Love
Vultures: nature's clean-up crew, scavengers, the nastiest animals alive - whatever you want to call them, they are essential in the promoting health and well-being in nature. They eat the dead, and thus prevent the diseases and harmful germs of rotting and...
Silver Falls on Mount Rainier
I've been shooting wild and natural landscapes in many locations in the United States for a long time now. One of the most disastrous things a photographer can do is get lazy when shooting new places. It happens to the best of us, and everyone does it: we get too...
Feels Like Home…..
Short post for today. Sometimes we make a couple of mistakes in making a photograph, but see so much in it that we still like that we decide to try do a little digital magic to flush out what it was that we like and cover up the mistake(s). ~ click to enlarge ~ That...
The Florida Sandhill Crane – Sentinel of the Okaloacoochee Slough *Updated*
When people think of Southern Florida, they rarely think of lonely mile after mile of endless cow fields and citrus groves, or the acres upon acres of sugarcane that would resemble the enormous cornfields found in the Midwest if it weren't for the sweltering heat....