Finding Alternatives When Things Aren’t What you Expected
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View Article2018 – A look back with Gratitude
As we head into the new year with hope for a better future, life, prosperity, world peace, etc., it’s always most helpful to me to look back over the previous year and build a Gratitude list. It was...
View ArticlePictures Worth a Second Look
Female Double-banded Sandgrouse, Pterocles bicinctus, Etosha National Park, Namibia. When I travel, I have little time to really delve into the photographs I’ve made. I’m usually too busy charging up...
View ArticleMigratory Geese Flying at Dusk
I had traveled around the levee roads a few times the afternoon this picture was made last year. A lot of the geese had lifted off the ponds from a ‘scare’ and landed over in a field of stubble....
View ArticleThe Power of Your Voice
Nature needs your voice! You may not know that considerations are underway by our current Department of the Interior whether to declassify lands that are presently national monuments, such as the...
View ArticleTelling stories of the Etosha Pan
My wildlife photography has mostly been about telling a story – by capturing a moment, a gesture, an interaction, of the animal(s). While I love portraits, too, gestures make the picture more exciting...
View ArticleMore Namibia Photographs
In all my crazy travel schedules this past summer/early Fall, I only did one post from our fantastic tour in Namibia! I can’t believe it. So here’s another posting from that journey. The trip was...
View ArticleThe Power of Your Voice
Nature needs your voice! You may not know that considerations are underway by our current Department of the Interior whether to declassify lands that are presently national monuments, such as the...
View ArticleTelling stories of the Etosha Pan
My wildlife photography has mostly been about telling a story – by capturing a moment, a gesture, an interaction, of the animal(s). While I love portraits, too, gestures make the picture more exciting...
View ArticleMore Namibia Photographs
In all my crazy travel schedules this past summer/early Fall, I only did one post from our fantastic tour in Namibia! I can’t believe it. So here’s another posting from that journey. The trip was...
View ArticleHouse Finches in Flight
They say practice makes perfect, but in this case, I think I simply got lucky!! I was practicing, however, over and over again, to capture these house finches as they skirmished in the air. A nearby...
View ArticleSeizing the Moment
Not all nature photography is easy, and the results don’t speak about the hours we slogged through a swamp swatting mosquitoes, or trudged up a mountaintop in fierce winds, etc. The results are what...
View ArticleThe Birds
If you didn’t like Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “The Birds” then you might not like some of the experiences in the wildlife refuges!! When the birds lift off and fly over your head, the sky darkens...
View ArticleGesture and Reflection = Magic
My trip to the bird refuge in January produced some favorite images of 2016 so far. The day began with a lot of clouds, then a slight clearing and a rainbow, then back to clouds for some time, and...
View ArticleTelling stories of the Etosha Pan
My wildlife photography has mostly been about telling a story – by capturing a moment, a gesture, an interaction, of the animal(s). While I love portraits, too, gestures make the picture more exciting...
View ArticleMore Namibia Photographs
In all my crazy travel schedules this past summer/early Fall, I only did one post from our fantastic tour in Namibia! I can’t believe it. So here’s another posting from that journey. The trip was...
View ArticleHouse Finches in Flight
They say practice makes perfect, but in this case, I think I simply got lucky!! I was practicing, however, over and over again, to capture these house finches as they skirmished in the air. A nearby...
View ArticleSeizing the Moment
Not all nature photography is easy, and the results don’t speak about the hours we slogged through a swamp swatting mosquitoes, or trudged up a mountaintop in fierce winds, etc. The results are what...
View ArticleThe Birds
If you didn’t like Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “The Birds” then you might not like some of the experiences in the wildlife refuges!! When the birds lift off and fly over your head, the sky darkens...
View ArticleGesture and Reflection = Magic
My trip to the bird refuge in January produced some favorite images of 2016 so far. The day began with a lot of clouds, then a slight clearing and a rainbow, then back to clouds for some time, and as...
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