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Body-slammed by an Oystercatcher

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Whooooo gives a hoot?!

  We do! We were wandering down from Steptoe Butte in the Palouse on our last morning of the photo tour. One of the participants said she had three things on her ‘checklist’ and they were ‘an owl, crop...

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Flights of Fancy

Here I come, dear!   Yesterday, in the midst of packing to head out to Yosemite, I just had to squeeze in a few hours in the morning to go photograph. Anything to avoid doing the less fun things of...

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A bird in the Hand…

      “A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH” ——— Or is it the other way around, in photography?!! We were wandering towards the Keewenaw Peninsula and stopped when we saw this great berry patch...

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Puffins!

    My photo tour group  in Lake Clark National Park this past July was such fun, and they were all really good photographers. We were there mostly for the bears, so the horned puffins (Fratercula...

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Migrations

  After I left Yosemite in a winter’s dream, I headed for the central valley refuges where I like to observe and photograph the migrating geese and cranes. It wasn’t the best weather the first...

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Light, Color and Design in Arizona Desert

  I know that it’s the ‘dead of winter’ in many parts of the USA, but in Arizona, spring is just around the corner! Spring begins in mid to late February and runs through April, with a succession of...

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Which do you like?

A.   B. I am finally getting through most of the images from Winter in Yosemite (my oh-too-brief trip) and my wildlife refuge images. In a previous post I had shown a foggy scene of birds, and I have...

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Gesture 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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The 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...

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Seizing 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...

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House 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...

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More 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...

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Telling 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...

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Gesture 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...

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Image may be NSFW.
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The 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...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Seizing 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...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

House 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...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

More 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Telling 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...

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