In some parts of the country December means winter. But as I write this in central Texas right now (December 27), it is about 80F outside and kind of hot. So, there is no chance of snow and most of the vegetation has either gone dormant for the ‘winter’ or doesn’t care and is still… Read More The Color of December
It’s December and you know what that means – it is sorta like fall here for a couple of weeks. Anyway, I went to the lake to shoot wildlife but they have had the park open for deer hunting during the week and all the deer were either hiding or in someone’s freezer. So, I… Read More Fall
It was Thanksgiving morning. The expected clouds might be good for a sunrise. All I had to do was wake myself up at about 5:30AM and go out to the wildlife refuge with my camera. No problem, I can usually wake myself up at about this time by force of will. At 6:30AM on our… Read More Five Photos
I went to the fish hatchery Sunday morning to practice wildlife photography. The Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery is run by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and is open to the public. I was worried that it might be closed due to the current situation of extreme incompetence of our Congress, but the gates… Read More Six Birds
Haven’t had a lot to post lately as I have been doing a lot of non-photography related things. But anyway, here are some butterflies from my backyard. In the middle of summer, I impulse-bought a bag of wildflower seed to throw in my large planter by the back fence. Didn’t know what to expect, but… Read More Butterfly Garden
Rialto beach on the Pacific coast is part of Olympic National Park. And after the girls had fun seeing Forks, the setting of the Twilight movies, we drove down to the beach. It was a gray day but not raining. I doubt anyone would want to go swimming here anyway as the water is cold.… Read More Gray Day on Rialto Beach
I didn’t get to do a lot of hiking at Olympic National Park either as I was mainly entertaining the girls. I did however take one day to myself and went hiking and let the girls entertain themselves in Port Angeles. Port Angeles is a very walkable town with a lot of shops and places… Read More Hurricane Ridge
As you may have guessed from my previous post, I went to Mount Rainier National Park after hanging around in Seattle for a couple of days. I was on a trip with my three girls so I didn’t have any delusions about going out and spending all day hiking and taking beautiful photos. What photos… Read More Mount Rainier from the Road
A city skylines kind of demand a panoramic format as they are typically much longer than they are tall. And this is pretty straightforward in the daytime (and without water). But I wanted a city skyline after sunset and there was a lot of water in the foreground to make things more complicated; I’ll explain.… Read More The Skyline Night Pano
I went to the park to shoot birds, but the pond was empty of birds. So, I wandered around the pond and saw a lot of dragonflies, which aren’t all that interesting photographically I guess. I was going to give up and go back home until I came across a scene of several dragon flies… Read More Dragonflies
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