Fun Friday: Hitching a Ride

By Jim | Published December 29, 2017




This Fun Friday post comes from my last trip to the Venice Rookery. While photographing the large variety of birds arriving at, departing from, and nesting at the rookery, I captured this Laughing Gull flying over with a hitchhiker, a frog:      

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Ribbbbit!

By Jim | Published July 23, 2015




  Yesterday morning, I did something I haven’t been able to do in a long time … a very long time. I loaded up my gear and headed out with the kayak (“Rubber Duckie”) for a wonderful morning of nature photography. I was able to get out a couple of times last summer, but the […]

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Unexpected Surprise

By Jim | Published April 30, 2015




Yesterday was a very successful day in the field. While conducting another woodland wildflower, in-the-field workshop, I found a “life” wildflower … a few Jack-in-the-Pulpits, which I’ll share in an upcoming post. After the workshop ended, I decided to check out the nearby natural prairie for progress with wildflowers there. On my trek through the […]

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Testing the Limits

By Jim | Published March 1, 2015




While editing some older images, I found a couple of images captured from the kayak, of a small frog “hiding” in a lily pad. Reviewing the image data, I realized these images were made by hand-holding the camera/macro lens combo. I used a very small aperture to throw the background out-of-focus. This also caused a […]

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Fun Friday: Ribbitt

By Jim | Published March 28, 2014




On warmer days, I’m beginning to hear a chorus of frogs from our pond behind the house. Reminds me of the time I kayaked up to a large lily pad with a frog hidden inside: Patiently awaiting when I can once again kayak among the lily pads and experience some more wonderful surprises! By the […]

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Fun Friday: Froggie Travels by Air

By Jim | Published February 21, 2014




During my last day at the Venice Rookery (I spent 3 mornings photographing the roosting/nesting birds of the rookery), I decided it was time to capture some birds as they flew back to the rookery, carrying stick and branches in their beaks, for nestbuilding. I had been shooting great egrets and great blue herons as […]

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Breakfast hors d’oeuvres (Re-post)

By Jim | Published October 21, 2012




(Originally published July 2010) On my last kayak outing, I was hoping to see Momma Raccoon (Procyon lotor) with her 5 kits again. They are so much fun to watch/photograph. Mom is very patient with them; while she forages for food and tries to teach them the ropes, some of the youngsters follow her closely, […]

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Another Fun Friday

By Jim | Published April 22, 2011




Time again for another “Fun Friday” post, just a simple but fun photo! Today’s photo is a rather large bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) that I found some time ago when driving around Squaw Creek NWR, located in northwest Missouri. I was on a 10-mile auto tour, gravel road and the frog was right in the middle of […]

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