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Yesterday in the Prairie Meadow (Re-post)
Just got home from a quick, 2-day photo trip to northwest Missouri’s Squaw Creek NWR, a very special place to visit … especially in the fall and spring bird migrations. The reason for the trip? How about 200+ Trumpeter Swans! I’ll post about the trip very soon … but I have to first download and […]
Posted in Landscape Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography
Tags: Arachnid, Blog, Cass County, dew, fog, insect, landscape, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, prairie, spider, spider web, summer
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High Activity
If you read yesterday’s post “Simple Beauty”, I mentioned kayaking to check out a local population of American Beavers (Castor canadensis). With this year’s drought conditions, the water level is really low. In fact, most of the beaver lodge is now above water! Well, after photographing the great foggy landscapes for a while, I paddled […]
Posted in Mammals, Nature Photography, Photography from a kayak
Tags: beaver, behavior, Blog, Cass County, fall, fog, kayaking, mammals, Missouri, nature, nature photography, photography from a kayak
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Simple Beauty
A few mornings ago, I took an early morning kayak trip at a nearby waterway, to check on a beaver population. I arrived ~45 minutes before sunrise and launched “Rubber Ducky” and headed toward the beaver lodge. This morning was a great morning to be on the water. A bit on the “chilly” side (air […]
Minnesota – Split Rock Lighthouse (Re-post)
(This post originally published in August, 2010) Over the past week, I have been photographing in Minnesota. My wife’s family had a family reunion this past weekend and we decided to travel several days prior to the reunion, so that I could photograph some of the landscapes and wildlife on the trip. The first day […]
Horse Play, Bison Style
As we left our motel in Gardiner and headed around Yellowstone’s upper loop road, on our way to Hayden Valley, we ran into heavy fog in the Tower Fall area, so we had to stop to make a few images: As we neared Hayden Valley, the fog began lifting and soon […]
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Tags: behavior, bison, Blog, fog, mammals, National Park, nature, travel, Yellowstone NP
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Anan Creek, Alaska 2011: A Black Bear’s Heaven!
If you’ve been following my Alaska photo workshop blog posts, we are nearing the 3/4 point of our trip. But first, 2 days of shooting at Anan Creek! Since we spent a lot of time here, I will be sharing several posts about Anan Creek and it’s famous inhabitants … the Black Bear (Ursus americanus), […]
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Tags: Alaska, bear, black bear, Blog, fog, Inside Passage, mammals, nature, rain, travel
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