Category: Nature Photography
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Flash Mob
What makes photography an strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. ~John Berger My macro light has been giving me trouble for a while now and we finally put in an order for a new one last year. It has been on backorder ever since. I started looking at reviews Read more…
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Huntington Portraits
Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual. ~Kehinde Wiley Last weekend I drove down to Myrtle Beach, SC, for a surprise birthday party for my friend Scott. Of course, I had to visit one of my favorite birding and photography spots while I was there, the nearby Huntington Beach State Park. The causeway leading Read more…
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Camera Captures
These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost The trail cameras continue to capture moments in the lives of our woodland neighbors. Here are a some clips from the past couple of months to Read more…
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Winter Wonderland
Through the weeks of deep snow, we walked above the ground on fallen sky… ~Wendell Berry I alluded to this trip in our last post when I whined about missing our “big snow” at home while we were away. Well, we were away in our happy place, Yellowstone. And, even though it is experiencing a Read more…
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Refuge Ramble – Pocosin Lakes and Mattamuskeet
Our public lands – whether a national park or monument, wildlife refuge, forest or prairie – make each one of us land-rich. It is our inheritance as citizens of a country called America. ~Terry Tempest Williams Last week was another of those times I really appreciate our public lands. I spent four days on the Read more…
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From Above
If you want to look at the same place and see different things, look at the same place from different perspectives! ~Mehmet Murat ildan While we were away over Thanksgiving, our good friends had family (their son and his fiancé) in town and he brought his drone. They flew it over their house and posted Read more…
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Colors
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson When we think of autumn, we often think of fall colors, specifically the onset of the kaleidoscope of colors created by the changing hues of tree leaves. But there are many other fall colors to enjoy that require looking down, not up. Here is Read more…
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Trail Cam Delights
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. ~Boris Pasternak The heat of summer seems to have slowed the activity around the trail cameras in our woods, but sometimes, amid all the images of squirrels, raccoons, and wind blown leafy branches, there is is a jewel that really makes me appreciate the 24-hour Read more…
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It’s the Small Things
Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination. ~Rudolf Arnheim I’m blaming it on our month-long trip out West Read more…
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Air Traffic Uncontrolled
A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after. ~Pete Seeger The Evening Grosbeaks continue to delight us by devouring sunflower seeds every morning in a feeding frenzy of yellow, black and white. My high count was one day Read more…
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