While sorting some image files on my laptop, I found this one of two Semipalmated Plovers, Charadrius semipalmatus, that I digiscoped during a visit to the barrier islands off Chatham, Massachusetts using the first Swarovski spotting scope (a borrowed one) that I ever carried out into the field. Recalling that, I suddenly realized that I […]
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Photo Interlude: Sometimes…
…it all just comes together. The bird, its posture, the light, the background – all the good karma you’ve accrued over many years of diligent study and work is cashed in all at once as the price of admission to witness the perfect photographic moment. My souvenir of that moment? This image of a Caspian […]
Photo Interlude: Multnomah Falls
Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area is the second highest year-round waterfall in the United States (620 feet from its source on Larch Mountain to its basin beside the Columbia River). Its extraordinary accessibility from I-84 just east of Portland, Oregon makes it a very popular subject for both amateur and […]
Photo Interlude: Woolly Bear
A familiar Autumn sight here in the Pacific Northwest, the caterpillar of the Isabella Tiger Moth, Pyrrharctia isabella, is much better known to children and adults alike as the Woolly Bear. Legend has it that the width of the orange band predicts the severity of the coming Winter – the more orange visible, the less […]