Close Encounters of the Wild Kind
It’s been a busy week and I’ve gone from here to there. In spite of the multiple o-dark-thirty departures, being out in nature certainly made up for the sleep deprivation. Last weekend I had a...
View ArticleShorebirds Galore!
Last week I headed to the Delaware shore in search of migrating shorebirds and in particular the Red Knot. I knew the Red knot would be elusive as the reports I had studied on the Cornell University...
View ArticlePelicans on the Chesapeake Bay
Growing up in Florida with Brown pelicans all over the place, it’s hard to imagine that this Jurassic looking bird was once an endangered species. Due to over hunting and DDT pesticides by 1970 the...
View ArticleLavender and Lensbaby
Canon 100-400mm This past weekend I heard about a Lavender festival being held at Springfield Manor in Frederick, Maryland.For once I didn’t have a photography class I was holding, the house was clean,...
View ArticleA Watermen’s Way of Life on Smith Island
There’s a place on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland that is remote and seems as if time has stood still. Smith Island is a 45 minute ferry ride from Crisfield, Maryland and many don’t venture over...
View ArticleThe Nik Collection by DXO
Nik Color Efex Pro There is a great software plug in that I use along with Lightroom and Photoshop that I use primarily for some of my landscape images. the Nik Collection by DXO has been recently...
View ArticleLovely Lotus
Summer time is flower season and Maryland offers some beautiful fields of flowers that people travel from surrounding states to visit. The Lotus flowers at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens are truly...
View ArticleThe Stars are Out with the Olympus
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA The older person’s lament..I can’t sleep ! Well, that’s what happened to me today. I woke up at 1:00 a.m. wide eyed and tossed and turned for a while. Since I had already planned...
View ArticleBirds & Blooms
The one place I can say one can get birds and blooms together each year is at the sunflower fields in Poolesville, Maryland at McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area. Three fields of sunflowers are...
View ArticleSmith Island Boats
Who needs a car when you can have a boat instead. Returning back to my archives from June and remembering some of the wonderful things we discovered on Smith Island one thing truly stood out. As an...
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