exploring nature’s infinite connections
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a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.. Swamps were generally seen as useless and even dangerous.. These are a couple of definitions I pulled off the web regarding the word 'swamp.'...
I don't spend enough time in my own yard photographing the many critters that come to visit here. I have been pretty fortunate to catch a few rare ones, like the Coopers Hawk that was visiting for awhile. But I haven't really spent enough time photographing the more...
I heard a fantastic story on my NPR podcast today, an interview with the authors of a new book on the songs of insects, Wil Hershberger and Lang Elliott. You can hear it here. As they mention in the story, there is an abundance of information about bird song, even...
Apple seems to be on command and conquer roll. They just introduced an update to their internet browser Safari, previously an exclusive for Macs, but now for Windows as well. Since I do all my web design on a Windows PC, it is difficult for me to check the appearance...
Despite a clear morning and fairly calm weather, I didn't go out shooting today. A carryover headache from the prior night just killed my motivation. Instead I slept in and decided to catch up on some website tweaks and image editing I have had on my to-do list for...
For the longest time now I have made these types of images that appear as part painting, part sketch, part photograph. Really it is a bit of whimsical camera play just by making exposures while doing anything BUT holding the camera steady. The objects (usual trees)...
I find myself wanting to push the limits of maximizing contrast for many of my spring images lately. I think it adds, for lack of a better term, perhaps a bit more drama to a photograph. It takes a bit of a detour from presenting spring as I normally have, time to get...
Something I was thinking about when processing this lady slipper image was how gritty and 'hard looking' it was becoming, and how that is normally the opposite of how flowers are portrayed. Perhaps one might stereotype flower photographs as being 'pretty',...