exploring nature’s infinite connections
Last year I began a task to start converting my old online galleries over to a new format based on Wordpress. It involves not only the behind the scenes moving things around organizationally, but a culling of a lot of images, as well as redeveloping many with my...
This field is about a 2 minute drive from my house. I normally could just walk here, but it is not always a final destination for me. I noted quite a few deer gathering in this field one evening and told myself I was going to start checking it out in the mornings...
I am still digitizing some old 35mm slide photographs via my D800, and this series I came upon is from 2002. We had a few yards of dirt delivered to our backyard, and covered it with a tarp to keep it from blowing around too much. That tarp sat undisturbed for...
I have been itching for some more practice with wildlife and my D800. Since I don't have the Nikon expensive vertical grip, my frame rate is limited to 4 fps (frames per second) in FX mode, and the camera can do 5 fps in DX mode. The vertical grip would give me up...
The past couple of days have me taking in some of the local wildlife activity in my yard. I am glad to see a couple of green frogs have taken up residence in our pond. It took some time for this one to get used to me and my camera being close by. Realizing I...
Sister Island Rock Iguana (Cyclura nubila caymanensis), Image #RE-9593, Little Cayman Island, Caribbean As I mentioned in some of my previous posts about Little Cayman, the island currently has very little development on it, only about 4% of the total area. Most of...
This past week I had planned to spend a day down at Magee Marsh in Ohio with hopes to catch part of the bird migration underway. This area is a well known migrant trap, where many birds stop to rest and feed before making the flight across Lake Erie. Birding...
Sometimes the smallest wildlife encounters can give the biggest joys, and this was the case this past weekend. For the very first time, I stumbled upon my first salamander in the woods. Red-backed salamanders (plethadon cinereus) as I understand are one of the...
I learned an important identification tip this morning in processing this image. I wasn't quite sure whether this is a Green Frog or a Bullfrog. I have a number of ID books on frogs, but the first one I turned to wasn't very good in giving the key hint to telling...