Craters of the Moon National Monument is a smallish spot in Idaho (and not really all that close to anything) that is a “vast ocean of lava flows, islands of cinder cones, and sagebrush” – and when I was there, biting cold winds and snow!…
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Canyonlands National Park is only a short drive from Arches National Park and I managed to squeeze them both into one day – it was a bit rushed so I mainly focused on making sure I checked off the main highlights. Mesa Arch is one…
Right after photographing the moose mother and calf I posted a few weeks ago, I turned and saw this little chipmunk not far away. Since I already had the telephoto lens out and ready to go I figured I’d try to get some photos. As…
During a hike in Grand Mesa, I came across a couple of these strange areas of rocks. They looked like they had at one point been little ponds, but they were quite dry now… but the weird thing was that it didn’t look like the…
Ok – I did have another post scheduled for today, but it got bumped to tomorrow because this is just too cool to let sit. During tonight’s dive, as we were gearing up, some other divers came out of the water and reported that there…
During my time in Florida, I would often see Snowy Egrets (Egretta thula), but it was usually as they would fly away. They seemed a thousand times more skittish than any other birds I was seeing in Florida, which was unfortunate because they really are…
I’m not going to waste a ton of time typing words for the Colorado National Monument photos. I’m not even going to look up the names of some of these various rock formations. I’m just going to share these photos and know that they don’t…
During our rain delay of our desert hike in Rattlesnake Canyon, Rich and I popped over to Grand Mesa for about a day and a half. During that time, we went out for a couple hikes, and I had asked a Forest Ranger if there…
My last few days in Colorado, which season I was in seemed to depend on the elevation… Just a slight difference of only a couple hundred feet made the difference between beautiful autumn among the aspens or the first snowfalls on the mountains.
A very colorful Lantern Bass (Serranus baldwini) that let me get rather close for a very nice headshot…
I made two visits to Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge (RMANWR from now on), both when I was picking Rich up from the airport and again after dropping him off because it is basically right next to the airport. The refuge basically consists of…
I converted a couple shots of the river otter I saw at Riverbend Park into black & white… the results are almost perfect in my opinion.
