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Out of the Shadows
When there’s dappled light and an animal moving through it, you hope it’s all going to line up for you, even if just for a moment. How many people have walked along this path, oblivious to the wildlife creating a niche right beside it?
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Stellar’s Breakfast
I came upon this Stellar’s Jay and its mate early in the morning, digging a hole in the ground with their beaks. After a few minutes, one of them came up with a buried nut and hopped up onto a snag with a triumphant rattling call. I’d never never seen a Stellar’s Jay retrieve cached…
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Hello Old Friend
I don’t photograph urban Coyotes in the summer months. In the city, they’re mostly active around dawn and dusk, and I don’t quite have it in me to wake up at 5 am on the weekends. So as the days have been getting shorter, I’ve started looking for my favorite Coyote family. It took me…
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Poised
A Great Blue Heron watching and waiting for a fish to swim by. I don’t usually get too fancy with foregrounds, but when I saw a tiny window in some greenery between me and the heron, I figured out a way to get just its head un obstructed and was pretty happy with the result.
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Stellar’s Jay
Someday I’ll make an artistic composition with a Stellar’s Jay, but for now I’ll keep contenting myself with decent shots of one out in the open.
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Angel of Death
From this spring, a Great-Horned Owl lands on his favorite perch before starting his evening hunt. I had hoped to do create an even better version of this photo, but right after I figured out the perfect composition, the owl shifted his pattern and stopped using this perch to start his night. On that evening,…
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All Fun and Games
After this Coyote caught a squirrel, it carried it into a secluded area and then played with it for a few minutes before eating it. I don’t see Coyotes catch squirrels often, but whenever I’ve seen it they’ve always played with the squirrel. With gophers, by contrast, they’ll eat them immediately. I wonder whether the…
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Peek an Owl
A Great-Horned Owl peeks out through a cloud of glowing bokeh balls as the sunset filters through its roosting tree.
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The Shape of an Owl
A Great-Horned Owl prepares for its evening hunt as fog pours into San Francisco.
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How to Draw an Owl
When I saw all of these highlights on the same focal plane as an owl, I decided to have a bit of fun by making it all into bokeh balls. If you squint, you can make out the owl sitting against the tree trunk.