This is a semi-regularly updated gallery of the latest images. They’re not sorted or categorized, just an example of what kind of subject matters fills the viewfinder on any given day. Hover over images for captions.
Also refer to the main section of the blog to find backstories, lessons, or embarrassing confessions.
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Small enough to fit comfortably on your thumbnail, this green treefrog posed gamely on a blade of grass
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The pond in a long exposure entirely by moonlight
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Turtles framed for an autumn composition
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The barest peek at the aurora borealis with star trails, tweaked for better contrast
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The underside of the old Japanese maple during peak colors
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Two baby nutrias being super cooperative
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A guinea turaco posing fetchingly at Sylvan Height Bird Park, Scotland Neck, NC
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A white ibis paid us a visit one day before the snow had even fully melted
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Still trying for the quintessential portrait of a wood duck - this is closer
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Eastern painted turtle finding an unclaimed basking spot
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A pair of trumpeter swans looking cloned at Lake Mattamuskeet, NC
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Surprised by this eastern mud turtle scampering across the driveway, literally small enough to fit comfortably on a quarter
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So far, only the one visit of this solitary green-winged teal, but we keep watching
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A pair of wood ducks catch the late afternoon sun to show off their pluamge
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Delighted to find an eastern glass lizard, a variety of legless lizard, in our driveway
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Finally captured a white tailed deer and nursing fawn
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A crappy shot, but c'mon - it's an American black bear eleven meters away in our very yard - I was focusing by the reflections of its eyes until it turned away
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A pair of juvenile barn owls spent a few weeks in and out of the back yard, to our great delight
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The duckweed was insufficient to protect the minnows from the attention of this green heron
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We planted a hibiscus this year, and it immediately produced huge blossoms
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A foggy morning reveals an osprey waiting for better light
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Plenty of lightning frames from a great night down on the waterfront
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Larva of the eastern tiger swallowtail decimating the parsley plants, but that's why we planted them
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Brief pause - a ruby-throated hummingbird shows a peek of red feathers
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A juvenile male wood duck sports transitional plumage as it nears adulthood
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Closeup of a cloudless sulphur butterfly on a blue salvia blossom in prime focus
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A Carolina anole on the morning glory plants, in infra-red - the camouflage doesn't work as well
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Can't resist going in for the detailed closeup of jagged ambush bugs in their Samurai-like chitin
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Just a great blue heron against expressive cloouds
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An exposure-edit of Jupiter and the Galilean moons re-emerging from behind our moon, illuminated by earthshine
