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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A new greenhouse meant the Japanese maple could leaf out in March
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Northern watersnake, the first of 2022, in March during the toad mating drive
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Belted kingfishers enjoy being elusive
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A crab spider makes off with a newborn Chinese mantis
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Carolina anoles with no shame
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The Girlfriend got to meet this orphaned mallard duckling being rehabilitated by a friend
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The first decent lightning of 2022 - I'm after better of course
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The total lunar eclipse of 2022 eclipsing (well, occulting) a background star at bottom
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A better look at the beaver, since it was out at dusk
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The nest completely vanished in the winter, but was rebuilt and reoccupied in the spring
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Face to face with a young buck directly off the back of the property
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Lovely pose from the red-headed woodpecker nest
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Even with the long lens, I'm still stunned to capture images like this of a wild osprey in flight
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Video capture since I wasn't shooting stills at the moment, the local beaver was out with its new offspring
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Very young Carolina anole hoping I'd go away
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Newly-fledged green herons posing far too cooperatively
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Snowberry clearwing approaching phlox
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A minuscule Carolina anole asleep on the oak-leaf hydrangea
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One, perhaps, of the juvenile red-headed woodpeckers I caught leaving the nest weeks earlier
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A great egret stalked practically right up to me to catch this fish; show-off
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After better than two decades, finally got to photograph my first nutria!
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Mirrored positions of gulls squabbling over pizza
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More experiments with oil and water and holiday lights
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A flock of seagulls posing against the new-risen moon
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When I needed to do some demonstrations, this helpful red-tailed hawk perched nearby and looked horrified
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Perhaps one of the young I'd photographed leaving the nest the previous year, this red-headed woodpecker still displays some of the juvenile coloration on the head
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A green treefrog serving as the harbinger of spring
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A distant bald eagle showing off its meal
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After a quarter-century as a goal, I finally snagged an airplane in front of the moon
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An osprey suddenly realizing it was being photographed
