2022… 2022: Missouri – Diamonds on a Black Velvet Sky – Imaging of M45 “Pleiades.” 10 Dec 202213 Dec 2022 Another Astrophotographer adventure is here - it’s the 19th of November, 2022 in the Midwest, I arrived at the Bortle Class 4 location at 4:00 pm, and sunset was at…
2022… 2022: My first Astrophotography image – M31 “Andromeda Galaxy” 27 Nov 202226 Jan 2023 Hello everyone, I hope all is well. It has been some time since I have shared anything on my blog. At the time I wrote this post, in Missouri, it…
2022… 2022: Missouri Deeproot clubmoss “Diphasiastrum tristachyum” 16 Aug 202216 Aug 2022 How many times have you been told, "keep your head up while walking on the trail!" It's a good thing to do, but in this case, I was on a…
Bird Photography… 2022: Summer Madness – Look a Bluebird! 4 Aug 20224 Aug 2022 It is summer time in Missouri, the heat is here and as of late so has the rain. A play on light, that is what I call the Indigo bunting…
Wildflowers Handy Field guides 12 May 2022 If you are a native plant enthusiast. These are my field tools, app PlantNet and Missouri Wild Flowers. Each state I believe has a wildlife flower field guide.
Dutchmans Breeches… 2022: Missouri’s Spring Ephemeral Wildflowers “Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria.)” 14 Apr 202212 Jun 2022 Five years, that is how long it has been since I last picked up my macro kit and attempted to photograph wildflowers. Many a thing has changed in the world,…
Fotografia by Míguel… 2022: Missouri’s Spring Ephemeral Wildflowers – “Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica)” 13 Apr 202212 Jun 2022 Leaving work today, I saw a small patch of these amongst some tulips, outside my office. Glad I had my camera with me. This most attractive spring perennial is spectacular in large…
Raptors… Look what the wind blew in! 23 Mar 202219 Apr 2022 In the winter of 2021, into 2022, a rare migrant from the Arctic appeared and made where I am in Missouri, its winter home, and “bird watchers” are taking notice.…
Birds… The Harrier and the Owl. 12 Mar 202223 Mar 2022 "Try and try again." yeah that is the saying, in my case I have been trying, trying, trying, going all the way back to 2016. I have been trying to…
Fotografia by Míguel… Hopes for a Short-eared Owl! 10 Mar 202223 Mar 2022 It’s that time of year again. Christmas is in the air; the New Year is right around the corner and Old man Winter is coming! Boy wildlife photography is about…
American white pelican… Manny look at that Pelican fly! 10 Mar 202210 Mar 2022 This may arguably be the most famous one-liner in movie history, in reference to a pelican. "Look at these pelicans fly. Come on, pelicans!" Look at this pelican fly! Sure…
Birds “It takes two to tango!” 21 Apr 201922 Apr 2022 In the pre-dawn silence of a mild spring Missouri morning, a few brave members of the Webster Groves Nature Study Society gathered at the parking lot of Dunn Ranch Prairie,…
American Bald Eagles… “North American Bald Eagles of Clarksville.” 28 Jan 201922 Apr 2022 Photographing the North American Bald Eagle "Haliaeetus leucocephalus" Has been a few years in the making, after a more than ten-year hiatus, I got back into photography in 2013 -…
Birds… “Backyard Birding – Missouri Winter Songbirds.” 12 Jan 201919 Apr 2022 A big thanks to the Duncan's for inviting me to their home, to photograph winter songbirds at their bird feeder. A cold winter day is perfect for curling up by…
Birds… “Snow Geese Blastoff.” 24 Nov 201822 Mar 2022 T-minus 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, located at the eastern edge of the Missouri River Valley, about two miles south of Mound City, MO., can…
Elephant Rock State Park… “Johnson’s Shut-ins State Park & Elephant Rocks State Park with Danny Brown.” 8 Nov 201619 Apr 2022 October 25th, 2016 Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park is state-owned, located in Reynolds County, Missouri. The East Fork of the Black River flows like a maze through the dominant rocks called rhyolite,…