Death Valley Bloom
Death Valley is a desert – it gets only about 2 inches of rainfall per year. And since life depends on water, the valley name is quite appropriate. Life in Death Valley is dormant – some plant seeds …
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California Condors
This is a repost of the story I posted some time ago on on 500px. California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is one of the rarest birds in North America. Hunted and poached close to extinction, only ~400 of these …
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Overwintering Monarchs
Every year millions of monarch butterflies fly more than three thousand miles from Canada to Mexico, to the same mountains where a year earlier their grandparents spent the winter. This phenomenon is the migration of the Eastern Monarch. …
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Emergence of a dragonfly
It’s been a few months since I’ve posted anything on the blog. It’s not because I’m slacking off – quite the opposite, I’ve been extremely busy. But there is a lot to write about, and the post activity …
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Arachnophilia
Shooting spider webs can sometimes be tricky. Exposition is probably the toughest to get right. Camera meters are frequently fooled by the background, and the thin spider web ends up overexposed or blends into the background. What I …
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