Other Subjects
Landscapes
Dragonflies
Mammals
I like to photograph birds because it was birds, in the Pennsylvania forests where I grew up, that first drew me to the study of the natural world. I still have black-and-white prints of cardinals and chickadees that I took at neighbors' feeders with an old Pentax SLR from my school media center. I processed the film and made the prints in the school darkroom. I try to take my camera everywhere I go, because opportunites for great photos have a habit of presenting themselves when least expected.
Birds in south Florida are often suprisingly approachable, especially at wetland boardwalk trails in the Palm Beach area.
Pinyon Jays were numerous and cooperative on this visit to the border between sagebrush sea and ponderosa pine forest.
The very old crabapple trees at refuge headquarters attracted many Cedar Waxwings, Western Tanagers and Bullock's Oriole.
When White-faced Ibis are cold and hungry during April snowstorms, they are much less concerned with human observers close by.
White-headed Woodpeckers, nuthatches and bluebirds posed for photos on this Septmeber pligrimage to photgraphers' paradise.
I think thrashers are an especially intriguing group of birds, and I have spent many hours focusing on aquiring phtogrpaphs of thrashers in arid habitats.
