Summer is coming to an end, many of the flowers have gone by, but these few still bloom. We may have a frost or a dusting of snow next week at my house, so I have spent the past few days photographing bees, mushrooms, flowers, and the few hummingbirds still about.
I listen for hummingbirds, but today find bees busy pollinating wildflowers. Hey, it’s a sticky job, but someone has to do it, eh? Flower to flower with no end in sight this time of year, especially with all the rain we’ve had this month. Yet the bee gets little thanks, silly girls scream when they [...]
Fairy Trumpets
(can you hear the music?)
1/800 second (wind!) @ f/8, ISO400, 200mm
The wildflowers are fantastic this year. Rain almost every afternoon this summer has kept the color show going throughout the forest, meadows and along the roads. Early morning is a good time to photography wildflowers. You can find sunlit flowers against shadowy [...]
Here’s a close up of a small red columbine I photographed Father’s Day weekend in June.
Sorry to have been neglecting the blog recently. I’ve been busy selling my images at local festivals. Tomorrow is the 3rd one for me in a month’s time. After that, I’ll have a month’s break and more time to [...]
I went to visit my good friends, the Pattersons, a couple of days ago. ‘Twas a good thing I had my camera along, for this group of three perfect pasques is quite a rare thing this year. With all the snow and freezing rains we’ve had, many of the pasques have brown frostbite on the [...]
Spring Greetings!
I shot this photo of a pasque flower Monday, two days ago. Yesterday it was covered with few inches of snow. Much of the snow melted yesterday afternoon but high winds were blowing snow around and I stayed in. This morning, Wednesday, it’s 17 degrees F and I’m reading that we may get as [...]
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I make images of nature, wildlife, old structures, and other things found near my mountain home in Colorado.
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