Bald Eagle Taking Flight
(This blog will be backdated, story from December 21st, 2012!) Well, just a few days ago, I managed to get my first shots of a Bald Eagle in flight. They were taken with my 100-400mm lens, @400mm…and...
View ArticleCoyotes at Cherry Creek
Well, for the first time, I saw a good dozen coyotes at once at Cherry Creek. Beautiful creatures, Coyotes! I knew they were out there, but I never knew there were so many. Today, they were just...
View ArticleJuvenile Red-tailed Hawk
I can’t be sure…there are so many varieties of Red-tailed Hawks…but I believe this is a juvenile red-tailed of some kind, as the morph does not seem to fit any other kind of hawk or raptor that I know...
View ArticleGolden Eagle’s Meal
I headed out with the EF 500mm f/4 L IS II lens again today. This time, instead of my original haunt, I visited Chatfield State Park. Chatfield is a beautiful place, and a critical stopover for birds...
View ArticleNesting Cormorants at Duck Lake
For those of you who have read my blog for the last couple of months, you’ll know that when I visited Duck Lake a couple months ago, I discovered my lens had been damaged. Every shot out of about 32...
View ArticleAmerican Coot at Duck Lake
Well, it does not look like I’ll really be able to salvage any of the Cormorant photos. Maybe one, its ok…but not great. Every photo is quite soft at full size, so I am quite sure something is wrong...
View ArticleSpring Ducks at Cottonwood Creek
Over the last couple months, I’ve identified a number of duck species at Cottonwood Creek. I was worried for a while that the majority of the species would have moved on by the time I got my lens back....
View ArticleMisty Morning Avocets
A week past, when I first went out to photograph the Avocets, there was a heavy mist coming off the water. I was a little bummed at first, water vapor can be killer on detail…but after seeing these...
View ArticleMore Spring Birding at Cherry Creek
I headed out to Cherry Creek again yesterday. On my way home from an errand, I noticed a small group of Ibis, what looked like White Faced Ibis, hunting in a patch of dried cattails at the Cottonwood...
View ArticleYoung Bucks of Cherry Creek
During the first part of June, Cherry Creek was awash with green. Deer and green grass go so well together. I think the sequence of the buck depicted in these photos is one of my favorite out of all of...
View ArticleSunset at Rock Lake
While visiting my parents for the 4th of July, I took some time to get some photography done. They live up in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, a truly beautiful place. Behind their house is Rock Lake, a...
View ArticleA Cascading Creek
A while back, while hiking around Long Lake in the Indian Peaks Wilderness area, I came across this small cascading creek. Most of the amazing waterscapes I see are usually shrouded in ferns, with moss...
View ArticleA Gull of a Day
Just a bunch of gulls, hanging out on the ice. For the first couple weeks of December, we had an arctic front hovering over us. Nightly temperatures dropped to an average of 0°F, and were frequently...
View ArticlePicnic Grove
A couple of weeks back, I visited my parents up in the Rocky Mountains. They live well back, a short distance from the Indian Peaks range in the Colorado Rockies. I finished off my teen years in that...
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