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Visions of the Past and Present

Color photo. Closeup of a Dunlin pulling a long, thin, yellow-green worm out of wet sand. The bird is mostly white, with a long thin beak, and brown and white wings.
June 3rd, 2025: Dunlin
2025-06-03

The last week has been fairly quiet on the photography front, so I went looking through my library to find something to post that I hadn't shown yet. Which is when I realized I'd done a whole ...

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Color photo. A tall sea stack, roughly triangular, at Ruby Beach on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. It rises, golden gray rock dotted with green grasses, above a blue gray rocky strip of beach. The sky beyond it is a golden white. A gap through the stack, at its bottom on the left, is lit golden by the setting sun hidden behind the stack. Rays of sunlight pour through this gap, lighting a path in the rocky beach.
May 27th, 2025: Poseidon's Door
2025-05-27

I spent Memorial Day weekend camping at the beach with a couple of friends, on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula.  We were fortunate to have had fantastic weather the first two days (never ...

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Color photo. Four people in vaguely medieval costumes. The middle is a large bearded man wearing a crown. The others are women: on the left wearing a red dress, on the right, a green dress with pink fringe at the bottom. The man is standing over the third woman, who is lying on the stage, facing the viewer, propped up on her elbows, smiling.
May 22nd, 2025: King Beard
2025-05-22

Back in April I had the pleasure of shooting the most recent performance by No Refunds Productions: King Beard The show was a hoot, as they always are, and I've pulled a selection of photos...

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May 20th, 2025: World Bee Day
2025-05-20

Today is World Bee Day, designated by the UN "to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development". I went back thro...

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Color photo. A Caspian Tern in flight. It is a white bird with black wingtips, a black 'cap', and brilliant red-orange beak.
May 13th, 2025: A Tern of Events
2025-05-13

I drove down to the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge last Friday, hoping to get some shots of migratory shorebirds.  My bookmark for the area on BirdCast had predicted high a...

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Color photo. Three tawny Canada Goose goslings standing in a row on a floating log. The closest has its back to the viewer. The middle one and the far one are facing to the right.
May 7th, 2025: Bird Union
2025-05-07

Monday saw me getting out of the house to head over to the Union Bay Natural Area at the University of Washington campus.  We're at the height of migration season now, and the Natural Area is ...

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Color photo. Mammoth Hot Springs, in Yellowstone National Park. Tiers of mineral deposits, forming rough steps and ledges, rising up from the bottom of the frame. They are a sulfurous greenish yellow for the most part, with some brilliant white interspersed.
May 3rd, 2025: Mammoth Hot Springs
2025-05-03

April 19 - 27 was National Parks Week in the US and I'd intended to post this then, but life kind of got away from me.  Nevertheless!  I'm a fan of the Parks Service, as might be obvious, and ...

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