Pied-billed Grebes are found pretty much across the entire USA and that is evident by the fact that one of these photos is from Florida while the other is from California. Usually they are fairly difficult birds to photograph because they tend to be somewhat…
Category: Nature
I only saw a couple of these during my entire time diving in the PNW, but the baby Red Rock Crabs look very different from the adults…
Though I never managed to get a photo I was truly happy with, any time I saw a Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis) it was a treat. These little fish (about 1-3 inches long) are just so cute even though they are armoured with those…
In case you’re curious how this is “part 3” of my Rocky Mountain National Park posts, I realized I didn’t label the previous ones as RMNP, so I went back and changed them. If you’re curious, they were the Moose Mother and Calf and the…
Ok – starting today I am going to make Fridays a day when I will just post 10 random photos with no descriptions or back-story… I’ve got way too many photos sitting in my archives just waiting to see the light of day because I…
It is not easy to photograph really tall trees… I decided to try some vertical panoramic shots to see if that would work…
The next installment in The Eyes Have It series is a Red Irish Lord (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus) photographed in the Hood Canal portion of Puget Sound.
A definite hallmark of PNW diving, the Giant Plumose Anemone (Metridium farcimen) is a pretty cool photography subject – especially when the conditions are right…
During a dive at the Blue Heron Bridge, I would usually find the Bumblebee Shrimp under these Purple Urchins, and not a ton of critters eat urchins, so I was surprised to find this crab walking around trying to munch on this one…
Along with Giant Pacific Octopus, I got to see Pacific Red Octopus (Octopus rubescens) while diving in the Pacific North West. On a dive on Thanksgiving, we had hoped to find some Stubby Squid which had been spotted at this same dive site, so when…
During a visit to Green Cay Wetlands in Boyton Beach, Florida, I happened to find this Black Necked Stilt with its youngsters foraging in the wetland…
Some Mule Deer bucks with their antlers still in velvet…