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Birds… I am going to be doing some posts about birds… I have pictures… so, uh, here we go…

I took my good camera and the telephoto lens down to Mission Beach in San Diego when I had some work to do down there. Here are some much better pictures of that osprey than the ones I took with … Continue reading

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Shootin’ nature with a Canon… part 3…

Just a few more random photos of nature. Because, well, why not? I go places… I see stuff… I take pictures of that stuff… I show the pictures to you… It is the circle of life. The circle of friendship. … Continue reading

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Mollie’s marvelous magical macro madness… part 1…

While we were at my wife’s aunt and uncle’s house, north of San Diego, I followed my daughter Mollie… now in her second year of college… around, while she took some shots with my camera using the macro lens. That … Continue reading

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Shootin’ nature with a Canon… part 2…

Just some more random photos, like that woodpecker. And I am rather proud of my butterfly shots. They don’t sit still for very long. You need to be quick. The same is true of hummingbirds. I seem to have been … Continue reading

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Shootin’ nature with a Canon… part 1…

Today, my wife, my daughter Mollie… who came back from college for the weekend… and I went to Fallbrook… about 30 miles North of San Diego, and spent the day.  We visited my wife’s aunt and uncle. I brought my … Continue reading

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Magic water…

I held back this one photo I took of the river in Yosemite valley on my recent adventure there. I don’t know why the water looks green and purple. It might just be a trick of the sunlight, shining through … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 14… the final chapter…

In a way, that photo of the entire Yosemite valley does capture the scale of the granite cliffs that surround it. Trees that are more than a hundred-feet-tall look like grass under the escarpments. Reflections in a still river. The … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 13… no words, just pictures…

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My Yosemite adventure… part 12… in which I try, one more time, to explain how really huge those granite formations really are…

I used the telephoto lens to zoom in on a rock that was hanging over the edge of a cliff near Half Dome. That rock is probably the size of a small house. Or maybe even a big house. That’s … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 11… sunrise…

  This is why I tend to get up super early on my adventures… I got to watch the sun come up over Yosemite. I took this first series of photos after driving partway back out of the park. (The … Continue reading

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