Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! As you may have noticed, two Mondays went by without a post, but now I am back! Ruthi and I went to California for a family wedding, and we added some tourist destinations to our itinerary, since we had never been to the West Coast together. Nature photography was not at the top of our list of priorities during…
Greetings! While out hunting for photographic subjects, I sometimes come across things that make me stop and think or even better, laugh! This week I would like to share some of them with you. This sign, in a nearby garden plot, is quite self explanatory, but what does one make of this one seen by the side of a road in North Carolina?Bumper stickers (and window stickers) are always a good source of fun. These three appeal to me very…
Greetings! Welcome to the second weekly photo essay written specifically in blog format. I appreciate the feedback you sent me last week, which was heavily in favor of the new format. Since last Monday I have fixed the “Contact Me” page, which does now work, and I have continued with the task of adding older essays that can be accessed from the “Pre-Blog Essays” sidebar on the right hand side of the page, and I have added the original title…
Greetings! Thank you everyone who gave me feedback on last week’s pictures! (If you missed them, look for the “Pre-Blog Essay” heading in the sidebar on the right, and click on 2017-09-25.) And apologies for the triple transmission last week – I still don’t know exactly what caused the long delay in delivery of the first attempt, which is what led me to send the second and third! Anyway, that event was the final straw that pushed me over the…
Greetings! A few days ago, a friend commented on the fact that the vast majority of my pictures – however good they might be technically – are fundamentally rather cold, impersonal, portraits of a single bird, bug, or plane. And I have to agree with him! So, I have spent some time during the week sorting out a few images that hopefully break out of that mold. Some of you have seen some of them before. Most of…
Greetings! While the majority of all my pictures feature things with wings, it has been quite a long time since I devoted an entire essay to things with very big wings. While some of you may remember seeing a few of these images before, I hope you will agree they are worth sharing with newer “subscribers”. The Frontier Airlines Airbus A320 in picture #1 actually has some of the smaller wings in this set, but the Pileated Woodpecker on the…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! And welcome to three new “members” this week! When we moved to Lansdowne Woods – known as Leisure World in those days – there was a sales center building just inside the main entrance, where prospective residents could visit examples of the various units available throughout the complex. I do not know which unit the visitor shown…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! First of all, to all of you who suggested that last week’s mystery picture was of a mushroom – congratulations! It’s been many weeks now since Ruthi and I have been to the beach – things keep cropping up. One of the things I miss most is watching the pelicans. So this essay is devoted to pelicans. I have…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! Something a bit different this week. Just in case you hadn’t heard, there was a solar eclipse last Monday! So in case you missed it, I am attaching about 85 photos I took showing the progress of the moon across the face of the sun. But take heart, you don’t have to study each one – I put…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! And an especial welcome to new “subscribers”! For many people, milkweed is synonymous with Monarch butterflies. However, milkweed can play host to a wide variety of highly colorful insects, just a few of which are featured in this week’s essay. I seem to be acquiring a reputation – at least within the community – as…