These small black birds gather in the tops of our neighborhood trees to raise a continual chorus of high-pitched trills and warbles. When disturbed, they simply migrate to another tree, and the din rises again. We tend to call them starlings, although I’m not sure what they actually are. I decided to shoot this noisy group sitting perched in a […]
Pigeons, ducks and some smaller birds regularly gather on this corner for the breakfast on offer; but it doesn’t take much to set them to flight… at least temporarily!
A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go — Charles Bukowski
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Wildlife. Any kind of wildlife works in this challenge from apes to zebras. Your animals can be found in their natural habitat, wild life preserves, or zoos. If you are not around live animals you can photograph them from museum displays or find statues or carvings you can photograph.
There are as few as 4000 snow leopards in the wild, and their numbers are declining due to habitat loss, poaching and the impact of climate change — World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
I made a quick trip to Ancil Hoffman Park the other day — the first time I’d been there in about 30 years, even though it’s a mere 30 minutes away from my house (allowing for traffic on surface streets). The park sits alongside the American River and contains nearly 400 acres of protected land in the middle of suburban […]
The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Birds. Your bird photos can be of any type of bird in nature, pet or even those posed birds like statues and carvings. Let’s see how creative you can we can be on this challenge.
The beautiful Sumatran tiger is critically endangered, with only around 400 left in the shrinking forests of Indonesia. This one lives at the Sacramento Zoo.
It can be tough shooting good images under the bright noontime sun; so today I decided to use the sunshine and look for interesting shadows.