After last Monday’s teaser, I thought I should jump right in (no pun intended) with photos from early spring 2010 shot along the American River near the Foresthill Bridge. Just browsing through these images is making me impatient for spring to arrive this year — with its (hopefully) high water levels, mosquitos, and poison oak, to say nothing of the […]
These days there are so many wild turkeys wandering around the area that I’m not really surprised when a gang of them turn up in my front yard. They periodically cruise through my neighborhood looking for things to eat; and while I’m never very surprised, I still find it a great excuse to grab my camera and try to get […]
The Daily Press Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of April 4, 2018. For this week’s challenge, point your camera at something or someone that puts a smile on our face (or just show a smiling face). I wasn’t completely surprised to see a male turkey strolling down a neighborhood street — but this one had an unexpected escort. Was she acting […]
I’m never too surprised when I come across turkeys while out hiking. They can be fairly challenging to photograph since they tend to move along whenever I look at them too closely — maybe they’re worried I’m sizing them up for the dinner table. I shot these images in late August 2017 near Lew Howard Park in Folsom.