The View from Oso Creek - 2
The View from Oso Creek - 2
My second book of nature photos is now available. BUY NOW
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I've taken close to 100,000 pictures over the past fifteen years. This book, the second in the series, contains more than a hundred of the best ones. All the images have been posted on social media and were some of the most popular.
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From bobcat to big birds all the photographs in this book were taken within a mile of the photographer's home over a period of several years. These 140 pictures showcase the diversity of life that can be found in most environments, and they provide an artistic impression of an ecosystem over time.
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Moon at Dawn
Moon drops to the horizon at daybreak. My understanding of the optics is that, because you are looking at the moon across a long stretch of atmosphere (toward the horizon as opposed to straight up), there will be a slight distortion of the spherical shape and much of the color frequency will be filtered out. Orange and red are more correlated to sunset. Blue is more correlated to daybreak. In this case the orange was strong even though it was dawn. Buy this photo for $3.99 in digital form. ID Number 25s_moon8888edit
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Cawing Gull
Cawing Gull
Cawing gull. About 2 minutes before I took this picture, I ran into some people who reported several large hawks diving at each other. I hurried to the spot and found nothing except this lone, seemingly-upset, gull. Had there been hawks? Had the people correctly identified the birds as hawks? I think, yes, to both questions. Gulls, in my observations, often travel in groups at a leisurely pace. This gull circled frantically and then flew on. At the same time I saw the gull, I heard, but never saw, a loud Kiskadee with its call, which sounds like its name. So, what was going on? Something. It begs the question, if a tree falls in the forest and no one sees it, does it really fall? Increasingly, I think reality is more about the observer and the observation point than it is about an objective set (of facts, vertices, etc.) that exists in space/time.
Rhombus
What Is A Rhombus
A rhombus is a shape that resembles a diamond. Opposite sides are parallel and of equal length. So, is this a rhombus? The sun casts the shadow of the broken twig at such an angle that it appears to be a rhombus. If the sun were directly above, then the shadow would be cast down and not appear to be a rhombus. If the sun were setting, then the shadow would be longer and not appear to be a rhombus. Likewise, if I moved left or right or up or down, the image might "keystone" and no longer appear to be a rhombus. It was the unique combination of factors which led to the illusion of a rhombus, which itself is not real, but an attempt to describe objects in time and space.
Green Heron
The Green Heron
The green heron uses bait to fish. I have long decided that our fellow animals are much smarter than we used to believe. When I was young, I was told that use of tools was one of the main things that differentiated us from our fellow animals. But it turns out that many animals use tools. What differentiates us from our fellow animals is that we have developed speech centers in our brains, which allows us to pass on our knowledge and to use Twitter to criticize people we don't like. Another issue is whether our fellow animals are getting smarter. Most articles I read say that it is not so much that they're getting smarter, but that they're able to learn and adapt to new situations much in the same way humans do.