Spring Birding Trip, Part 4 (Star Island Landscapes)
Part 3 is here. When the birding is slow or the light grows dim on Star Island, my eyes/brain switch into landscape mode. Black and White Landscapes Color Landscapes
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Spring Birding Trip, Part 3 (pre-Star Island Landscapes)
Part 2 is here As I made my way up (and down) the southern Maine coast before heading to Star Island, I made multiple stops along the way to looks
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Spring Birding Trip, Part 2 (Star Island)
Part 1 is here. Star Island, one of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, is a classic ‘migrant trap’. Birds migrating at night look
Spring Birding Trip, Part 1
I spent most of last week on my annual spring migration birding trip. I headed out on Monday morning and drove up the southern Maine coast as far as Cape
Temptation, Yielded To
Early May… Early Spring. The daffodils are out in gardens and the spring ephemerals are beginning to bloom in the woods. Yesterday was a perfect early spring day here in
Other Photos from Yesterday
Yesterday, while out and about making slit photographs, I also made photos with both a pinhole and, gasp, an actual lens. Here are five of those exposures. The first three
Slit Photographs
Inspired by my recent re-excursion into pinhole photography, I expanded my vision by making a photographic slit and heading out to make some photos. An optical slit works similarly to
Pinhole Photographs (WPPD – 2026)
Last Sunday (26 April 2026) was Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD). My friend Al and I led a pinhole photography workshop at the Vermont Center for Photography in celebration. I
Getting My Mojo Back
Winter is a slow time for me photographically. This winter, with its harsh weather, has been particularly slow. I made less that two hundred exposures in each of the last
No Kings – Peterborough, NH (March 2026)
Early last week one of the organizers of many local protest rallies emailed me asking if I was going to the No Kings event in Peterborough on Saturday. I replied