Young Bluebird on green
It's Sunday, so it's time for another photo of the week and the story behind the image.
I was walking a trail through a field in Sharon Woods Metro Park north of Columbus, Ohio, on a September morning when this young Bluebird landed on a plant and stayed for a few seconds, long enough for me to get a nice photo. Young Bluebirds resemble young Robins, with spotted chests and gray feathers. Then blue feathers begin mixing with the gray, as on this young Bluebird.
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What happens in Vegas ...
It's Sunday, so it's time for another photo of the week and the story behind the image.
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, so I guess I need to be a bit careful with the story behind this photo of the entrance to Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.
Best I can recall, it was June 2005. I had just finished a business dinner and decided to walk down The Strip with my camera and try to find some photos. It was just before midnight and the temperature was still almost 100 degrees.
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Light in the forest
It's Sunday, so it's time for another photo of the week and the story behind the image.
I seldom photograph landscapes. I have friends who are excellent landscape photographers, like Gordon Wolford, but I don't have the eye for it. Landscape photos in my collection are accidents — typically a scene I found while shooting something else.
This is one of those accidents.
I had heard that Clear Creek Metro Park, about 60 miles southeast of my house, offered some interesting bird photography opportunities along a ridge line off one of the trails so I packed my equipment and made a road trip.
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A day at the track
It's May, time for the Kentucky Derby and the start of horse racing's Triple Crown, so it makes sense to use horse racing as my featured gallery this month.
Photos in this gallery were taken during past years at Keeneland, the historic race track in Lexington, Ky., and at Beulah Park, a race track in Grove City, Ohio, near Columbus.
Shooting at the track is one of my favorite activites. I try to get a spot on the rail before the race so I can get the horses battling for the lead in the stretch run. …
Indigo Bunting on green
It's Sunday, so it's time for another photo of the week and the story behind the image.
Indigo Buntings are rather common birds, so it's odd that I don't run across them more often during my photo hikes. I have only about 50 photos of Indigo Buntings in my collection.
I found this male Indigo Bunting in a field on a late summer morning. It was perched on the tallest plant in the area and singing in the morning sun. That's common behavior for the species. …