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Photo of the week: 11.01.26 — Nuthatch and seed

I have a number of photos of White-breasted Nuthatches in my files, but this one is a bit different. The reason: The bird is upright. Most of my other nuthatch photos show the bird facing down, clinging to the bark of a tree. Nuthatches spend their day climbing up and down the trunks of trees looking for insects hiding in the bark. When facing down, they will often “pose” — positioning …  Continue reading

Featured gallery: November — Panoramas

I’ve always been intrigued by panorama photography, the typically very wide images that exceed the normal field of view of human vision as well as the frame width of normal cameras. I remember seeing panoramic photos in books when I was young. I didn’t give much thought to the “how did they do that?” until I started doing photography in the 1970s, back in the pre-digital days …  Continue reading