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Only about 6% of all people have your personality, including 3% of all women and 8% of all men

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carolinensis = "of Carolina"

 

i'm a Tar Heel born, i'm a Tar Heel bred, and when i die, i'll be a Tar Heel dead.

 

the only dumb animals are the ones that can say "dumb animals." - me

 

there's no place like Carolina. but if there was, mind you, it would be called south Looezyanna.

 

Esse Quam Videri - to be, rather than to seem.

 

"The question is not what you look at — but how you look and whether you see." - Thoreau, Walden

 

"Of late I have been tempted to look into the problems furnished by nature rather than those more superficial ones for which our artificial state of society is responsible." - Sherlock Holmes

 

"At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the butterflies?" - Andrew Lees

 

"One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'what if I had never seen this before? what if I knew I would never see it again?'" - Rachel Carson

 

Quit your bitching. Innumerable animals and plants had to die to make room for your fat ass. So, shut up.

 

"am i me dreaming i am a beautiful butterfly, or a beautiful butterfly dreaming i am me?" - Chuang Tsu, Inner Chapters

 

"A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton." - Darwin

 

what if six turned out to be nine?

 

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in." - Thoreau

 

"if you look into her eye, you can see the center of the universe." - Dr. Bill Calder, remarking on a female Rufous Hummingbird

 

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." - Salvador Dali

 

‘In that direction,’ the Cat said, waving its right paw round, ‘lives a Hatter: and in that direction,’ waving the other paw, ‘lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.’

‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked.

‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ‘we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’

‘How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice

‘You must be’ said the Cat ‘or you wouldn’t have come here’ - Lewis Carrol

 

"He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned." - KK

 

"I guess my feet know where they want me to go

Walking on a country road." - JT

 

"the Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao." - Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching

 

"In wilderness is the preservation of the world." - Thoreau

 

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

" - Ansel Adams

 

"Free your mind and your ass will follow." - George (Funkadelic) Clinton

 

"I believe in God, only I spell it N-A-T-U-R-E." - Frank Lloyd Wright

 

“Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.” – E. O. Wilson

 

"If all the creatures were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of the spirit. For whatever happens to the creatures soon happens to man." - Chief Seattle, 1854

 

"'O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'

He chortled in his joy." - Lewis Carroll

www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html

 

"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils." - General John Stark, July 31, 1809

 

"Photograph is a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne." - Ambrose Bierce

 

"We have met the enemy... and he is us" - Pogo (Walt Kelly)

 

If Nature abhors a vacuum, why did she evolve humans?

 

"A strange bird may cause a slight unrest until it is named." - Walker Percy (thanks, Noel. R.I.P.)

 

"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - The Lorax

 

"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?'" Aldo Leopold, "A Sand County Almanac"

 

"You don't take a photograph, you make it." - Ansel Adams

 

ok, if you read this far, i'm a "bird guy," BS in biology (currently enrolled in grad program). my undergrad research was on the diversity of birds utilizing a small Atlantic coast barrier island. i band birds, esp. hummingbirds and orioles that spend the winter in SC. to really know the birds you have to know something about the places you find them, why they're in those places, and a little something about all of the other critters sharing those same spots. as such, you'll often find something about the subject of my photos in the title/comments section, at the very least something about its identity. you can't claim to love something and know nothing about it; there's more than enough hypocrisy and bovine feces on the planet already. i mis-spent my youth in the woods, swamps and on the blackwater rivers and beaches where i live. i learned about alot of these things while sitting in duck blinds, deer stands, wading in hardwood swamps, tromping thru fields looking for Bobwhites, pulling a hand seine, trying to catch a mess of fish or a decent wave. i'm a member of American Ornithologists' Union and Association of Field Ornithologists, a past president and former director of the local Audubon chapter, former member of the SC Important Bird Areas technical committee. i frequently moonlight as a bird guide and write a weekly newspaper column (11+ yrs now) about wild birds and their habitats. my most recent employment was as a GIS research specialist on a pilot watershed management project, where i worked primarily with the natural resource aspect of things. i do public programs about birding, backyard bird-feeding, hummingbirds (they're the "real" birds, y'all) butterflies, etc. in my spare time i plant all sorts of stuff in the yard where i live to feed birds and butterflies and see how much of it i can coax to survive (Salvias are way cool, i've experimented with about 40 spp. so far, only about 900 more to go...) oh yeah, i've had an "on again, off again" love affair with guitar since i was 12 or so. i was married once in another life and have a daughter that will soon be as old as i am...wierd, huh?

and every once in awhile, i like to try and photograph the things i love the best, that our society in general has lost respect for and interest in as we gather speed down the road to perdition. i don't believe that domesticated cats have the right to roam freely anywhere in the Western hemisphere, or that anyone should cut down a mature native tree for no better reason than they don't like to rake leaves. i believe in respecting personal property boundaries, and the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America means exactly what it says as written. i still say ma'am and sir, too...and reckon i always will.

 

My "gear":

Nikon coolpix 4500 (4mb)

Nikon TC 2x teleconverter

Nikon Macro Cool Light SL-1

Harbortronics Digi-snap 2000

Sony DSC H7 (8.1mb)

Sony VCL-DH1774 1.7x teleconverter

Nikon D80 (10.2mb)

Nikon D7000 (16.2mb) 02-24-2011

Nikkor AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED

Nikkor VR 80-400mm f4.5-f5.6 D ED AF

Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G (cheep, cheep import)

Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6II macro (1998 model)

Sigma 150mm f/2.8 APO macro DG

62mm Marumi DHG Achromat Macro 330 (+3)

Nikon DK-21M viewfinder eyepiece

Nikon SB-800 Speedlight

Nikon MC-DC1 remote release

Zeiss Diascope T* FL 85mm 'scope (20-60x)

Zeiss Photo-Adapter (converts 'scope to 1000mm f/12 lens)

Zeiss Digital Camera Adapter

Zeiss Astronomy Eyepiece Adapter

Meade 32mm Plossl 1.25" (17x on Zeiss 'scope)

Zeiss/Manfrotto tripod

Bogen 3221 w/ #128RC

Nikon N60 35mm SLR (R.I.P.)