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The single most important photographic goal for me this year is to get heavily underway on my Owens Lake Project photography documentary. You can read about it here, and I hope you'll follow it as it progresses. I began exploratory work on the project last spring, and now have the knowledge (and some seriously upgraded equipment to do the avian subjects justice) to dive right in. The story of the Owens Lake, and the environmental rejuvenation that's been ongoing since late 2006, is something every westerner, and especially every Californian, should take the time to learn. It's fascinating, encouraging, maddening, and something I look forward SO much to telling over the coming year.
I received approval for fundraising via Kickstarter last June to cover some of my expenses (LOTS of travel back and forth to the eastern sierras, for one thing), and hope to finally get my project video posted there in the next couple of weeks (I'll try to sneak in a link when it's up, with hopes that Flickr won't zing me for it).
I spent New Year's Day down on the lakebed checking out winter conditions there, and photographed several flocks of graceful American Avocets. In a few more months, they'll be sporting their colorful breeding plumage, so stay tuned...
Oregon Sunshine (Eriophyllum lanatum) in the Beezley Hills Preserve, a Nature Conservancy-protected area preserving shrub-steppe habitat on the Columbia Plateau, Washington State, USA, May, Sagebrush-Steppe-5
Quick HDR of my mom shooting the falls. She just got the Olympus EVOLT E-510 SLR
....I spent a lot of time explaining things...
Behold! Peachtree Rock! Ta-DAAA!
Balanced precariously on a narrow point, this geological oddity becomes even more geologically odd with each passing year. The ancient sandstone of the Carolina sandhills has weathered in this place to form this bowl-like depression and the rock centerpiece you see. The upper layers of the stone are much harder than the lower, and thus with eons of weathering and in recent years, human meddling, the rock has developed it's ungainly appearance.
A low chain fence surrounds the rock but nothing prevents abuse. Grafitti abounds. One day, in mid scribble, it will likely topple and flatten someone...
Granite rock, which is brought in by barge, is methodically placed in the Piankatank River near Gwynn’s Island in Mathews County Virginia. The rock is the basis for the newest, 25-acre oyster reef in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is overseeing the more than $2 million sanctuary reef project in partnership with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission and the Nature Conservancy. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)
Picnickers went swimming and participated in kayak relay races at the Pohnpei Picnic for the Planet at Nihco Marine Park.
© Serleen Aldis/TNC
For Mother's Day, we decided to find a new place to walk and chose Happy Valley Forest managed by the Nature Conservancy. It was a day of spring woodland flowers. Very nice.
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Tom [Bombadil] and Joe [The Resort Management Executive] well...behold the rock.
Peachtree Rock is so named [sez John] because it may at one time have sported an actual peach tree growing from the thin soil on top, or that the shape of the rock itself hinted at a fruit tree.
Okay. I can see it. I think.
Peachtree Rock Heritage Preserve
A team of biologists, Nature Conservancy staff, and college students set out to survey for prairie rattlesnakes.
Construction underway on Ohio Street includes street resurfacing from West Street to College Avenue and replacement of deteriorated sidewalks and curbs using environmentally friendly porous concrete and installing rain gardens to improve drainage in the area. Ohio Street, particularly from Park Avenue to College Avenue, has suffered continued pavement degradation from poor drainage and subsequent freeze-thaw on the surface. The soil types on the project site were ideal for infiltration, creating a situation well suited for the use of porous concrete sidewalks. This project is the first use by the Department of Public Works (DPW) of porous concrete for sidewalks and monolithic curbs and gutters.
Taken on the Amazon River going to the Explorama Lodge, 50 miles from Iquitos, Peru. © 2012 All Rights Reserved.
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When our flight from Miami landed, the Lima airport wasn't open! We tried to catch a few winks before morning!
Taken at the airport, Lima, Peru. © 2012 All Rights Reserved.
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A true denizen of open areas, a Dickcissel hangs on to some dried stems of some old prairie flowers at Nachusa Grasslands near Franklin Grove.
The Nature Conservancy owns much of the land around where the turbines will be built. Photo by Christopher Peak/Osage News.