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“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
Here we are, 21 years past a massive national tragedy, and in the midst of another tragedy. I was 10 when 9/11 happened. At the time, I thought the world was ending. As I grew older, I realized more and more that I had lived through an event that changed the world in ways subtle and obvious. I have that feeling again, now. Much as we were on that bright September day in 2001, our shortcomings and inadequacies are laid bare. May we rebuild stronger and better and kinder and wiser, as we have done before.
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- In New York you are on Lenape and Seneca land. #FindYourPark
- shot on a #sonya7riv, #shotwithhoya’s polarizer with a 24 mm lens. Edited in #Lightroom. 📍 #statueofliberty #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc #worldtradecenter #freedomtower - #landscape #architecture #architecturephotography - #usinterior #nationalparkgeek #nationalparkwonders #flickr #flickrfeature #bestoftheusa_nationalparks #travelwithmoon #nationalparkservice #longexposure_shots #yes_busa #artofvisuals #agameoftones #photooftheday #travel #travelphotography #sonyalpha #bealpha : @sonyalpha @Lightroom @flickr @NationalParkService @USInterior @nationalparkgeek @bestoftheusa_nationalparks @national_park_photographer
Yosemite National Park
After 6 months of being inactive on my photography, I decided to go to Yosemite with my daughter and her boyfriend last weekend. The park looks amazing dressed in fall colors everywhere you go. Quite a trip having my youngest daughter with me and she really had a blast seeing the park with such variety of fall colors. I hope you like it.
Unto These Hills - Great Smoky Mountains National Park Scenic Landscape Cherokee NC
The last light of a spring day fades away over the distant mountain ridges near Cherokee and Bryson City North Carolina. I shot this image about this time of the year last spring, and it seemed like a good time to develop and upload it since there won't be any new images from there this year with Great Smoky Mountains National Park currently closed because of all this craziness going on now. Hope y'all are doing good and staying safe, and hopefully we'll all be able to get back out there to enjoy these sights again sometime soon! Enjoy the view y'all!
Single exposure, Nikon D800 and 24-70mm f/2.8
© 2020 Dave Allen Photography, All Rights Reserved. This image may NOT be used for anything without my explicit permission.
The Toadstools of Grand
Staircase, just outside of Kanab, Utah is geological wonderland; one where not the forces of the Earth carved the landscape but Salvador Dali, himself, had a hand in crafting this bizarre symphony of stone.
Brilliant fall colors spreading across North Cascades National Park's Heather Maple Pass Loop.
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Some trips you take everything just goes right. More often than not, they go wrong. But from August 30th-September 7th. Everything seemed to go right. After photographing amazing sunrises, sunsets, and mountain peaks. Our final stop in Utah left us in awe as we watched an incredible, and electrified monsoon roll over the mountains.
Colletes aestivalis. Rare? or Not Rare? This is a Heuchera specialist. Heuchera is planted everywhere, why is the species not seen and seen by some as a potential species of concern. A few things pilgrim. First most of the Heuchera out there are part of a hybrid Heuchera swarm (I like the ring of that phrase, but, sadly, it will not often come up in casual conversation). OK, so C. aestivalis is not interested in these hybrids. Also, wild Heuchera is hard to find and its little brown be hard to see. We now know of several populations some from areas where H. americana have been planted. So, 2 lessons. 1. Plant H. americana. 2. Look for bees on H. americana and maybe our friend will be there. Brooke Goggins took the picture and the specimen was found in Virginia, but I can't recall which group!
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All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Thrilled and proud and humbled that this shot made Honorable Mention in this year's Everglades Photo Contest!
Millions of stars pass by as we transition from night to day.. and to think, El Capitan and the other mountains here were formed millions of years ago.. It just makes you wonder.. Enjoy!
The dynamic diversity found in Everglades National Park is driven by the the sheer dynamism of the weather found in this environment- tropical and rainy, the Everglades can often be gloomy, grey, and wet. On the day that I took this picture, a blanket of clouds covered the entire park and boxed in the scenery. But then, as the sun began to sink towards the horizon and break through the clouds, a magic show began.
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In @evergladesnps, you are on Seminole and Tequesta land. #FindYourPark
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- shot on a #sonya7riv, #shotwithhoya’s polarizer with a 70-300 mm lens. ISO 100, f22, 1/100 secs. Edited in #Lightroom.
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Zion is known as “Yosemite in red” and that’s never more apparent than in Kolob Canyons where the sharp spires of rock give way to alpine green, lit by glowing sun and sky.
In Zion, you are on Pueblos and Southern Paiute land. Zion’s native name is Mukuntuweap. Zion is the name given to the canyon by American explorers.
As I was standing on the cliff face I was in awe just watching the power of the waves crashing on the coast. It was an overcast and some times rainy morning but it was one of my favorite times this year making images. Yes I witnessed some amazing sites, but for some reason I just loved it.
After Making this image April, Bella and I walked a little closer to the ocean and got down a little closer to the water. Bella and I found this sheltered spot where she could check for chipmunks while I watched April make some images. In that moment I took out my phone and just started typing what I was thinking and later that night I opened up my notes app and read it again.... I will talk about that in another post some other time.
Happy Monday everyone
Monolith - Looking Glass Rock North Carolina Blue Ridge Parkway Scenic Landscape
Amazing light filtering through the clouds and settling on the valley below as a passing storm breaks up over the iconic Looking Glass Rock along the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina. Looking Glass Rock is a solid granite pluton monolith which originally formed from a large bubble of magma deep under the earths surface, which was eventually lifted up from below during the creation of the mountains. As the mountains slowly erode away, these massive pluton monoliths are harder than the surrounding terrain and are therefore left exposed.
On this particular morning, this was supposed to just be a quick stop for a shot as I was passing by on my way to find better conditions. It had been raining fairly heavily under rather boring gray skies and my plan was to drive west to find the edge of the storm, which wasn't supposed to end until hours later, and hopefully find some sweet light to work with. Things didn't turn out that way, and thank goodness I stopped here to grab a quick shot before heading further down the road. Just minutes after stopping and starting to shoot, the sky started breaking open in places and raining down this beautiful light all over the valley in front of me. It was an extremely difficult scene to shoot as I had to stand on top of my truck to get this perspective over the brightly colored sassafras in the foreground, which meant shooting handheld, in somewhat dark conditions, with a need for an extremely deep depth of field forcing shutter speeds much slower than normal, while it rained all over my lens for pretty much every shot. Almost every frame had big water droplets somewhere, but the scene was so beautifully surreal that I knew I just had to shoot it. In the fifteen minutes or so I was there, the scene changed very rapidly from gray and boring to absolutely beautiful, and then straight to crystal clear blue skies hours ahead of schedule. I never did find another shot that day as the sky was brutally clear and sunny immediately after shooting this scene. No matter how well we research weather patterns, read forecasts, and plan ahead of time, in these mountains sometimes Mother Nature has her own plan, and we are simply lucky to be there as it unfolds in unexpected ways. Hope you enjoy the view!
Single exposure, Nikon D850 w/ 24-70mm f/2.8 and Singh-Ray 3-stop GND
© 2019 Dave Allen Photography, All Rights Reserved. This image may NOT be used for anything without my explicit permission.
A warm summer day in Alaska, but not along Turnagain Arm where it always seems to have a cool, strong wind to remind you that Winter is Coming!
Turnagain Arm near Bird Point, Alaska
There are 6 families of bees in North America. The bee here Melitta melittoides is member of Melittidae. Melittidae has only 2 genera of bees in the East. Most of them are highly specialized. Our friend here is a Lyonia (maleberry) specialist. In the face shot of the female...check out the size of those mandibles. I am not sure what their use is, but it would be either in opening up flowers or some sort of nesting function. I know of no other bee that has anything close to that shape. Collected on Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Anne Arundel County Maryland.
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All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Happy #NationalWildlifeDay! Celebrated on September 4th, National Wildlife Day is about we can do to protect endangered species and their habitats. This bear encounter in @sequoiakingsnps was one of the best wildlife encounters I’ve ever had and perfectly exemplifies how habitats and species are intertwined. The bear might not be overtly threatened but Sequoias and their environments are under constant threats from wildfires and global warming. We have to protect one to save the other. Getting to see this bear was a sublime experience; he paid no attention to us and was content to hunt for roots and berries in the middle of the meadow, about 100 yards from the trail. This gave me ample time and security to set up my tripod and document his work as the sun began to set lighting up the trees around us. It was a perfect moment. Swipe through the gallery to see the sunset, too. A bear and a sunset amongst Sequoias! Time stood still. It was a wonderful moment that’ll be with me for a long time.
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🌐 - In @sequoiakingsnps, you are on Western Mono land. #FindYourPark
- shot on a #sonya7riv, #shotwithhoya’s polarizer with a 70-300 mm lens. Edited in #Lightroom.
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A recent snow in Yosemite added some wonderful winter feel in the valley. Although not enough for Firefalls this year, perhaps next year will be better.
April's Pink Moon's moonset, just before sunrise, from Everglades National Park. The moon is seen setting behind pine trees on the way to the Mahogany Hammock trail. The moon appears full but the "official" phase started four hours later.
When I got up here years ago a guy had already illuminated the arch (light painting is no longer allowed in Arches).. a little later in the night a group of hikers came up to the top spilling their headlamps across the foreground lighting that up for me as well.. So I can't take credit for the lighting, but luck and timing is everything.
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🎼 Like a poem said by a lady in red… 🎶 - @ladygaga
Mayhem Ball. Tonight. Miami. Can’t wait.
This part of Antelope Canyon X looks like a lady made out of stone with her hair, flowing behind her. One of the guides also called her the “mother of the canyon”. While she was easy to see last year in earlier morning light, this year, cloaked in the darkness of the afternoon, she was much more ethereal, evocative, and hard to see.
Traveling through a slot canyon is an exercise in light and texture. Most times, the light is muted and soft and ethereal, causing the whole environment to glow and be uniform. But other moments, where the walls either recede or extend in dramatic fashion, bend the light and throw perspective into sharp relief. That’s what you’re seeing here.
️- across Utah and Arizona, you are in the Navajo Nation. In Navajo, sacred land is referred to as Diné Bikéyah. This land belongs to the people. Hopitutskwa, Pueblos, and Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) land is also found across these two states and at archeological sites and natural sites. It is an honor to see them.
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Alaskan morning light reflected in the ever-swirling, ever-changing waters flowing from the lake.
Daves Creek near Tern Lake
Moose Pass, Alaska
Now, here is Augochloropsis metallica metallica. See the previous post about A. m. fulgida for contrast. Note the generally darker blue and the fringe of stiff hairs along the edge of the abdomen.Brooke Googins is the photographer. This bee was collected on Plummer's Island as part of Gene Scarpulla's bee project in the Chesapeake Bay of Maryland. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
The connection I felt with Joshua Tree was almost immediate. Almost too immediate, honestly, because the experiences I had entering the park were sudden, chaotic, and grand. I’ve never entered a park in such a fashion. Usually, my first hours in a national park are planned out, methodical, and subdued. Not so in Joshua Tree where I entered the park at sunset, saw the 2022 lunar eclipse, and then experienced my first earthquake. It was thrilling. I love Joshua Tree for a lot of reasons- its strange beauty, its open vastness, its overwhelming quiet and the solitude of the Mojave, but, honestly? Those first moments of frantic connection and discovery set the whole tone for my relationship with what is now one of my favorite national parks.
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A recent trip to Yosemite on it's first winter storm. We arrived at the park under a heavy blizzard condition, but quite excited seeing the park coated with thick layer of snow. To our luck that as soon as we arrived at Tunnel View, the sky opened up for a good half an hour. Yosemite at it's best during winter.
"20 years from now, you'll be more disappointed by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sail, and Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
Every trip to Yosemite is fantastic and unique but being snowed in last week definitely tops the list.❄️
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Took me forever to find this waterfall as there aren't any signs even promoting "Twin Sisters Falls" located in Cuyahoga National Park. But, with some help of the All Trails app I was able to finally find the general area I was supposed to be in. After making my way through a slippery, narrow trail and paralleling a small creek I found this beautiful location. About 15 minutes after shooting, I turned around to get my bag and about had the crap scared out of me as I suddenly saw two people walking up the same creek bed.
Chris (pictured in the photo) was out and about showing his friend Tainui who'm he met while doing seasonal work in Zion National Park around the area and had also heard of this waterfall. Both are fellow hikers, photographers and future van life travelers. Chris proceeded to tell me about his adventures out in Zion, Yosemetti, and Glacier National Parks and I think was equally as excited as I was to stumble across another adventurer from Ohio as they are pretty rare to come by. Heers to new friendships and embracing the beautiful Winter scenes before Spring and Summer travels come back.
Bodie Island Lighthouse with the Milky Way. June 2022.
The first night of my OBX Night Sky Workshop was here at Bodie Island Lighthouse, it has always been a favorite of mine in the OBX, but as the years have passed by, more and more photographers are here at night.
On this particular night there was about 70 photographers. I typically max my group out between 6-7 to keep numbers down and to provide enough attention to everyone while limiting our impacts on whatever areas we travel to. There was another workshop group there that night with 30+ and that is unacceptable to me for a number of reasons and nothing good ever comes out of that. Keep those groups small people!
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A young couple embraces the beauty of Death Valley last week during a spectacular sunset. I wish that I had put some effort into tracking them down so I could send them this shot, but the clouds hypnotized me and I couldn't stop shooting... you know how that goes...
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