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Yumiko in Her White Coat
Yumiko has been a student at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for about one year. She is a hard working woman and making it through. Today she asked me if I might come and take a picture of her in her white coat. I was thrilled and took a thousand photos of her…
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The Great American Toad Migration…..
When I got to the pools at Pawling Farm I noticed the toads immediately. Everywhere I walked little tiny toads were underfoot. Thousands and thousands and thousands of them. Just a fingernail in length and with so much energy and determination. I knew I had to get a good picture. But they were so…
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Owen Biddle’s Black and White Photo Class
I didn’t have a chance to get out and photograph today, but I was going through old, old photographs and came across this 2010 wild photo assignment. I was taking a class with Owen Biddle and he wanted us to photograph emotion in black and white. I remember setting this up with a camera…
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The Oven Bird is Back
The only oven bird I ever saw and photographed was in Valley Forge probably around 2010 until last year. Charlestown Meadows is full of these little beauties. And today I found them again. Here are two of one and a shot of the Wood Thrush who is also back, Oh such fun!!! Oven Bird…
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Eastern College Pond Today
I only had about an hour and a half this morning. I decided to go to Eastern College Pond and look for baby Canada geese. Instead I found a beautiful Eastern Phoebe who posed for me and two blue gray gnatcatchers building a nest in a tall tree along the banks of the pond.…
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The Shy Damselfly – Today in Valley Forge
It was a very chilly morning today. I found this little damselfly asleep on a leaf. He got a rather rude awakening with my camera, but it was just too cold for him to fly away. It was loads of fun – at least for me. (Click on him for the full effect.)
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Oh Spring and the Insects!! And We’ve Only Just Begun.
Nymph Katydid on a Buttercup Really Smart Damselflies The Crabby Crab Spider
