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  • Elephants with Friend

    Elephants with Friend

    I’m taking photoshop classes with my great teacher Denise Ippolito.  She helped me put this great photo together today.  Oh so much to learn!  

  • Bluebird of Happiness

    Bluebird of Happiness

     Got back to Valley Forge today and just bathed in the bluebirds.  I am trying to shoot totally in manual.  In all these years I have not done it.  I think it’s about time.  Here’s my gal for today.

  • New Book – Kenya 2021

    New Book – Kenya 2021

    It’s been about three weeks since I got home from Kenya and I have spent way too much time trying to put this little book together.  Well, here it is for your viewing pleasure.  Go ahead.  It’s a lot of fun.  https://www.blurb.com/b/10983367-kenya-2021

  • Going Through So Many Photographs

    Going Through So Many Photographs

     I got home on Saturday night after some 30 hours and four planes in transit from Amboseli National Park in Kenya to Nairobi to Frankfurt to Toronto to Philadelphia.  Shewwww.  Tom and daughter Jessica were at the airport to pick me up and carry me home.  And now the process of going through all…

  • The Elephants of Amboseli

    The Elephants of Amboseli

     We are here in Amboseli National Park in Kenya.  Yesterday we had the opportunity to photograph the magnificent elephants.  I am actually laying on the ground in the dusty dried mud with a wide angle lens to get this photograph.  They were walking almost right over my head.  A little scary, but so much…

  • Leopard Saga – Second Day in Kenya

    Leopard Saga – Second Day in Kenya

    We found this beautiful baby leopard in a tree on our second day in the Mara.  Soon afterwards the leopard’s mom called and he climbed down the tree and joined her, but there were hyena around and the leopards were both quite worried and skittish.  So the baby disappeared again and the mom climbed…

  • Ears and Paws in Kenya

    Ears and Paws in Kenya

    I am here in Kenya for about two weeks.  On our first day here we found the most wonderful pride of lions – 11 cubs – 4 females and 2 males.  The first picture below is one of the cubs.  More to follow!!

  • The Ant and the Aphids

    The Ant and the Aphids

        I did a little research and found the ant and the aphids have a symbiotic relationship.  The ant “farms” and protects the aphid colony from other preditory insects and the aphids secret a little honeydew that the ant loves to eat.  Some ants actually “milk” the aphids by stroking their little abdomens…

  • The Hawks are Having a Field Day!!

    The Hawks are Having a Field Day!!

    The big field along Gulph Road in Valley Forge has recently been mown.  The hawks were having a field day looking for voles and grasshoppers.  I spent a good two hours just having the time of my life shooting these two beautiful birds.