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Photo of the Week – November 29, 2012
Yes, you’ve seen this photo before… This is the same photo I used for the Photo of the Week back on November 16. When I get back from a photography venture, I usually try to sort through and process...
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How (Not) to Photograph Prairie Dogs – Part 2 (Why are you laughing??)
Back in March, I wrote about a failed attempt to photograph prairie dogs about 15 miles south of where I live. Apparently, many of you thought it was hilariously funny and had a nice time chuckling at...
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Frosty Morning Walk
We got our first real snow of the season last week. Early Friday morning, I braved the icy roads and made it to our Platte River Prairies in time for a sunrise walk. It was a beautiful morning. The...
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Photo of the Week – February 14, 2013
It’s a tough time of year to be a wildflower photographer. The first spring flowers are still months away, and fall flowers are a distant memory. What’s a guy to do? Gotta make the best of things, I...
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Confessions of a Data-Starved Scientist/Photographer
Here’s a sign that I’ve been spending too much time in meetings, and not enough time working on science projects. Apparently, I’m getting a little desperate for some data to analyze… The other night,...
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Photo of the Week – February 28, 2013
Here’s a photo interpretation puzzle for you. Last Saturday, I was hiking through the fresh snow in a small local prairie when I found this interesting print. An interesting print in fresh snow....
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Photo of the Week – May 2, 2013
As I wrote in an earlier post, my boys and I were at our family prairie last weekend. Only three flower species were blooming. One of those was ground plum (Astragalus crassicarpus, aka buffalo pea),...
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A Prickly Confrontation
While we were setting up timelapse cameras at the Niobrara Valley Preserve a couple weeks ago, I had an encounter with a creature I’d never seen up close before. It was evening, and Jeff Dale was...
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Photo of the Week – May 9, 2013
A red-sided garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis). The Nature Conservancy’s Platte River Prairies, Nebraska. Click on this or other photos for a larger, sharper image. I ran across this beautiful garter...
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Photo of the Week – June 27, 2013
The wind finally let up enough to do some close-up photography last weekend, so I went to a small prairie here in town and wandered a bit. Among numerous curiosities was the abundance of a tiny...
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Photo of the Week – July 11, 2013
Every visit to a prairie is different – partially because the prairie is always changing, and partially because I focus on different aspects or species each time. This week, I was near Griffith...
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Isn’t it a little late to be nesting?
As you might remember, my Photo of the Week last week was an image of a fledgling meadowlark I’d found in mid-September. At the time, I’d talked about how surprised I was to see such a young bird so...
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Working Outside My Comfort Zone
A Brief Photo Journal: Late last week, I found myself driving through the middle of the Nebraska sandhills as the sun was getting low in the sky. I decided to stop and check out a small federal...
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Photo of the Week – November 14, 2013
Last week, I took a short early morning trip out to my family prairie. As the sun came up, its light was caught beautifully by the fuzzy seeds of various prairie plants, particularly stiff goldenrod...
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Photo of the Week – November 28, 2013
Does any animal evoke a stronger sense of prairie than the plains bison? Bison at The Nature Conservancy’s Niobrara Valley Preserve in the sandhills of north-central Nebraska. Click on the image for a...
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Photo of the Week – December 5, 2013
Continuing the theme from earlier this week, here is another photo of a sunflower seed head. This one was taken on a frosty morning last week. A Maximilian sunflower seed head. Deep Well Wildlife...
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Photo of the Week – January 30, 2014
Of the many categories of art in the world, the still life is not one of my favorites. I appreciate the skill needed to create a nice still life photo or painting, but I don’t often find them very...
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Seventeen-Year Cicadas are Back! (in Iowa, at Least)
I traveled to Iowa this week (more on that next week) and just happened to arrive during the emergence of one of the world’s most intriguing insects – the periodical cicada (Magicicada sp). Made up of...
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Realistic Motion Photography (Of Cute Fuzzy Mice)
You may remember a previous post in which I described a project to evaluate the impact of our prairie restoration work on small mammals. Mike Schrad, a Nebraska Master Naturalist, is helping us...
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Photo of the Week – August 8, 2014
I usually shoot more than one composition of a scene or creature. It’s fun to experiment, and hard to know what I’ll like best when I am reviewing images on my computer later. Of course, having...
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