Artist’s Palette Drive ~ Death Valley NationalPark
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December 2017
Artist’s Palette Drive
This Was a Challenge Between the Wind and Sand & Grit
That and An Overwhelming Number of Photo Opportunities
Will Need To Return and Often
From Artist’s Palette Road Shooting Back Towards Badwater Just Before the Wind and Wind Blown Sand & Grit Ruled the Day
Bajada Boulder In the Foreground
Smart Car In the Mid-Ground
Badwater Flats In the Background
Link To Death Valley National Park Expanded Image Galley
Lots of Variety In Death Valley NP, Lots of Variety In the Gallery
Patience While the Gallery Slide Show Loads
Enjoy
Thanks For Visiting ~ Commentary Always Appreciated
Harmony Borax Works ~ Death Valley National Park
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December 2017
Harmony Borax Works
Excellent Imagining, Researching, Staging & Presentation of the Original Harmony Borax Operation
Take the Time, Make the Time To Go Hear A NPS Ranger Interpretive Presentation On the Harmony Borax Works
View From Above the Twenty Mule Team Wagons Looking East To the Funeral Mountains
Link To Death Valley National Park Expanded Image Galley
Lots of Variety In Death Valley NP, Lots of Variety In the Gallery
Patience While the Gallery Slide Show Loads
Enjoy
Thanks For Visiting ~ Commentary Always Appreciated
Mustard Canyon ~ Death Valley National Park
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December 2017
Mustard Canyon
Wind and Sand Storm Over Badwater Blowing From Mesquite Flats
View To the West Towards the Panamints As One Enters Mustard Canyon
View To the East, Funeral Mountains Upon Leaving Mustard Canyon.
The Mustard Color In the Foreground Almost Overwhelmingly Comprises All of Mustard Canyon and Gives Said Canyon Its Eponymous Name
Link To Death Valley National Park Expanded Image Galley
Lots of Variety Here ~ Patience While the Gallery Slide Show Loads ~ Enjoy
Thanks For Visiting ~ Commentary Always Appreciated
Ash Meadows NWR
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Ash Meadows NWR
It Is All About the Pupfish, Do You Remember the Brouhaha, and Rightly So, Over the Pupfish
Geologic Faults Forcing Fossil Water Up Into the Amargosa Valley Desert As Seeps and Springs Resulting In An Oasis In the Mojave Desert. Ancient Pupfish Living In Those Seeps and Springs
The Devil’s Hole Pupfish, the Ash Meadows Amargosa Pupfish, the Warm Springs Pupfish, and the Ash Meadows Speckled Dace Are All Endangered and All Inhabit Springs, Holes and Streams In Death Valley NP and Ash Meadows NWR.
Back In the Day, the Sixties, These Fish and Conservation Activists Championing Them, Brought Farming, Development and Ground Water Pumping In the Midst of the Mojave Desert In the Amargosa Valley To a Court Ordered Halt, Resulting In the Establishment of the Ash Meadows NWR.
It Is All About the Water, Fossil Water, and the Geology.
“Water is the key natural resource that makes Ash Meadows a unique ecosystem in the dry Mojave Desert. Where does it come from? Over 100 miles to the northeast water enters a vast underground aquifer system. This water, also known as fossil water, takes thousands of years to move through the ground. A geologic faultacts as an underground dam partially blocking the flow of water and forcing it to the surface into over 50 seeps and springs. Over 10,000 gallons per minute flow year round, most of which come from seven major springs.”
“Ash Meadows has the greatest concentration of endemic life in the United States and second greatest in all of North America.
At least 26 endemic species have adapted to live in and around the waters of Ash Meadows”
August 2016 US Fish and Wildlife Service Publication Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
Bosque del Apache NWR 12-2017 ~ Day 3 AM
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Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
San Antonio, New Mexico
12-4 2017
Morning Shoot Day Three
Northern Shoveler 
A Nod and Kudos to Jeff Parker and Mary O of Explore In Focus for once again going above and beyond.
Contact these folks for quality photography tours.
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Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR 2017
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del ApacheBosque del Apache NWR 2016
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bitter Lake NWR ~ Lesser Sandhill Cranes
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Aransas NWR ~ Whooping Cranes
Bosque del Apache NWR 12-2017 ~ Day 2 PM
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Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
San Antonio, New Mexico
12-3 2017
Afternoon/Evening Shoot Day Two
A Nod and Kudos to Jeff Parker and Mary O of Explore In Focus for once again going above and beyond.
Contact these folks for quality photography tours.
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Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR 2017
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del ApacheBosque del Apache NWR 2016
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bitter Lake NWR ~ Lesser Sandhill Cranes
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Aransas NWR ~ Whooping Cranes
Bosque del Apache NWR 12-2017 ~ Day 2 AM
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Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
San Antonio, New Mexico
12-3 2017
Morning Shoot Day Two
Morning Activity ~ Crane Pools
Morning Light On Sandhill Cranes Leaving the Roost To Feed 
Last of the Sandhill Cranes Leaving the Roost 
Gambel’s Quail Looking For Sky Grain 😉
A Nod and Kudos to Jeff Parker and Mary O of Explore In Focus for once again going above and beyond.
Contact these folks for quality photography tours.
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Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR 2017
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del ApacheBosque del Apache NWR 2016
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bitter Lake NWR ~ Lesser Sandhill Cranes
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Aransas NWR ~ Whooping Cranes
Bosque del Apache NWR 12-2017 ~ Day 1
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12-2 2017
A Special Place, A Special PresenceNew Equipment Learning Curve
In the End Resulting In Some Nice Flight Sequences & Flight Captures 
Long Tall Drink of Water 
Morning Light 
Before Morning Light 
Gambel’s Quail ~ Male & Female
A Nod and Kudos to Jeff Parker and Mary O of Explore In Focus for once again going above and beyond.
Contact these folks for quality photography tours.
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Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR 2017
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del ApacheBosque del Apache NWR 2016
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bitter Lake NWR ~ Lesser Sandhill Cranes
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Aransas NWR ~ Whooping Cranes
Bosque del Apache NWR 12-2017 ~ Day 1 / Blind
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12-3 2017
A Special Place, A Special Presence
Images from a two-person blind at the Bosque Bird Watchers RV Park just outside of the Refuge.
European Starlings ~ Non-Native Invasive Species
Blame It On Shakespeare 
Scrub Jay 
Ground Squirrel 
Gambel’s Quail ~ Female 
Gambel’s Quail ~ Male 
Whoops ~ Red-Winged Blackbird, Female ~ Who Knew (Jeff Parker)
A Nod and Kudos to Jeff Parker and Mary O of Explore In Focus for once again going above and beyond.
Contact these folks for quality photography tours.
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Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR 2017
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR 2016
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bosque del Apache NWR
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bitter Lake NWR ~ Lesser Sandhill Cranes
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Aransas NWR ~ Whooping Cranes
la Mesilla, New Mexico
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Grab shots after lunch at Andeles Dog House in Mesilla, New Mexico.
Lucky finds all around.
Basilica de San Albino on the Plaza
Classy Antique Truck on the Grounds of St Clair Winery & Bistro 
Sweet
White Sands National Monument
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Thank You to Herbert Hoover and the Antiquities Act
Gotta Go Out of One’s Way To Get Here
Tough Place to Capture Images
I Will Forever View Images of White Sands National Monument With Awe and Humility
Tons of Recent Visitation
Had to Walk Forever to Find Fresh Untrammeled Sand
Bitter Lake NWR ~ Lesser Sandhill Cranes
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Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Southeastern New Mexico ~ Outside of Roswell
Wintering Grounds and/or Stopover For Lesser Sandhill Cranes
Raptor Flyover ~ Morning
Not to be Overlooked ~ Snow Geese
Lesser Sandhill Cranes Returning to Roost
These guys (compared to the Great Sandhill Cranes) breed at more northern latitudes such as the arctic, are smaller and the smallest, weighing on average about 6-7 pounds and standing 3-3.5 feet tall.
The Bitter Lake Lesser Sandhills migrate as far as Western Alaska & Siberia.
Kudos to Steve Alvarez and Staff, Jim Montgomery and the Friends of Bitter Lake NWR for a well done educational and experiential outreach ~ Cranes & Cocoa 2017
Nice Community
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Bitter Lake NWR
December 2011 ~ Bitter Lake NWR Blog Post Link
Wichita Mountains NWR ~ Oklahoma
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Southwestern Oklahoma outside of Lawton & Cache
Do not miss the Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton, Oklahoma ~ Exceptional
We will return to the Refuge and the Museum
Home to Big Mammals : Bison, Elk & Longhorn Cattle
An unfortunate fence between the restricted area and the public access area.
By the road for most of the way.
Morning hunt over the prairie dog town.
Prairie Dogs being social !?!
Crab Eyes ~ Wichita Mountains NWR
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Crab Eyes
Wichita Mountains NWR ~ Southwestern Oklahoma
Day hike into the Charons Graden Wilderness Area
Expanded Image Gallery ~ Crab Eyes Trail Slide Show
Jefferson, Texas
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Grab Shots of An Interesting Texas Town, A Town With Some History
Caddo Lake ~ Flight
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Flight Sequences
Northeast Texas on the Texas~Louisiana Border
Once Again, Gotta Have a Boat or Access To Be On the Water
Contact Paul Keith ~ Nice Guy With a Bass Boat and Knowledge of the Lake :
318-455-3437 ~ caddoguide1@att.net
… going the other way. 
Caddo Lake Expanded Image Gallery Link
Caddo Lake ~ Swampscapes
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Northeast Texas on the Texas~Louisiana Border
Gotta Have a Boat or Access To Be On the Water
Contact Paul Keith ~ Nice Guy With a Bass Boat and Photographer’s Knowledge of the Lake :
318-455-3437 ~ caddoguide1@att.net
Beautiful Even On a Cloudy Overcast Morning Sans Sunrise
Back In the Day Telephone Poles to the Other Side
Government Ditch ~ Civil War Era 
Caddo Lake Expanded Image Gallery Link
Seal Cove (Maine) Auto Museum
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Seal Cove (Maine) Auto Museum
Who knew?
A collection of fine classic, vintage and antique automobiles, well displayed and creatively interpreted.
Did I mention brass!!
Well worth the journey.
Ile Grand Manan ~ August, 2017
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Ile Grand Manan ~ August, 2017
Ile Grand Manan ~ August, 2017
Link ~ Expanded Image Gallery ~ Ile Grand Manan, August, 2017
Link ~ Expanded Image Gallery ~ Ile Grand Manan. June, 2017
Link ~ Expanded Image Gallery ~ Ile Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada, 2015
Ile Grand Manan ~ 6-2017
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Ile Grand Manan ~ June, 2017
In the photographic company of one Noel Chenier,
A photographic workshop/tour done well!!
Ile Grand Manan ~ NB ~ Canada ~ 2015 Photo-Blog Entry Link
Ile Grand Manan ~ 6-2017 ~ June 2017 Gallery Link
Whale Cove ~ Ile Grand Manan 
Morning Light From Swallowtail Light ~ Ile Grand Manan 
Perspectives On Swallowtail Light ~ Ile Grand Manan 
Mid-Day Moving Waters ~ Deep Cove ~ Ile Grand Manan 
North Harbor Wharf Reflection ~ Ile Grand Manan 
Evening Moving Waters ~ Dark Harbor ~ Ile Grand Manan 
Macro Starburst ~ Deep Cove ~ Ile Grand Manan
Ile Grand Manan ~ June, 2017
In the photographic company of one Noel Chenier,
A photographic workshop/tour done well!!
Ile Grand Manan ~ NB ~ Canada ~ 2015 Photo-Blog Entry Link
Ile Grand Manan ~ 6-2017 ~ June 2017 Gallery Link
