Sept 24, 2018 My sisters Nanette and Melinda headed for Utah to help Nan’s grandchild and family pack for another move. This was a great thing since I’d be driving through Salt Lake City and Spanish Fork on my way to Price for the rodeo. I had been worried earlier in the week since HUGE … More Birding S. Utah Lake
Sept 21 & 22, 2018 I’m putting photos from the Friday night performance, Saturday morning slack and Saturday night performance all onto this one blog post. The lighting and scenery at the Price rodeo was awesome. The thing about shooting rodeos that makes me a little crazy is that I find it hard to predict … More College Rodeo: Price UT
Saturday Sept 15, 2018 The quest: get a picture of Canada geese on the wing with pine trees in the photo. So I left my house at 6:00 a.m. (I missed my 5:00 departure because I really wanted to sleep) and headed for Island Park ID. The perfect location and since the geese are headed … More Island Park & Yellowstone
Sept 7 & 8, 2018 Just a few of the photos. Click on any of them to get to my Flickr folder of 200+ photos from this rodeo. Or check out the ISU Rodeo Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ISURodeoTeam/ for more photos of ISU’s student & animal athletes. Idaho State University team flag Excited flag/rodeo queen horse Sunset … More College Rodeo: Cedar City
Sunday Sept 9, 2018 I woke up really early in the morning. I had planned detouring around the Cedar Breaks road in search of birds, but changed my plan. I wanted to get home. The early departure meant that I was nearing my favorite bird refuge just after noon. There are always birds at the … More Bear River Refuge – Sept 2018
The Cedar City slack part of the rodeo started at 10:00 in the morning which was great because I was able to sleep in, but it was also bad because the sun was already up and warm when I got to the uncovered bleachers. By 12:30 I was melting. And then my camera froze up. … More Drive through Cedar Breaks
Sunday September 2nd I don’t know what I was thinking. I KNOW that Labor Day weekend is one of the busiest days at Yellowstone. I was thinking I could outsmart the crowds and visit some of the lesser known places. Sure, there’d be traffic and people, but I could cope. Sadly for them I roped … More Labor Day – Yellowstone
The Intermountain Professional Rodeo Association Championship Finals in Pocatello August 24 & 25. I wasn’t sure I was going to attend this rodeo, but I got home from work on Friday and felt like taking the camera out on a date. So off we went. I used the large lens and over the course of … More IMPRA Rodeo – Pocatello
This gorgeous movie starring birds of all kinds covers seven continents and all four seasons. It features lovely music and is compellingly shot so the audience participates in the flight and lives of the birds the documentary follows on their migrations. 90 minutes in length it stars many kinds of birds and two humans Jacques Perrin and … More Review: Winged Migration
I love American avocets. They were one of the first birds I had to identify by myself. They arrive first in Utah in March and then Idaho shortly after. I know spring is here when I see them. Their coloring reminds me of Creamsicles or if you want something more grown up orange Italian soda … More American Avocets
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