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2019 New York Airshow – Blue Angels & RAF Red Arrows
The New York Airshow at Stewart Airport featured some great flying, including the Blue Angels and the RAF Red Arrows. I attended with my friend Howard. Getting up close to the planes is fun, but seeing them fly so close is really special and provided opportunity to photograph them in action. My Sony RX10 II…
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Backyard Birds
There are plenty of birds in the backyard. Here are a few favorites photographed in Sudbury, Massachusetts in the fall of 2016. The setup isn’t an accident. I put a 6 foot stand behind my first floor office and provided branches to perch on and food to bring them in. Chickadees, white crested nuthatches, cardinals,…
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The Butterfly Place
The Butterfly Place is a single glass atrium in Westford, Massachusetts, kept warm and humid year-round. There are hundreds of butterflies flying free among the plantings. And they’re big! It’s a rare setup where you can get within inches of species you could never approach outdoors. If you sit still long enough they’ll land on…
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Sudbury River
Egrets, herons, ducks, turtles, and quiet water along the Sudbury River in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Early September 2016.
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Home Garden
We’re not serious gardeners. The beds around our house in Sudbury get intermittent attention. Yet every summer something comes up looking better than we could have expected. The snapping turtle lives in the swamp across the road and comes over to our side to lay it’s eggs. She wasn’t happy about it, but couldn’t escape…
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Colorado
In late June 2016 I followed by son, Tom, around Colorado for a few days as he played summer baseball and then headed north to Rocky Mountain National park and the Colorado high country Rocky Mountain National Park compresses an enormous amount of landscape into a short drive. Trail Ridge Road climbs above 12,000 feet…
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2016 Baseball
This gallery spans a summer of baseball at four different levels — Lincoln-Sudbury High School, the Summit Extreme Black Diamonds at Breckenridge Colorado, Sudbury Post 191 American Legion, and the Red Sox at Fenway. The contrast is the interesting part. At a high school or Legion field you can stand anywhere and get close to…
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Hawaii
We visited the Big Island of Hawaii and Oahu. The volcanos left behind lava fields and dramatic coastline. From March 2016. The Big Island is geologically young. It’s Lava fields are from historic flows that run right down to the water in black sheets. The coastline alternates between raw a’a rock and pockets of beach…
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So Cal – Imperial Valley, Salton Sea & Palomar
Exploring the Imperial Valley, the Salton Sea, and Palomar in Southern California during the summer of 2015. The Salton Sea is a strange place. It’s an accidental lake, created in 1905 when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal, and it’s been slowly shrinking and growing saltier since. The shoreline is built from fish bones,…
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So Cal Food Chain
As I traveled So Cal in the summer of 2015 I noticed the food chain that started in California’s Imperial Valley as alphalpha ended up at the In-N-Out in San Diego. Now that’s a tasty burger.
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