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  • Eagle and Omega Nebulas

    The Eagle and The Omega
  • Snake Nebula

    Dark and Dusty – Snake Nebula
  • Totality Triad

    Lunar Eclipse Totality Triad
  • Lagoon and Trifid

    Nebula of the Core: Lagoon and Trifid
  • Blue Horsehead

    The Blue Horsehead
  • M51 Closeup

    The Whirlpool Galaxy – M51
  • M31 Color

    Andromeda Galaxy – M31, M32 & M110
  • Cuddle Puddle

    Cuddle Puddle!
  • Redwing-3

    Redwing Blackbird
  • Parenthood-2

    Parenthood
  • Yellowlegs-1

    Yellowlegs
  • Cute Beauty-1

    Spring Beauties and the Silent Sunset
  • Wing-1

    Wing
  • Goslings-2

    Goslings!
  • Birds in Flight-1

    Birds in Flight
  • Rosette Broadband - Natural LRGB - Light-Sat - Blog

    The Stellar Rose
  • Birds of Duck Lake - Take Two-2

    Birds of Duck Lake, Take Two
  • Hall Valley and the North Fork South Platte

    North Fork of the South Platte River
  • More Midwinter Birds-1

    More Midwinter Birds
  • Midwinter Birds - Black Capped Chickadee

    Midwinter Birds
  • Lovejoy C2014 Q2

    It’s Comet Time Again! Lovejoy, C/2014 Q2
  • Horsehead and Flame (Dark Site Widefield)

    Horsehead and Flame Revisited – Ten Months Later, the Journey and the Breakthrough
  • Orion's Sword Wide Field - Blog

    Orion’s Sword – Wide Field Dust and Reflections
  • The Blue Jay and the Conucopia of Peanuts-7

    The Blue Jay and the Cornucopia of Peanuts
  • Great Blue Heron Dam Portrait-1

    Great Blue Heron
  • Red-winged Blackbirds in a Field of Cats-2

    A Cat’Field Full of Blackbirds
  • Partial Solar Eclipse-1

    Partial Solar Eclipse
  • Purple Sky Moon-1

    A Purple Sky Moon
  • Red Tailed Hawk Perching Comfortably-3

    Juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk
  • Maple Fall Wide-1

    Maple & Boke
  • Flight of the Sunset Geese-1

    Flight of the Sunset Geese
  • Orions Sword Wide Field

    Orion’s Sword – Dust and Reflections
  • Moon Craters, Mountains, Mares - Wide - 1

    Moon Closeups – Mare Ibrium Mountains
  • Deep Floral Macros-5

    Floral & Insect Macros
  • Pleiades Wide - CN Blog 3

    The Pleiades – Eight Months Later
  • Spotted Sandpiper Non-Breeding-6

    Spotted Sandpipers – Non-breeding
  • Andromeda Galaxy

    Andromeda Galaxy
  • The Picnick Grove at Bar-K-1

    Picnic Grove
  • Cygnus - North American And Pelican Nebulas

    The Cygnus Molecular Clouds
  • 50mm Forest Landscape Boke-2

    Forest Boke
  • Rose Bush-9

    Rose
  • Ultra High Res Waning Gibbous Moon-1

    Ultra High Res Moon – Waning Gibbous
  • Various Wildlife-3

    Various Wildlife
  • Peonies-1

    Peonie
  • Finchfest-11

    Finchfest!
  • Evergreen-1

    Evergreen
  • Alien Landscape-12

    Alien Landscapes
  • Night Heron-2

    Night Heron’s Fishing Night
  • Cute Little Prairie Dog-3

    Cute Little Prairie Dog
  • Moon-Mars Conjunction July 5, 2014

    Moon – Mars Conjunction
  • Nuthatch

    Nuthatch
  • Thunderstorm 2014-4

    Thunderstorm
  • Curious Deer-6

    Curious Deer
  • First Snowy Egret with the 5D III-1

    Snowy Egret Portrait
  • Evening Lightning Storm

    Lightning Storm
  • North America Nebula (NGC 7000)

    North America Nebula (NGC 7000)
  • Evening Teal

    Evening Teal
  • Western Meadowlark-2

    Western Meadowlark
  • Backyard Florals-3

    Backyard Florals
  • White-faced/Glossy Hybrid

    A Flock of Ibis
  • Wildlife and Birds at Cherry Creek Pt. A-1

    Birding Season Arrives!
  • Dove Love

    Dove Love
  • Total Lunar Eclipse April 2014 - Totality Triad Blog

    Total Lunar Eclipse – Tetrad Series #1 of 4 – April 2014
  • Rosette Nebula

    Rosette Nebula, Reprocessed
  • M81, M82 & NGC 3077 - Ursa Major

    Galaxies: M101, M81 & M82, M51, Leo Triplet
  • Soaking up the Afternoon Sun-3

    Soaking up the Afternoon Sun
  • The Rosette Nebula

    The Rosette Nebula
  • M51

    First Try at Galaxies
  • Orion Nebula and Running Man

    Orion and Running Man – Conquered at Last!
  • M35 and NGC2158

    M35 and NCG2158 – Open Clusters in Gemini
  • The Pleiades Reflection Nebulas

    The Pleiades – Reimaged and Remastered
  • Flame and Horse Head Closeup

    Close up of Flame and Horse Head Nebulas
  • Horse Head and Flame Nebulas

    Horse Head and Flame Nebulas – First Try
  • My first attempt at imaging the Pleiades. Imaged with the EF 600mm f/4 L II, Orion Atlas EQ-G, Orion SSAG guider, BackyardEOS, DeepSkyStacker, and Photoshop.

    The Pleiades, Improved
  • The Pleiades

    First Light & The Pleiades
  • A very large fly, seemingly near the end of it's life, dangles precariously from a small apple tree twig. Natural sunset light.

    Eye Into the Macro World
  • Jewel Cave Delecate Formations

    Some History: Geology and Photography
  • The Prairie Dogs of Dog Town-16

    The Prairie Dogs of “Dog Town”
  • Howling at the Moon

    Howling at the Moon
  • Invasion of the Bushtits-11

    Invasion of the Bushtits!
  • Ferruginous Hawk-3

    Rough-Legged Hawk
  • New Years Milky Way

    New Years Milky Way and the Orion Axis of Nebula
  • Christmas Eve Finch

    Little Christmas Eve Finch
  • One-eyed Buck in the Bush

    Old One-eye and his Yearlings
  • Fluffy Little Kestrel

    Fluffy Little Kestrel
  • Christmas Coyote

    Christmas Collaboration
  • A Gull of a Day

    A Gull of a Day
  • Sunset Silhouettes-1

    Sunset Silhouettes
  • Flight of the Gulls

    Flight of the Gulls

  • Comet ISON – The Electrical Explanation
  • The Orion Nebula and it's neighbor M43, components of Orion's sword, in a stackof 50x0.6s frames blended with Adobe Photoshop.

    Orion Nebula – Bigger and Better
  • Beautiful Doe

    Beautiful Doe

  • Last of Lovejoy, Jupiter, and more space stuff…
  • Coyotes and the Groundlings (8 of 15)

    Coyotes vs. the Groundlings
  • Deer at Cottonwood Creek (4 of 6)

    Deer at Cottonwood Creek
  • Comet Lovejoy, or C/2013 R1

    Comet Lovejoy – C/2013 R1
  • High Definition Moon

    A Perfect Half (High Definition)
  • Orion's Sword

    Constellation Orion on October 1st
  • Milky Way Trial #1

    Still Here, and coming store site…
  • Cascading Creek Featured

    A Cascading Creek
  • Indian Peaks over Long Lake (1 of 2)

    Indian Peaks over Long Lake
  • Pupating Lady Bugs (2 of 4)

    Pupating Ladybugs
  • Denizens of the Forest Floor - Part 1 - Horiz (1 of 13)

    Denizens of the Forest Floor
  • Summer Cormorants (2 of 4)

    Cormorants!
  • Piper Portraits (1 of 4)

    Piper Portraits
  • Cedar Waxwings (1 of 3)

    Cedar Waxwings
  • Daddys Little Ward

    Daddy’s Little Ward
  • Night Heron at Night

    Night Heron at Night
  • Buzzed by a Fuzzy Creature (3 of 4)

    Buzzed by a Fuzzy Creature
  • Beautiful Does (4 of 5)

    Beautiful Does
  • Big Buck

    Big Buck
  • Piper on the Pondweed (2 of 13)

    Piper on the Pondweed
  • Early Gibbous Moonset

    Early Gibbous Moonset
  • Spotted Sandpiper On the Defensive (3 of 5)

    On the Defensive
  • Sunset at Rock Lake (3 of 4)

    Sunset at Rock Lake
  • Fourth of July Birds (2 of 7)

    Mountain Songbirds
  • Snowy Egret Treetops (5 of 6)

    Snowy Egret’s Treetops
  • Snowy Egrets at Cottonwood Creek (2 of 8)

    Snowy Egrets at Cottonwood Creek
  • Great Blue Herons at Sunset (2 of 4)

    Great Blue Herons at Sunset (and the Story of the Storm)
  • Mama's Ducklings (1 of 1)

    Mama’s Ducklings
  • Young Bucks (1 of 6)

    Young Bucks of Cherry Creek
  • Lavender Irises (1 of 4)

    Violet Iris
  • Floral Closeups with the 600

    Floral Closeups with a 600mm
  • Prancer the Yearling Buck (1 of 8)

    Prancer the Yearling Buck
  • First Shot with the 600

    First Shot with the 600
  • Summer Bucks at Cherry Creek (1 of 5)

    Bucks Among the Greens
  • Yearling

    Yearling
  • Another Treetop Landing (2 of 7)

    Great Egret Landing
  • Juvenile Gulls on a Smokey Day (3 of 7)

    Haggard Juvi Gulls on a Smokey Day
  • A beautiful doe munches on some tasty greens at Cherry Creek State Park. Early summer, 2013.

    Summer Doe
  • Lazy Western Grebes (2 of 8)

    Lazy Grebes
  • Great Egret in Flight (1 of 5)

    Great Egret in Flight
  • Stretching Western Grebe (2 of 6)

    Stretching Grebe
  • Perched Atop a Giant

    Perched Atop a Giant
  • Great Egret Treetop Landing (1 of 11)

    Great Egret Treetop Landing
  • Dozing Western Grebe

    Dozing Western Grebe
  • Great Egret Treetop Landing (11 of 11)

    Great Egret
  • Sneaky Semipalmated Plover (1 of 4)

    Sneaky Semipalmated Plover
  • Wilsons Phalarope (1 of 5)

    Wilson’s Phalarope
  • Marbled Godwits in Flight (3 of 6)

    Marbled Godwits in Flight
  • High Flyin Raptors (2 of 11)

    Raptors on the Wing
  • Little Lesser Yellowlegs-6

    Little Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Avocets with Attitude (3 of 6)

    Avocets with Attitude
  • Pelican Punk

    More Pelicans!
  • Least Sandpiper, the Smallest of them All (1 of 3)

    The Smallest of Them All
  • Will it be Willets (2 of 8)

    Will it be Willets?
  • Pelican Flyby (1 of 5)

    Pelican Flyby
  • Willet Head Shot

    Willet Head Shot
  • Bonaparte's Gull (1 of 3)

    Shorebirds Galore and Backyard Visitors
  • Avocet Chase (10 of 17)

    Chasing Avocet
  • Squabbling Avocets 1 (3 of 5)

    Fighting Avocets
  • Hudsonian Godwit Pair - Rare Bird for Colorado (2 of 5)

    Hudsonian Godwits – A Rare Visitor to Colorado
  • American White Pelican Fat Flight

    More Spring Birding at Cherry Creek
  • Wite-faced Ibis (3 of 4)

    A Hundred Ibis
  • American Avocets at the Sand Spit (5 of 6)

    Avocets at the Sand Spit
  • Avocets Among the Mists (1 of 5)

    Misty Morning Avocets
  • Cherry Creek Spring Ducks (6 of 6)

    Spring Ducks at Cottonwood Creek
  • American Coot in Blue Waters at Duck Lake

    American Coot at Duck Lake
  • Birds of Duck Lake (1 of 10)

    Birds of Duck Lake
  • Nesting Cormorants at Duck Lake (1 of 10)

    Nesting Cormorants at Duck Lake
  • Dryads Ghost

    Dryads Ghost
  • Landing

    Mobile and the Blog
  • A canopy of tiny, translucent fronds cover a bundle of new life.

    Dandelion
  • Thai Food Abstracts (1 of 6)

    Thai Food Abstracts
  • Winter Finches (5 of 8)

    Overwintering House Finches
  • Invasion of the Juncos (13 of 14)

    Invasion of the Juncos!
  • Wingtips to the Ice

    Wingtips to the Ice
  • Golden Eagle with Meal (1 of 3)

    Golden Eagle’s Meal
  • Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk (1 of 2)

    Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk
  • Winter Fauna at Cherry Creek (3 of 4)

    Deer and the Rut
  • Coyotes at Cherry Creek (1 of 8)

    Coyotes at Cherry Creek
  • Bald Eagle Launch (3 of 3)

    Bald Eagle Taking Flight
  • Melt

    Melt
  • Raven

    Raven
  • Bald Eagles in Flight (First Time) (1 of 3)

    Bald Eagles! My first photos!
  • Gulls on Ice (1 of 4)

    Ice Gull
  • Fractal Ice

    Fractal Ice
  • Geminid Meteor Shower 2012 (1 of 5)

    Geminid Meteor Shower 2012
  • The Energetic Chickadee (1 of 3)

    The Energetic Chickadee
  • Cottonwood Creek Fall Waterbirds (1 of 8)

    Cottonwood Creek – Fall Waterbirds
  • Winter Killdeer (7 of 7)

    Winter Killdeer
  • Red-tailed Hawk Flight

    Red-tailed Hawk in Flight
  • Winter Cattail

    Cattail, Milkweed, and Snowberries
  • Eurasian Collared Dove

    A Rare Dove
  • Scrub Jay with a Stolen Peanut!

    Who’s the peanut snatcher?!?
  • The Moon Supertelephoto (6 of 8)

    The Moon
  • Late Fall Songbirds (1 of 5)

    Late Fall Songbirds
  • Songbirds of the First Snow (4 of 6)

    Songbirds of the First Snow
  • Long Billed Dowitchers Fall Reflections (2 of 7)

    Long-billed Dowitchers: Fall Reflections
  • Long Billed Dowitcher

    Long-billed Dowitchers
  • Western Grebe With Catch

    Western Grebes Fishing
  • Gulls in Flight - Blue Sky Cherry Creek-2

    Gulls in Flight at Cherry Creek
  • Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron Wading
  • Snowy Egret Wading in Blue Waters

    Snowy Egret Wading
  • Stretching Juvenile Ring-billed Gull

    Stretching Juvi Ring-billed Gull
  • Dragonfly Gold

    Dragonflys
  • Sunset Egret

    Sunset Egret
  • American Kestrel

    Blue Sky Birdies
  • Great Blue Heron Landing (2 of 5)

    Great Blue Heron: Flight and Landing
  • Great Blue Heron's Meal (2 of 4)

    Great Blue Heron: Catch of the Day
  • Damselfly in Vibrant Green

    Damselflys
  • David and Goliath

    “David and Goliath”
  • The Cormorant Crew

    The Cormorant Crew
  • Great Blue Heron Flight

    Great Blue Heron Flight
  • Juvenile Bairds Sandpiper at Chatfield Wetlands (3 of 6)

    Chatfield Marsh Birds: Baird’s Sandpiper
  • Killdeer Rocks

    Chatfield Marsh Birds: Killdeer
  • Western Kingbird

    Western Kingbird
  • Snowy Egret Hunt

    Snowy Egret
  • Juniper

    Floral Macros
  • Butterfly

    Butterflies at Rocky Mountain Arsenal

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