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  • The Eagle and The Omega

  • Dark and Dusty – Snake Nebula

  • Lunar Eclipse Totality Triad

  • Nebula of the Core: Lagoon and Trifid

  • The Blue Horsehead

  • The Whirlpool Galaxy – M51

  • Andromeda Galaxy – M31, M32 & M110
  • Cuddle Puddle

    Cuddle Puddle!

  • Redwing Blackbird

  • Parenthood

  • Yellowlegs

  • Spring Beauties and the Silent Sunset

  • Wing

  • Goslings!

  • Birds in Flight

  • The Stellar Rose

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

    North Fork of the South Platte River

  • More Midwinter Birds

  • Midwinter Birds

  • It’s Comet Time Again! Lovejoy, C/2014 Q2

  • Horsehead and Flame Revisited – Ten Months Later, the Journey and the Breakthrough

  • Orion’s Sword – Wide Field Dust and Reflections

  • The Blue Jay and the Cornucopia of Peanuts

  • Great Blue Heron

  • A Cat’Field Full of Blackbirds

  • Partial Solar Eclipse

  • A Purple Sky Moon

  • Juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk

  • Maple & Boke

  • Flight of the Sunset Geese

  • Orion’s Sword – Dust and Reflections

  • Moon Closeups – Mare Ibrium Mountains

  • Floral & Insect Macros

  • The Pleiades – Eight Months Later

  • Spotted Sandpipers – Non-breeding

  • Andromeda Galaxy

  • Picnic Grove

  • The Cygnus Molecular Clouds

  • Forest Boke

  • Rose

  • Ultra High Res Moon – Waning Gibbous

  • Various Wildlife

  • Peonie

  • Finchfest!

  • Evergreen

  • Alien Landscapes

  • Night Heron’s Fishing Night

  • Cute Little Prairie Dog

  • Moon – Mars Conjunction

  • Nuthatch

  • Thunderstorm

  • Curious Deer

  • Snowy Egret Portrait

  • Lightning Storm
  • North America Nebula (NGC 7000)

    North America Nebula (NGC 7000)

  • Evening Teal

  • Western Meadowlark

  • Backyard Florals

  • A Flock of Ibis

  • Birding Season Arrives!

  • Dove Love

  • 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

  • The Rosette Nebula

  • First Try at Galaxies
  • Orion Nebula and Running Man

    Orion and Running Man – Conquered at Last!

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

    The Pleiades – Reimaged and Remastered

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

    Horse Head and Flame Nebulas – First Try

  • The Pleiades, Improved

  • First Light & The Pleiades

  • Eye Into the Macro World

  • Some History: Geology and Photography

  • The Prairie Dogs of “Dog Town”

  • Howling at the Moon

  • Invasion of the Bushtits!

  • Rough-Legged Hawk

  • New Years Milky Way and the Orion Axis of Nebula

  • Little Christmas Eve Finch

  • Old One-eye and his Yearlings

  • Fluffy Little Kestrel

  • Christmas Collaboration

  • A Gull of a Day

  • Sunset Silhouettes

  • Flight of the Gulls

  • Comet ISON – The Electrical Explanation

  • Orion Nebula – Bigger and Better

  • Beautiful Doe

  • Last of Lovejoy, Jupiter, and more space stuff…

  • Coyotes vs. the Groundlings

  • Deer at Cottonwood Creek

  • Comet Lovejoy – C/2013 R1

  • A Perfect Half (High Definition)

  • Constellation Orion on October 1st

  • Still Here, and coming store site…

  • A Cascading Creek

  • Indian Peaks over Long Lake

  • Pupating Ladybugs

  • Denizens of the Forest Floor

  • Cormorants!

  • Piper Portraits

  • Cedar Waxwings

  • Daddy’s Little Ward
  • Night Heron at Night

    Night Heron at Night

  • Buzzed by a Fuzzy Creature

  • Beautiful Does
  • Big Buck

    Big Buck

  • Piper on the Pondweed

  • Early Gibbous Moonset

  • On the Defensive

  • Sunset at Rock Lake

  • Mountain Songbirds

  • Snowy Egret’s Treetops

  • Snowy Egrets at Cottonwood Creek

  • Great Blue Herons at Sunset (and the Story of the Storm)

  • Mama’s Ducklings

  • Young Bucks of Cherry Creek

  • Violet Iris

  • Floral Closeups with a 600mm

  • Prancer the Yearling Buck

  • First Shot with the 600

  • Bucks Among the Greens

  • Yearling

  • Great Egret Landing

  • Haggard Juvi Gulls on a Smokey Day

  • Summer Doe

  • Lazy Grebes

  • Great Egret in Flight

  • Stretching Grebe

  • Perched Atop a Giant

  • Great Egret Treetop Landing

  • Dozing Western Grebe

  • Great Egret

  • Sneaky Semipalmated Plover

  • Wilson’s Phalarope

  • Marbled Godwits in Flight

  • Raptors on the Wing

  • Little Lesser Yellowlegs

  • Avocets with Attitude
  • Pelican Punk

    More Pelicans!

  • The Smallest of Them All

  • Will it be Willets?

  • Pelican Flyby

  • Willet Head Shot

  • Shorebirds Galore and Backyard Visitors

  • Chasing Avocet

  • Fighting Avocets

  • Hudsonian Godwits – A Rare Visitor to Colorado

  • More Spring Birding at Cherry Creek

  • A Hundred Ibis

  • Avocets at the Sand Spit

  • Misty Morning Avocets

  • Spring Ducks at Cottonwood Creek

  • American Coot at Duck Lake

  • Birds of Duck Lake

  • Nesting Cormorants at Duck Lake

  • Dryads Ghost

  • Mobile and the Blog

  • Dandelion

  • Thai Food Abstracts

  • Overwintering House Finches

  • Invasion of the Juncos!

  • Wingtips to the Ice

  • Golden Eagle’s Meal

  • Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk

  • Deer and the Rut

  • Coyotes at Cherry Creek

  • Bald Eagle Taking Flight

  • Melt

  • Raven

  • Bald Eagles! My first photos!

  • Ice Gull

  • Fractal Ice

  • Geminid Meteor Shower 2012

  • The Energetic Chickadee

  • Cottonwood Creek – Fall Waterbirds

  • Winter Killdeer

  • Red-tailed Hawk in Flight

  • Cattail, Milkweed, and Snowberries

  • A Rare Dove

  • Who’s the peanut snatcher?!?

  • The Moon

  • Late Fall Songbirds

  • Songbirds of the First Snow

  • Long-billed Dowitchers: Fall Reflections

  • Long-billed Dowitchers

  • Western Grebes Fishing

  • Gulls in Flight at Cherry Creek

  • Great Blue Heron Wading

  • Snowy Egret Wading

  • Stretching Juvi Ring-billed Gull

  • Dragonflys

  • Sunset Egret

  • Blue Sky Birdies

  • Great Blue Heron: Flight and Landing

  • Great Blue Heron: Catch of the Day

  • Damselflys

  • “David and Goliath”

  • The Cormorant Crew

  • Great Blue Heron Flight

  • Chatfield Marsh Birds: Baird’s Sandpiper

  • Chatfield Marsh Birds: Killdeer

  • Western Kingbird

  • Snowy Egret

  • Floral Macros

  • Butterflies at Rocky Mountain Arsenal

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