Osprey – IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern Osprey are apex predators and can be found along coastlines, rivers, and lakes This large raptor is built for fishing. So much so that it also goes by “fish hawk”, “sea hawk”, and “river hawk”. Not surprisingly, fish make up 99% of an osprey’s diet. These birds can be found across […]
Great Blue Heron – IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern Great blue herons have a wingspan of over six feet! This photo is of a great blue heron flying over Eagle Creek reservoir in Indiana. I was lucky enough to take this photo on a day that I had rented a super-telephoto lens. These types of […]
Collis P Huntington Park Cirrus clouds come in four varieties: intortus, radiatus, vertebratus, and duplicatus. The clouds in this photo are cirrus clouds. I took this photo while I was hiking around the lake at Collis P Huntington Park. This park spans 1,017 acres in Redding, Connecticut. It was donated to the state in 1973 […]
Rocky Mountain National Park Lookout Mountain provides a scenic view of the town of Golden, Colorado below There are very few views that are more spectacular than a landscape view of a mountain range. I took this photo the winter that I was living in Denver, Colorado. My soon-to-be wife was visiting, and we drove […]
National Weather Service The Long Trail was constructed from 1910 to 1930 by the Green Mountain Club. This photo was taken during a hike around Bourn Pond in Vermont. I had been hiking the loop trail for Bourn Pond and Stratton Pong that is accessed via the Long Trail. This hike is of particular note […]
White Mountain National Forest Mount Madison is the northernmost peak in the Presidential Range. This photograph was taken in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The cloud cover is right at the summit altitude, roughly 5000 feet. Mount Madison is the northernmost peak in the Presidential Range. Like other summits in the Presidential Range, Mount Madison has a […]
National Weather Service Clouds are described in three categories: cumuloform, stratoform, or cirroform. This month our gallery theme is “Clouds”. We will be exploring the different types of clouds that blanket earth. A man named Luke Howard was the first to publish a classification system for cloud types. He published this cloud classification system back in 1802! We still […]
National Weather Service Composing a photo can be tricky when you are contending with current, wind, and an environment that doesn’t allow you to use a tripod. For context, the foreground is the Atlantic Ocean and three seals. The land in the midground of this photo is Salisbury Beach State Park in Massachusetts. The clouds in the […]
Blue Neon Goby – IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern This species of coral looks alien, with the orange, red, and green coloration and texture. This species of coral looks alien, with the orange, red, and green coloration and texture. I’ve always enjoyed this species coral, which can grow to be quite large and live hundreds of […]
Saddled Blenny – IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern A sea rod is a soft coral that is affixed to the seafloor like a tree, with a central trunk. Corals can be separated into two categories, hard corals and soft corals. Hard corals generate a calcium carbonate skeleton and tend to be known as reef building corals. Soft […]