Garter Snake – IUCN Conservation Status: Varies This garter snake slithered across the trail right as I was about to set my foot down. I took this photo of a common garter snake while hiking back from Round Knob on the Knobstone Trail in southern Indiana. With 150’ of prominence, Round Knob is the third […]
Raccoon – IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern To our great luck, the raccoons had gone the same direction, and I was able to take this photo. This photo of a raccoon was taken with a Tamron 150-600mm lens while hiking in Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis. My brother and I were out taking photos with […]
Acadia National Park From the summit of Beech Mountain, you can see Echo Lake Located along Maine’s picturesque coastline, Mount Desert Island is the home of Acadia National Park. There are many trails to explore in this 49,075-acre park. There are also summits providing beautiful landscape views. The tallest mountain along the Atlantic Coast of the United States […]
Koa Tree – IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern The largest populations of koa are found on the islands of Hawai’i, Maui, and O’ahu. This photo is of one of my favorite trees in the world, the koa tree. It is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, and it can be found on Kaua’i where this photo […]
Saint Croix, Maine Saint Croix sits as far east as the Dominican Republic! As the name suggests, this photo is from a place with French roots. Saint Croix sits along Passamaquoddy Bay in northeast Maine, within eye shot of New Brunswick, Canada. This is a unique area geographically. It sits as far east as the Dominican Republic, and […]
BROWN-SHADED GRAY MOTH – IUCN Conservation Status: DATA INSUFFICIENT This isn’t the world’s most exciting photo Look closely, and you can see the brown-shaded gray moth in the center of this photo. It was almost perfectly blended in with the tree. I surprisingly took this photo with a super-telephoto lens that my brother and I […]
Kampinos National Park is a sister park to Indiana Dunes National Park I took this photo while on a work trip to Warsaw, Poland. I had been cooped up in a hotel in downtown Warsaw, and I decided that I wanted to go explore nature in this new country. I took a 45 minute Uber […]
At the top of Sleeping Giant, you are treated to a beautiful clifftop vista Just north of New Haven, Connecticut is a 739-foot peak called Mount Carmel, also known as “Sleeping Giant”. Why is it called Sleeping Giant? The large rock features resemble a giant human, when viewed from north or south (according to Native […]
This sitka spruce was in Redwood National Park I took this photo while standing in a field of sitka spruce. The trees towered above me. I was overwhelmed by the sheer vastness of the trees that I saw. Being from the Midwest, I was shocked by the immensity of the trees in the Redwood National […]
Monarch butterflies are known to travel thousands of miles each year! Like so many others, I have always found the monarch butterfly to be such a beautiful insect. Its lore is made all the more powerful by the amazing continental journey that the species takes each year. The eastern North American monarch population travels thousands […]