Images

While visiting the Pacific coast, it’s always fun to spend time looking in all the little tidepools and crevasses in the rocks.  The seashore is always so full of life.  This little Striped Shore Crab isn’t much bigger than the diameter of a quarter.  It was comfortably hiding in a rock crack, but it would slowly come out and curiously pinch at my finger tip if I slowly presented it.

I photographed these fungi in different places around North America.  I like how delicate they are and how many small variations there are between the different types.

Eastern Kings Canyon, California

I was happy to see this male Western Tanager as it was migrating through the Northern California mountains.

I took this photograph off the coast of the Monterey peninsula. Three humpback whales just surfaced and are sinking back into the water after lunge feeding. In this case, the whales would come up as a group directly under a school of sardines. Each of the whales would take a large gulp of sardine filled water at the surface and then slowly squeeze the water through their baleen as they sank back into the water. At the time, there were also a lot of sea lions feeding in the area.  When the whales where about the come up, the sea lions would scatter in all directions to avoid the surfacing whales.

Cracks in the upper snowfield of a glacier in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska

This is a large male Stone Sheep in northern British Columbia that I photographed watching over a small group of other Stone Sheep.