Photo ABCs

Nature's Best Photography

My photograph Eleven Turkey Vultures is on page 37 of the current issue of Nature's Best Photography, a beautiful magazine of curated nature photography.

This issue features a section containing Audubon Magazine's 2016 award winners, so my image was included.

The photograph was taken south of San Felipe, in Baja California, in 2014.

I believe that the image is also currently on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, along with the other winners, so if you're in the Washington DC area, let me know if you see it!

 

Audubon Magazine

I rarely enter photo contests now, for a variety of reasons.

However, when I saw the call for entries for the Audubon Magazine Photo Contest, I decided to enter a few of my favorite bird photos. The cause was a good one (entry fees support the Audubon Society), and there was a chance of exposure to a wider audience.

I was pleased to learn that my photo Eleven Turkey Vultures was chosen as an honorable mention, and was given a two-page spread near the front of the May-June 2016 issue of Audubon Magazine (though they did not keep the title).

The photograph was taken in late 2014, south of San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico.

The Audubon website devotes a page to the winning photos, and another to the 100 finalists. Check them out, many are spectacular photos! I especially like the Long-billed Thrasher and the Wood Duckling photos near the beginning of the 100 top entries.

Living Bird Magazine

My photograph of a Red-winged Blackbird appears on page 12 of the Winter 2015 issue of Living Bird Magazine, a publication of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

The photo was taken at the San Jacinto Wildlife Area.

 

Inked

It never ceases to amaze me the connections that can be made over the internet.

One of my photos has been used as a tattoo! With my permission, Mike Green, a home remodeller and mountain bike enthusiast from Atlanta, Georgia, used my image of a Red-tailed Hawk for a tattoo on his lower leg. For anatomical and design reasons he reversed this image, and now it appears as in the photo below. It's quite a likeness!

This is actually not the first time one of my images has been the basis for a tattoo. There is a gentleman who has over 66 tattoos of Route 66 on his body, who used one of my Route 66 pictures (of a giant ketchup bottle!) as the basis for one of his tattoos.

Tennis Benefit

One of my tennis photos was used as a promotional poster for a benefit tournament this weekend. The Semiahmoo Tennis Association, in Washington State, has a member with leukemia. This tournament was organized to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Washington. I hope it was a success!

Bird Watcher's Digest

Two of my photographs are in the September/October issue of Bird Watcher's Digest!

The cover article features one of my favorite birds, the northern flicker (a kind of woodpecker). Two of my pictures illustrate the article. One of them is shown here, on the left (click to enlarge):

That photo was taken earlier this year at Lake Hemet, in southern California, a very nice spot for birding.

The entire article can be read online here.

Waiting For An Audience

Most who know me know that I spent 100 days over five years photographing Route 66. 

I put together a Blurb book of my photographs two years ago to show my work to publishers. While I don't yet have a publisher (that's a long story!) my book is viewable online (and can be purchased, as well!).

Unlike every other Route 66 book, this one is organized not geographically, but by subject matter, (gas stations, diners, motels, etc.)

Please click here to take a virtual trip down Route 66, and let me know what you think!

Colors of The Past 

Published.

This photograph of a black-necked stilt appears in the Winter 2010 Living Bird Magazine, in an article on the Salton Sea.

This publication is beautifully produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

 

More birds here.

Published!

In the mail yesterday came Bird Watcher's Digest, with one of my pictures published (a small image on page 93), and a nice check!

I now receive the "image want list" for three bird magazines, and the first set of images I submitted was for the November/December Bird Watcher's Digest. They chose one image of a roadrunner. It's not what I consider a great shot (or even close to it!), but it suited their editorial need. 

This teaches me that despite how wonderful we think our images are, editors will choose what works best for their publication and the ideas they are trying to convey, and not necessarily choose what we consider our most artistic images.