Almost 10 years ago, Short-eared Owls were the first birds I intentionally set out to photograph. It was a windy, rainy day, and I never saw one of the storied winter owls of the Pacific Northwest. So I kept searching. Eventually, I found them, but...
I am excited about my 2024 calendar! It features birds and wildlife, all from “near nature,” ie., western Washington state. It reaffirms my commitment to advocating that people don’t have to travel far and to exotic places to explore and connect to nature in an...
Barred owlets spend about seven days with one or both parents after they fledge. This is a look at such a seven-day period in the old-growth forest of Seward Park in Seattle, Washington. Note: Clicking on an image will open a full-sized viewer.
Imagine something meaningful to you and a person related to that thing who’s done something despicable. Then imagine naming some aspect of your meaningful something after that despicable person. Like naming an investment club after Bernie Madoff, film festival after Harvey Weinstein, or block-watch after...
Drew Lanham is a different bird. And he’s known that to be the case since, back in the day in Edgefield, South Carolina, he leapt off buildings and trees with cardboard wings, umbrellas and parachutes made of garbage bags. One time he broke his collarbone...
It once roosted in a thicket the size of a two-car garage, amidst wetlands and diked agricultural fields near Stanwood, Washington. The brush was so thick, the Long-Eared Owl must have felt unassailable. Long-barreled photographic devices proliferated and trained at it like arms in a...
