Category: Images
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Introducing “Trees In Their Twilight”
After mentioning it in a recent postblog, I just got around to including this image on our website. Nancy took this photograph on the same beach and almost the exact same location as Oak Tree Graveyard. The tall branch structure at the edge of the island that is about 1/3 in from the right of…
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How Nancy Got Her Painted Bunting Pictures
We’ve mentioned how skittish the Painted Buntings areblog; they make really lousy models. We have two photographs of them in our collection. Nancy took Painted Bunting Pair in late March of 2010. Then she captured Male Painted Bunting early the next month. To get those pictures, Nancy had to set up a bird blind…
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Check Out Our New Manatees Picture
We call this one “Bosom Buddies.” Nancy took this picture on a Sea Scout trip to Crystal River in 1995. Nancy used her Nikon F3 35mm SLR with a Nikor 20 mm lens in an Ikelite underwater housing for this image. She used Kodak slide film, and I later scanned a 4″x6″ print. The webpage…
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Another Dumb Question Husbands Shouldn’t Ask
When Nancy was risking her life for your possible viewing pleasure by balancing on top of our canoe on top of our van in Flamingo, Florida, trying to get shots of the Ospreys for “Osprey Family”,Link I asked a really stupid question. I was on the ground (the ladder to the van’s roof has a…
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Why You Haven’t Seen Any Painted Buntings
Imagine being a small bird (buntings, being medium-sized finches, are about five inches long) and sticking out like a sore thumb as the male does in our pictures Male Painted Bunting and Painted Bunting Pair with predators all about; you might be a little self-conscious. Painted Buntings tend to be secretive and skittish and can…