Nature Protection Metal Print

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I have always been amazed at the sense of protection portrayed by a Red-winged Black bird. I have seen a group of them attack a hawk and have been attacked by them on a golf course when one of us got too close to the water hazard! Here a Great Blue Heron moved to the other side of the pond as I approached. It didn't take long for me to realize he had landed close to a Red-winged Black bird nest in the cattails. Here is only one of several passes this Red-winged Blackbird made at the Great Blue Heron. As I shot this at 1/2000 of a second, and the two combatants came out blurry, you can tell they were moving at pretty good speed.

I grew up on an Iowa farm and moved to the city to pursue an IT career, only then it was called Data Processing. I can still remember taking a third grade class picture with my dad’s box camera; it took 120 film. Digital photography has allowed me to take advantage of my career and the passion for capturing a moment. While it takes great talent to paint or sketch a picture, I have always been a fan of photography. Photography has allowed me to see my great great grandfather, my dad in uniform with his unit in WWII, etc. Photography has also taken me to all the continents of the world, to the highest and lowest places on Earth and even below the seas. What a shame there isn’t a photo of the Parthenon after its completion. A...