Sandhill Crane In Flight Acrylic Print

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Trying to sneak up on a group of Sandhill Cranes in a field some of them spooked and took flight. As you drive the back roads along the Platte River it is their voice you hear before you can spot them in the fields. They are a loud bunch which helps to locate them since Nebraska is so flat. A great way to see this is to visit via http://rowe.audubon.org/birds/crane-cam and watch them come to the river in the evening.

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...