Sandhill Cranes
Sandhills’ Mandarin Stroll
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Sandhills Bless a Mandarin Sky
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Sandhills Bless a Pink Sky
Sandhills Bless a Pink SkyPhoto Credits: Sandhills Bless a Pink Sky, Susan J. Preston, Bosque del...
Sandhill Family Take-Off
You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them…
Expressive Sandhill Crane
A sandhill crane joyfully stretches her wings in the early morning light of the Bosque del Apache…
Look for the Patterns
I love how this flock of sandhill cranes reminds me of notes in musical score – like a feathered arpeggio…
Centered in the Swirl
Maybe it’s time to choose YOU…
The Courage to Love
A pair of sandhill cranes take off together, flying over a field of dried out sunflowers in the Bosque del Apache
Flying Together
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Walking on Water
You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform…
Sandhill Calligraphers
It’s easy to read what they write across the sky if you look closely enough. Hope is what they’re offering us…
Float in the Air
Still, it’s an overwhelming experience. Being able to float in the air…
Lone Sandhill Flies Into the Night
When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone…
Something that looks foolish
The right answer always hides behind something that looks wrong, something that looks foolish…
Visual Cadence
Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is…
Long Exposures and Longing to Be True to Oneself
To reveal oneself–to be true to oneself– requires more time and more risk than the span of 1/1000 of a second…
We Have Been Wrong and We Can Do Better
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on the even flimsier…”
Watching the Sandhill Cranes
A gorgeous poem about sandhills by William Stafford…
Flying Each Other Home
Rest in peace Ram Dass
Go on anyway
Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not…
Praying for us to open our eyes
“The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped…”
You miss the shots you don’t take
Yay! This shot won an award. But oddly enough, what began as a meditation on success turned into a contemplation on the true nature of failure.
When Women Were Birds
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing…
Marveling at the Extinction of Organic Beings
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear… – Charles Darwin
The Secret Sky
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take…
Both Sides of Everything
Reclaiming ourselves usually means coming to recognize and accept that we have in us both sides of everything. We are capable of fear and…
Sandhill Cranes Flying Over the Bosque del Apache
“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison
Intensity Brings Focus
It is very important on the spiritual path that you are not dead serious. Being intense is one thing. Being tense is another. Intensity brings…
The Ancient Rhythms
“The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not…
Above the Angels
Don’t be on the side of the angels, it’s too lowering. – D.H. Lawrence
Sandhills Surveying La Garita
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. – C.S. Lewis
For everything that is YES!
Today is my birthday and if there is anything that I’ve learned in my 54 years on this planet it is YES! YES! YES, damnit, YES!
Puddle-Wonderful
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. – e. e. cummings
Landing Together
No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.– Mark Nepo
Flying, Running, Standing
You were born with wings
why prefer to crawl through life? – Rumi
Flying at Night
Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies like a snowflake falling on water. Below us…
How to Understand Everything Better
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
Battles Worth Fighting
o be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight…
Twilight Flight
After sunset, you can stand on the edge of one of the cornfields in the Bosque del Apache and witness thousands of sandhill cranes take flight in small family groups, soaring over….
Moving Through the World
My prayer for this generation is to wake up and recognize the presence and the vanishing of beauty. We aren’t as different as we are inclined to…
Golden Hour Party
Shooting straight into the afternoon sun poses significant challenges and this shot is no exception. I knew this series would be tough when…
Fields of Gold
You’ll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley
You’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we walk in fields of gold…
Sandhill Landing
One of the things I love about wildlife photography is the unpredictability inherent in every image. More often than not…