The Nestor genus of parrots includes two extant species from New Zealand and two extinct species from Norfolk Island, Australia and Chatham Island, New Zealand.KEA: King of the MountainThe Kea is the world's only mountain parrot, living in the NZ Alp...
New Zealand is home to two species of type of bird known as rails: the Pukeko and Takahē . They may look very similar, and it would be tempting to think that are closely related, but that is not the case. Pukeko are not indigenous to New Zealand, but...
When my grand uncle died many years ago, he left me a treasure trove of carefully organized Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides that he shot between about 1939 and 1985. During the last eight years or so, I have been making hi-res scans of his slides. ...
M31 - BB with Ha NB.jpgThe "problem" with imaging galaxies is that a lot of them occupy only small areas of the sky. They may be HUGE objects, but for many of them, their distance makes their apparent size in the night sky very small. That, however,...
While hiking at Chesterfield Gorge in western Massachusetts, I hiked into the bottom of the gorge and started photographing an obvious composition, the river flowing along the gorge. As I looked around I spotted this not so obvious composition. I t...
While visiting Quabbin Reservoir in western Massachusetts, I was looking for compositions and spotted this backlit shot of yellow maple leaves. Shot with an R5 and RF 24-104 f4 lens.
