Field Notes

Stories about being outside, making photographs, and the process behind sharing a selected image. Exact locations are intentionally left out.

Saturn with its rings visible against the night sky

Seeing Saturn with birding equipment

Saturn's rings, photographed from the backyard with birding equipment, after a night of preparation, careful focus, and patience.

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Airplane passing in front of the moon near the zenith

A plane crossing the moon

A rare frame from an ordinary evening of plane watching and backyard photography.

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Painted Turtle resting at the edge of the water

The Painted Turtle, in between moments

Wildlife photography often starts with waiting, and the photograph arrives in the small space between movement and stillness.

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