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The Patriotic Rose Bud . This is one of those spontaneous photographs that just happen to come out in a neat fashion. Red White and Blue.

I ran across this lizard as he/she was sitting on top of a fence post sunning itself. At first this lizard ran!! But ironically enough stopped, and just looked at me for the longest time!

Sparrow Birds Working For Their Meal . I admit, it is ridiculous the money we spend on the wildlife here. The gardens and such to attract the wildlife so I can photograph them. I justify this expense as entertainment, for really Guy and I can sit for hours just talking and watching all the wildlife we work so hard to attract to our place. We stopped in at the Madras Livestock Auction where they opened up a feed store. We need bird seed in big time bulk. The sparrows are the main birds we feed here, but without the sparrows the other birds would not be attracted. As soon as we walked into the feed store we saw this seedblock. We thought this would slow down the birds a little, making them work for their meal. It has, and offered me a great photography opportunity! We are more than happy to try out such products if, and I mean if, it is cost affective!

Just a fun photograph

As we were down in the canyon (Lake Billy Chinook), I just happened to look up and found these mule deer spying on us. When visitors leave the wildlife do not hide like they do when the visitors are here. They are more apt to show themselves. They were funny for they were using the canyon rocks to hide behind! I captured the two who came out from the rocks to show themselves.

I observe things. I caught one of the barn cats running off from me and the horses yesterday. The domestic cat , like other cat species, is very graceful. Very agile. I feel only in still photography can one really see just how graceful and agile they truly are!!

The Dipper is a great bird to find around unpolluted waters. I happened to catch this one along the Metolius River. When these dippers blink their eyes it looks funky with the white feathers, turns their eyes white! These dippers have a extra eye lid to allow them to see underwater. Now that would be rather cool to do! It is said they have scales that close there nose when they go underwater where they get their food at. These are funny to watch, this one just stood there and really did not mind the intrusion. Fact is I walked away before this dipper went away. This dipper new it was safe.

Just a few hours ago Guy took me around the block. Oh probably ten miles or so?? It was nice to get out of the house! I do not know about other places, but here this species of falcon are not real..... they take off as soon as attention is directed at them. In other words I have tried to get some shots of the sparrow hawk and finally I did. This American Kestrel is the smallest falcon in North America. Used in falconry so they must be pretty smart! I think they are pretty little birds! Eating grasshoppers, other small birds, and rodents so they are good to have around. Oh I believe they eat the lizards we have here too. It looks like we are in for more bad weather here in central oregon but the wildlife need to eat and I was happy we seen what we did on our short drive.

The border Canary is a common canary found in many homes. I am pleased to now own a pair of these canaries, or do they own me?? Their song is just delightful!! Here are photographs of the male, which is brighter yellow, and his female. They both sing their little hearts out!!

I like birds, always have. You will find I have many shots of birds of all kinds. This golden eagle was a character. First sighting of a golden eagle in the canyon for the both of us here. I noticed the tree he was perched in just did not look right. We were coming up out of the canyon where we were watching the Bald Eagles fish. This golden eagle did come out of no where to check us and the dogs out. Of course my camera was set up for the bald eagles..... This golden eagle really did startle us! This is the first photograph I got of him,

We went down to a boat ramp parking area, which was empty due to the snow and just the weather conditions I am sure. Started hiking down to the cold canyon water in the snow. The dogs and I were first on the little, slippery, snow covered path. I heard the loudest splash and first thing I thought was the dogs jumped in the icy water! Why would they? They are dogs! More......

Civil engineering student shows a variety of structures out of pennies - just pennies - held together by nothing more than gravity and friction, built by himself and others who sent in their pictures.

A group of photos taken in two places that Chicagoans find convenient, when they escape from the winter: largish domed gardens, a little big to just be called "greenhouses"; these places have full grown trees living inside of them. Emphasis, chosen by those submitting, seems to have been on shots taken very close in - "macros".

Just a photo. The style of this church in Wisconsin is a very old one, going back to Scandinavia (esp. Norway), possibly having been based on the pre-Christian architecture of the region, given the antiquity of some of the remaining stavkirchen. This one, however, was built the inhabitants of an island in Lake Michigan that saw a large influx of immigrants from Norway, who would seem to have brought their culture with. It is said to be a popular site for weddings.

The hour is at hand fellow photogs. Photo Art Gallery is uber proud to announce  the Magic Hour Competition is on NOW! Just what is The Magic Hour? Find out at http://www.photoartgallery.com/competition

Great looking comp guys and an awesome theme too! I want to win that Lensbaby baby!

Ferrari 612 Scaglietti's power just behind the Enzo, but it has other feature which mainly lets this car become the friendliest car Ferrari has to offer, Full Car Review here.

The Best Places Fall Foliage Scenery. The time for Fall Foliage is just around the corner and leaf peepers will be out everywhere looking for the brilliant colors of Autumn. ForestWander Nature Photography captures this time of year in amazing detail and color.

I did not know it was going to pour door rain on me! BUT seeing this is when my gelding loves to play...... His white is really white when he is not playing in the mud! Our mare is not as thrilled when it rains , but my gelding gets her going too. I do not make it a habit to play with my horses, they are bigger than me and accidents happen. I stand off to the side as they play. Rule is no acting up when I am standing around them. This is mostly my gelding for he is just a card when it is cool, wet and rainy.

Nature can be not so nice. Animals have to eat, this is just the way it is. Birds of prey are a favorite of mine to capture with my camera. I like to get them hunting and when I get a chance, to get them eating. I chose only ten photographs to show, from when I first seen this red tailed hawk eating, to when he flew off. It was not easy to pick out only ten photographs!! He/she even gave me the evil eye a time or two! When Guy asked me if I wanted to go somewhere I was up and getting ready!

I pay a lot of attention to Ravens. Some of my best photographs came to be because of the ravens. Ravens are really just a big crow. They are a very intelligent bird, which I guess some can argue with. They work as a team. As a family unit and are very bold creature. More than one raven is called "An unkindness of ravens", I can see why because wow can they drive off the biggest of creatures! There are ten species of the Raven with two more that are said to be extinct. The Magpie appears to be tolerated by the Raven, though they too are finally ran off by the bigger Raven. The Magpie we have here are very smart birds, though I really do not "listen" to them as I do the Raven. After seeing the all the Ravens in a small clearing it did not take Guy long to stop the truck and off I went into the brush. Guy seen a little of what the Ravens were doing, this was running off the eagles. There were two eagles. One was a big Golden Eagle, the other was a young smaller Bald Eagle. Many of these two species of eagles are showing up together these days. I have not noticed this in years past, but this year WOW has this been obvious! The Golden Eagle standing on the prey is the first thing we noticed after the Ravens. The prey I could not identify. Did I want to identify it, not really!! It was white and it appeared to have died some time ago. One thing people do not understand about Eagles, the Golden Eagle and the Bald Eagle is, they will take a meal whether they themselves hunted it down, or if it died by some other means. Eagles will do their best to steal prey as well. The species of eagles are opportunists. They can be scavengers. The Raven were doing the best they could to run off the Eagles, but the Golden Eagle was having no part of being ran off by Ravens! The young Bald Eagle was trying to grab some of the meal when I was getting close, but took off up into a tree to watch. These are the photographs of this event.