Friendliest sea otter ever!
This chonk was hauled out on the ice in Homer, Alaska for some grooming, rolling around, and napping. I did not boop the nose.
[#]seaotter #WildlifePhotography #wildlife #Alaska #Nature
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I think I found a gnome plant. Can anyone confirm whether this is Hemitomes congestum? If not then what is it?
Found in Olympic National Park, deep in a shady forest, around 2,000 ft elevation. Photo taken mid-July 2024.
[#]botany #plants #PNW #wildflowers
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Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa) perched in a snowy evergreen in Homer, Alaska. This is possibly the coolest bird I've ever gotten to photograph. I kept my distance to make sure to not interrupt its hunting. I was using a long telephoto lens, then cropped the photos for this illusion of being close. (More images on my website.) I could see that it successfully hunted a couple rodents, but it stayed on the ground in tall grass, so no photos of that.
[#]BirdPhotography #birds #nature #Alaska
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Happy Solstice!
Common Redpoll (Acanthis flammea) on a frosty perch in Homer, Alaska.
[#]BirdPhotography #Nature #solstice #Alaska #birds
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Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) photo from a previous winter. This cherry tree in the neighbor's yard died, and it was taken down this year. A lot of birds perched in there, so I miss having it right in front of my window. I hope the roving flock of masked fruit eaters will still perch nearby. They are fun to watch as they eat berries and share with each other. Relying on mostly fruit and berries all winter means they occasionally get drunk on rotting fruit!
[#]BirdPhotography #nature #PNW
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Rocky Mountain Elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) in Packwood, Washington. It's pretty easy to find this herd wandering around the outskirts of town, especially in December when the snow has covered their mountain habitat. I got this shot way back in 2015 when I was still new at learning my first Sony mirrorless camera. I was really honored this creature would allow me to be a weirdo hiding behind a tree while I figured out the settings!
[#]WildlifePhotography #PNW #Nature #wildlife
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Here's one of the things I love about Alaska: you can just walk out back behind the grocery store and find epic wildlife. I met this young female moose during a visit to Homer last March.
[Please note, this was shot with a long lens and cropped. Do not try phone selfies with wildlife.]
Sony a9m3. 100-400mm GM.
1/800 sec, f/5.6, ISO 800
[#]Alaska #WildlifePhotography #Nature #wildlife #moose
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November sunset on the Washington Coast, one of my favorite spots on Earth.
[#]PNW #Nature #ocean #seascape
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Fall colors in The Evergreen State. This is a scene along the Hall of Mosses Trail in Olympic National Park. Go outside and play!
[#]OlympicNationalPark #LichenSubscribe #Mosstodon #PNW #PublicLands
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Hey fellow Fine Art America users, I learned FAA only has 8 (eight!) employees. There seems to be very little marketing support for artists, and many features are outdated or not keeping up with other services available (like Google Merchant Center). Does anyone else feel limited by lack of service? What FAA features should I take advantage of to get more traffic and sales?
[#]MastoArt #BuyIntoArt #SupportArtists
Inside the Print-On-Demand Industry (Intro) https://medium.com/@broihier/inside-the-print-on-demand-industry-074e1db6ba86
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Welp, I posted something political the other day and suddenly gained several followers. Cool! I hope you all like nature photos, because that's really what I'm trying to do here. I just have occasional sudden outbursts of something that must be said or boosted as a pressure release valve for myself. Anyway, here's a Sally Lightfoot Crab from my trip to the Galápagos Islands last year. Cheers, people!
[#]NaturePhotography #animals #wildlife #AdventureTravel
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To celebrate Indigenous People's Day, I present this October sunset captured while I was standing outside a cabin we rented at Quileute Oceanside Resort located at First Beach on the Quileute Tribe's Reservation land at La Push, Washington. The Tribe has occupied and stewarded this land since time immemorial.
This location makes a great base camp for exploring the wilderness coast of Washington with many beaches and trailheads nearby.
[#]IndigenousPeoplesDay #PNW #Sunset #NaturePhotography
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Black Turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala) on a rocky shore of Puget Sound. In Washington, they are in non-breeding plumage while over-wintering on our marine shores.
Turnstones forage by using their short bill to turn over stones and other objects. To increase leverage, they crouch down to thrust heavier objects upward with more force. They sometimes use their entire body to “snowplow” headlong into a mass of kelp, exposing brine flies, fish eggs, and other food.
[#]birds #nature #PNW #ecology
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Sockeye salmon are swimming upstream in the Pacific Northwest and finding their places in the rivers for spawning. Here's an underwater shot of a male. They look so different in their freshwater spawning colors compared to their ocean colors. As a fish biologist, these are the colors of fall I get excited about, more than watching leaves change.
[#]salmon #fall #PNW #NaturePhotography
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Before the snowy season starts, Mt Rainier (aka Tahoma) is quite bare revealing cool geological forms between the glaciers. The textures on the surface of the glaciers are fascinating as well. Here's a close up from the Paradise trail. That peak is at 14,411 feet tall.
[#]MtRainier #MRNP #mountain #PNW #NaturePhotography #Washington
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The sunset angle lit up this rocky outcropping at Deer Park campground in Olympic National Park. I love fall camping when the crowds are gone.
[#]OlympicNationalPark #camping #hiking #PNW #Washington
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By the end of summer, Mount Rainier has lost most of its seasonal snow cover and has a lot of bare rock showing. Here is a view from the Skyline Trail loop. Note that wherever people walk, the wildflowers can't grown in the compacted soil. This is why it is important to stay on established trails and #LeaveNoTrace (not even footprints). This beautiful mountain is one of the reasons I love my home state of Washington so much!
[#]MountRainier #Tahoma #PNW #Washington
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Peaceful scene from the Logan Pass area of Glacier National Park. I got to go here for work while learning about stream ecology. Sometimes I can't believe people pay me to be a biologist. Follow your passions, people!
Shot hand-held at 1/8 sec and f/25 to get mountains in focus.
[#]NationalPark #PublicLands #waterfall #Montana #NaturePhotography
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Foggy morning at Mt Rainier National Park during peak wildflower season.
[#]SilentSunday #BloomScrolling #StayOnTrail #Wildflowers
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Lounge Lizards.
Four marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) are piled up on lava rock warming up in the sun after eating algae in the ocean at Fernandina Island in the Galápagos Islands.
[#]MarineIguana #Galapagos #NaturePhotography #wildlife #SonyAlpha
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