Tag: photography
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Photo Tips: Back Button Focus
If Chapter 1 was about listening to what the histogram was trying to tell me, this one is about listening to my fingers. For a long time I tried to shoot birds the “normal” way: half‑press the front shutter to focus, then press all the way to take the shot. Full story – link in…
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The Moment in Between IV
Recognition rarely arrives all at once. It comes in small, precise increments. There might be a shift in someone’s expression, a pause that wasn’t there before, the subtle recalibration of how another person stands in your presence. Full Story – Link in Bio
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The Moments in Between III
If you weren’t a graced adept with this gift at birth; you will need to work on it to employ it. Again, this is something that occurs on the subconscious level – an early warning system of sorts…if you let it. Full Story – Link in Bio
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The Moments in Between – The Subconscious
Your brain makes most decisions before you’re even aware of them — processing up to 11 million bits of information per second, your subconscious rapidly evaluates consequences using past experiences, emotional cues, and social context to guide your actions almost instantly. Full Story – Link in Bio
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The Moments in Between IV
Figuratively speaking, there’s a stillness that follows a crossing – the first threshold. It is not relief and it is not triumph. You haven’t done anything yet. It is the quiet recognition that something has shifted within. The world you step back into is the same shape it was before yet no longer fits the…
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The Moments in Between II
There’s something interesting that happens once you start paying attention to these in‑between moments. You begin to notice that they aren’t rare at all. They’re everywhere. Full Story – Link in Bio
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Kites
Kites are among the most elegant raptors in North America — light-bodied, long-winged, and built for effortless flight. Unlike the broad-winged Buteos or the high-speed falcons, kites specialize in soaring, gliding, and hovering, often in open habitats where their agility and precision shine. Full Story – Link in Bio
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FALCONS, CARACARAS
Falcons are the aerodynamic specialists of North America. Unlike the broad‑winged Buteos or the heavy‑bodied Eagles, falcons rely on speed, agility, and surgical strikes. Full Story – Link in Bio
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Accipiters (also-Hawks)
Group 2 brings together the raptors built for precision, the woodland ambushers and the one fish‑hunting outlier whose entire life is shaped by water. What unites them isn’t taxonomy so much as purpose: each of these birds is a specialist, evolved for a specific style of hunting that demands speed, accuracy, and control. Full Story…
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Buteos (Hawks)
Across North America, few silhouettes are as familiar, or as misunderstood, as the broad‑winged hawks known collectively as Buteos. They rise on thermals over farmland, circle above desert mesas, drift along forest edges, and perch quietly on roadside poles, watching the world with a patience that borders on ancient. Full Story – Link in Bio
