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Published!

Well, it finally happened - I actually got paid for one of my photographs. Granted, it was a request for one of my bad pictures to show off an example of how to reduct noise, but it's something, right? LOL

Seriously, here it is in Popular Photography magazine (scan courtesy of Mon@rch - thanks Tom!) in all of it's grainy glory. You can see the original version in my own noiseware test from a couple of years ago. Now I'm just waiting for my issue of the magazine to get here so I can see it 'live'.

Uploaded on May 17, 2008

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I don't know Bob, all the ladies around here seem pretty crabby.

For thousands of years, horseshoe crabs have been coming to the Delaware shore to lay their eggs, which in turn are a great food supply for numerous other species including the endangered red knot.

However, overharvesting of the crabs for their blood (which detects bacterial infections in vaccines) and as bait (because it's cheaper than buying it) has harmed not only the horseshoe populations but those other species (again, like the red knot) which rely on them. Luckily, this year NJ extended and strengthened a ban on horseshoe crab harvesting because of the ecological effects the harvest was having. Delaware has yet to follow suit, but there's still hope.

Uploaded on May 15, 2008

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Time's Zippin' By...

Laughing Gull
Larus atricilla

Sorry I haven't been around much - crazy at work plus two softball games this week. I'll try to catch up this weekend!

Uploaded on May 15, 2008

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Killdeer nest with 3 eggs

I helped a friend out yesterday with a bird survey he was involved in in southern Delaware (okay, I admit it - I was actually looking forward to it, so it wasn't really that big a favor). Toward the end of a rather rainy day, we headed up one last road to see what we could find. It wasn't until we were turning to leave that Joe and I saw the Killdeer doing her famous 'broken wing' dance.

It was then that Joe saw the nest smack in the middle of the road. Nervous that the eggs might get run over, we made (at my insistence) 2 small cairns about 5' feet on either side of the nest to provide notice to anyone driving to stay in the already made ruts in the road. And if the rangers come and see the piles, THEY'LL know to make whatever arrangements are necessary.

Still, I had to get a shot of these very cool eggs.

Read more about the day on my blog.

Uploaded on May 11, 2008

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Sunrise

Yellow Warbler - male
Dendroica petechia

These warblers make it hard to hear everyone else when they are singing, but they sure are pretty.

Uploaded on May 11, 2008

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