- Red-Tailed Hawk endures winter storm
- Bufflehead
- Adult Barn Swallow feeding leucistic juvenile
Croyle Township, Cambria County, PA, USA - Adult Barn Swallow feeding leucistic juvenile
Croyle Township, Cambria County, PA, USA - Leucistic Juvenile Barn Swallow
Croyle Township, Cambria County, PA, USA By using my car as a blind, I was able to approach much more closely than I could on foot earlier. - Gray Hairstreak on butterfly weed
- False "face" on rear of Gray Hairstreak butterfly
- Red-winged Blackbird on Joe Pye Weed
- Black-eyed Susans
- Bobolink & Red-winged Blackbird
- ISS Lunar Transit
Composite of 13 exposures showing a lunar transit of the International Space Station. Photographed from Croyle Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA at 2016-05-28 08:45:48 UT. The duration of the transit was 1.3 seconds. The distance to the ISS was approximately 715 km and its angular size was about 39 arcsec. Planning for the transit was done using CalSky.com. Pentax K-5 II, Pentax DA* 300mm f/4, Tamron 1.4x teleconverter. Exposures were 1/2000 second with the lens set to f/4 (for an f/5.6 effective aperture with the teleconverter). - Tears
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia - Right Four Times a Day
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia - ISS transiting the sun
Composite of 4 exposures showing a solar transit of the International Space Station. Photographed from Gallitzin State Forest, Pennsylvania, USA at 2015-08-29 14:12:42 UT. The duration of the transit was 0.8 seconds. The distance to the ISS was approximately 616 km and its angular size was about 45 arcsec. Planning for the transit was done using CalSky.com. Pentax K-5 II, Pentax DA* 300mm f/4, Tamron 1.4x teleconverter, ND 1000x filter. Exposures were 1/6000 second with the lens set to f/8 (for an f/11 effective aperture with the teleconverter). - Moon, Venus, and Mars
I took this out my open bedroom window, so the seeing was trash. - Common Raven, perched
Banff National Park, Alberta - Common Raven
Mosquito Creek, Banff National Park, Alberta My thanks to the subject for posing in front of white seamless. - Black bear
Banff National Park, Alberta - Black bear with cub
Banff National Park, Alberta - Bald Eagle (4th year)
We had an appropriate July 4 visitor at our place.