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Featured Photo of the Week: When I Say Jump!
In honor of this week's Bosque Festival of the Cranes. Sandhill Cranes are just so magnificent! I was lucky enough to catch this one just as it was leaping from the water on take off.
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Keywords: animals; wildlife; birds; crane; sandhill crane; North America; United States of America; New Mexico; Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge

Sparrow Hawk Photography Please join me for the Annual Gardner Crafts Faire, in beautiful Gardner, CO. Sat Dec 5, 10a til 3p at the Gardner Community Center.
Hora:Sábado, 5 de Dezembro de 2009 10:00
Local:Gardner, CO

Margaret Barber That's beautiful, Paul. If our Western Wood Peewee returns and builds another nest in our window, you're invited to photograph the chicks.

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Please come celebrate the return of the sandhill cranes (and snow geese as well as many other wildlife species) to the Bosque, their winter home.
In addition to the Art Tent (where I will be among 30 artists selling their work), there will be over 100 lectures, workshops, tours, hikes and hands-on activities planned, ra...nging from the popular Sandhill Crane Behavior to special photography tours to socializing with locals on the Plaza. 2009 promises to be a banner year for attendance so start making your plans now.
The Festival, itself, starts on Tues Nov 17 and runs thru Sun Nov 22. The Art Tent hours will be:
Fri Nov 20: 7:30a - 5p
Sat Nov 21: 7:30a - 5p
Sun Nov 22: 7:30a - 3p
For more info, check out the Festival's web site:
http://www.friendsofthebosque.org/crane
I hope you can make it.
Hora:Sexta-feira, 20 de Novembro de 2009 7:30
Local:Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge

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Featured Photo of the Week: The Thinker
Harbor seals of such wonderful creatures...so expressive and humorous. I'm always amazed at how dexterous they are with their hands!

Debbie Hayes Paul the photo's you take are breath taking, and inspiring. It shows how much you love what you're doing. Thank you for sharing your talent with the world. Or at least our corner or it.

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Featured Photo of the Week: Ice Castles
I just love early morning winter light...it sucks the color right out of everything and adds an ethereal feel to the remnants of this ice storm in Yosemite Valley on New Years Eve morning a few years ago. If you look closely, you can see Vernal Falls in the background.

Sandy Stuart How can you NOT be a fan !!!

Sparrow Hawk Photography Congrats to Joe P. for becoming the 200th "fan" of Sparrow Hawk Photography on FB!

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Featured Photo of the Week: I'm too sexy for my shirt
I almost thought I was going to have to get a "model release" from this handsome guy, he was just so content to pose for me :-) Sadly, this magnificent creature was almost hunted to extinction in the early 1900's for the male's breeding plume (seen here in the lower... middle of the shot)...to decorate society ladies' hats. I've never understood that, because the plume looks so much more beautiful on the bird!

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Featured Photo of the Week: Greet the morning
This bull elk just posed for me, in this perfect setting, illuminated by beautiful morning light.

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I've added some images from my recent week in Rocky Mountain National Park
in the What's New section of my web site...I hope you enjoy them.

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Please join me for a 1-day Wildlife Photography Workshop in beautiful Rocky Mountain National Park. I am teaching this workshop through the Denver Darkroom School of Photography in Denver (http://www.denverdarkroom.com).
We will meet at the Denver Darkroom at 8am on Sat Oct 10 for a short classroom session. In this se...ssion I will cover: 1) how to find, track and get close to wildlife; 2) various aspects of composing pleasing/exciting wildlife
photographs; 3) equipment choices (primarily lens selection and the effect it has on the photographs you take) and 4) wildlife photography ethics (i.e., how
to not disturb/stress animals while photographing them).
Following the short classroom session we will travel to Rocky Mountain National Park and photograph until sunset. We will be concentrating on elk during the
fall rut (mating season), although there will also be the possibility of bighorn sheep, moose, coyote, mule deer and eagles.
We will also be meeting again at the Denver Darkroom on Fri Oct 23 at 7pm for a wine and cheese social to review the photographs that everyone took during the workshop.
The cost for this 1-day workshop is only $150!
For more information or to register visit http://www.denverdarkroom.com, email
denverdarkroom@comcast.net, call the Denver Darkroom at 303-298-0164 or call me at 719-746-3029 (w), 719-989-1007 (cell).
Hora:Sábado, 10 de Outubro de 2009 10:00
Local:Rocky Mountain National Park

Sparrow Hawk Photography There are still a few slots open in the one-day Wildlife Photography Workshop that I will be teaching in Rocky Mountain National Park this coming Saturday, Oct 10. If you are interested in attending, please call the Denver Darkroom School of Photography at 303-298-0164 to register. Cost: $150.



















