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I am excited to announce that a print of my image, "First Sunset" has been selected as "Best in Photography" at the Broome County Arts Council (BCAC) annual juried, members ...
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Separate encounters with three different raptors species woven together through a harrowing game of hide and seek. Found the Snowy During recent years, in the northeastern United States, winters have ...
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I often marvel about how, when we freeze time with a camera we are able to capture a single moment, a mere fraction of a second. In that moment, we ...
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I hope this story finds you safe, healthy and in contact with loved ones as we navigate through this uncertainty in our daily lives. Be safe! Two Hens In 2019, ...
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“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” ― John Burroughs January 2019 In January 2019 I embarked on an unexpected ...
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"The eerie calls of Common Loons echo across clear lakes of the northern wilderness." - Cornell, All About Birds Images, video and text by Teri Franzen, copyright 2019 and 2020 ...
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"Without death there can be no life" - John Burroughs On the shore of Long Island, common terns viciously attack their own chicks, leaving them limp and struggling. In Africa, ...
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I am honored to have two pieces currently on display at the Artisan Gallery in Binghamton, NY. Throughout the month of July, "Katrina's Light" and "Masai Giraffes of Tarangire" have ...
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Today's accessibility to stream entire seasons of a show makes it easier than ever to become hooked on a series and watch from start to finish. We fall in love ...
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Local friends, I hope you will come seem me as you check out the Broome Art Trail this weekend. I will be showing my work at TechWorks! in Binghamton along ...
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I've been witness to many powerfully inspiring moments since I first turned my camera toward nature and wildlife. I've seen a hen wood duck raising a hooded merganser as her ...
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Local friends, save the date! I am honored to have been invited to speak to the Susquehanna Valley Audubon Society next month about a topic very dear to me, Brick ...
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Autumn 2013, 2014 and 2015, Wyoming, "I think I see something! No, wait, it's just a rock." Five minutes later, "...over there, something white! No, that's a rock too." My ...
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It was late summer in 2014 when I got my first good look at a wood duck. That was also the day that I held one in my hands, briefly ...
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It was wild, untamed music and it echoed from the hillsides and filled the valleys. It sent a queer shivering feeling along my spine. It was not a feeling of ...
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I am very honored that my image, Katrina's Light, was selected among the top 250 highly commended photos in the 2018 Share the View International Photo Contest! This photo is ...
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If anxieties were appendages, the forest floor would be buried in the corporeal masses of those shed by visitors, the trails impassable. This is what flitted through my thoughts as ...
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Nature is full of wonders, and I never know what adventures await or what magic I will witness as I wake groggily at dawn and make my way to the ...
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From the archives. In 2015 when I was still figuring things out I very stubbornly continued to shoot in JPG. This is one bird with a lot of extremes from ...
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The shores of Long Island, New York are bursting with new life right now. Black Skimmers are mating. Piping Plovers, Least and Common Terns and American Oystercatchers are nesting or ...
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In September 2011 a devastating flood wreaked havoc on the town of Owego, NY. During those few days a concerned citizen found a young snapping turtle, since named Chomper, who ...
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For this Earth Day 2018 I give you scenes from my favorite nature experience of my recent trip to Florida. Take care of this precious planet, it's the only one ...
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I spent a week in March at a Women Wildlife Filmmakers Workshop at Cocobolo Nature Reserve in Panama. Co-lead by two amazing conservation filmmakers Morgan Heim and Jenny Nichols, the ...
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During the years of 2014-2015, plus a wee bit in 2016 and 2017, I spent countless hours setting up makeshift blinds at Brick Pond Wetland Preserve in the hopes of ...
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When I started planning my April 2017 trip to California I knew Point Reyes would be on the itinerary. Situated on a peninsula along the coast, Point Reyes National Seashore ...
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While in Ndutu we encountered an infant Elephant that was just learning to use its trunk. This is her story. Recommend viewing in high definition and full screen. Thank you ...
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This week I spent a little time stringing together video from my March trip to Florida. If you have about five minutes, please check it out. Be sure to watch ...
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Since I began photographing Wood Ducks in 2014 I have dreamed of a shot with a drake in nuptial plumage surrounded by ice or snow. Wood Ducks typically migrate south ...
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Life in the African bush is hard for prey animals and apex predators alike. Ungulates such as Zebras, Gazelles and Wildebeest are constantly wary, keeping watch to ensure they don’t ...
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"Find a fall, or cascade, or rushing rapid, anywhere upon a clear stream, and there you will surely find its complementary Ouzel, flitting about in the spray, diving in foaming ...
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In November 2015 I spent two weeks in Milan, Italy working in a customer integration lab. When I found myself with two days off I did what I’m certain anyone ...
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The year 2016 was full of wildlife adventures and unexpected surprises. In 2016 I spent time photographing local ducks from a blind in bitter cold, traveled to Florida twice, photographed ...
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Listening to the harsh wind whipping outside I was grateful to be working on a project indoors. As I sat cozy and warm by the fireplace I thought there was ...
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"A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it." - Henry David Thoreau South Marble Island is a remote limestone outcrop within Glacier Bay, Alaska that has ...
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“What an ornament to a river to see that glowing gem floating in contact with its waters!” - Henry David Thoreau, writing about the drake Wood Duck Yesterday was World ...
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In the golden light of early morning, this mated Anhinga pair is reinforcing their nest. The male has just returned from pulling twigs from a nearby tree. He has delivered ...
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Just a week ago the pond was mostly frozen. But it has been a very warm week and I knew that by now it would be wide open. I pulled ...
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Many years ago, long before I discovered birds and photography, I spent an afternoon on the beach of Sanibel Island, Florida.  I remember looking for shells but I honestly don't ...
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My adventure started the day that I held a four week old Wood Duck in my hands.  When I arrived at Brick Pond in Owego, NY that day in mid-August ...
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