Category: nature

  • Finding fall color in maple leaves – Mount Auburn Cemetery

    Finding fall color in maple leaves – Mount Auburn Cemetery

      A few fall foliage favorites from our last few days in New England this past month. Happy to be back home in the Midwest for the wedding offseason, but already missing that crisp New England air.  ;)  Till next year, New Hampshire…

  • Bearded Tooth Mushroom in Vermont!

    While hiking in Vermont a few weeks ago, we came across this bearded tooth mushroom!  I’ve never seen one in person before, but I have eaten one, and they are delicious!  We didn’t harvest this one, as I don’t trust my mushroom identification skills… but I’m pretty sure this is definitely bearded tooth.  ;)

  • Macro Flower Photography – Floral Intimacy – Succulents

    Macro Flower Photography – Floral Intimacy – Succulents

    In continuing with my ongoing Floral Intimacy project, here are a few of my favorite macro photographs of pink and sea green succulents that I shot recently… I fell in love with succulents in a tiny apartment off Broadway over 10 years ago, and ever since then, I’ve been hooked. I love their pale, romantic…

  • Columbia, MO – Educational Freelance Photography – Students Reading in Trees

    Columbia, MO – Educational Freelance Photography – Students Reading in Trees

    If I could create my dream job, it might be a blend of educational photography and nature photography.  It would appear that if that job existed, the pictures from said imaginary job might look something like this. I walked by these students reading books in trees at Peace Park after having coffee with Julia Robinson…

  • Nature Photography – Little Brown Bat Photography in Columbia, MO

    Nature Photography – Little Brown Bat Photography in Columbia, MO

    So… the craziest thing happened to me today.  I was changing Jack’s diaper, and realized that the window was open (we had the air on, it was 95 today!).  I kept one hand on him, reached over and closed the window, and then went to close the curtain.  When the curtain slid across the rod,…