Today’s photo adventure looked a little different. Instead of heading out with my camera in search of birds, squirrels, shorebirds, or the usual urban wildlife characters that make my heart light up, I volunteered to train as a Bee Creek cutthroat trout monitor. What is that, you may ask? Well, it means becoming part of a small local conservation effort where volunteers monitor an assigned creek by setting fish traps, returning the next day to pull them out, and carefully rec

Sunday morning had two official objectives. One: photograph babies, because it is baby season and, frankly, tiny wildlife is one of the greatest gifts nature gives us. Two: find and photograph a Barred Owl that had been spotted in the park. But underneath those two goals was the real reason I got up early, packed up my camera gear, and brought Finn along in his little backpack: I wanted quiet time. I wanted to wander through the park before the crowds arrived. I wanted that p

There is something I deeply love about urban wildlife photography. It’s the reminder that animals are not somewhere far away in a perfect wilderness untouched by humans. They are here. Beside us. Above us. Around us. Living their lives while we rush through ours. They have adapted as best they can to our cities, our noise, our roads, our buildings, our fences, and even our sports fields. And this particular Osprey family has decided that a very, very, very tall light pole bes