It’s been said that timing is everything and that certainly holds true for eagle photographs. Some of my favorite images come from eagles on ice…fishing as the water opens up and the ice melts away. Backwaters and marinas are particularly good places for this kind of thing. Perfect timing is when the water is just … Read more
Experience counts for a lot on the big river. When a Bald Eagle earns its white head and tail…you know it’s learned a thing or two about survival. Unlike the brown juvenile birds, the adults don’t tend to waste energy…especially during bad weather. They hunt and fish with purpose, and use their knowledge of the … Read more
Locked and loaded… is a term I used to hear so often in sales meetings that I began to roll my eyes whenever the phrase was uttered. As I saw it, it was overused and beaten to death in motivational speeches. Watch an eagle descend on a fish, however, and you get the true meaning … Read more
Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It’s like you’re touching the essence, the very substance of life. Kim Novak
One of the more enjoyable evenings in September involved a lightning storm just east of town. We got a little rain with it, but it wasn’t enough to wash out the scene. The weather made for a nice combination with the Norbert F Beckey bridge over the Mississippi River, which is always lit up with … Read more
In October of this year, the American Queen riverboat made a stop in Muscatine. I posted about it on social media but added little to the blog here for some reason. To bring things up to speed, this was a trial stop for the boat and visitors stopped at several places including the Pearl Button … Read more