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Idaho Statesman Article About my Controversial “Badgerine” Photo

Back in June, I was walking through Barber Park with my dogs, and happened to turn around and spot a face peeping out at us between the tall grasses, about 15 yards away. Thankfully, I had my big lens, and so I crouched down and started snapping as he scuttled away. The resulting photo caused some online controversey, and then was subsequently covered in the Idaho Statesman. Please weigh in with…

As I was walking at Seal Point park in San Mateo along the San Francisco Bay one day with my dogs, Minnie and Noodle, I spied, with my owl-vision eyes*, the week owl.

Almost immediately, I recognized the 6-inch tall bold yellow-eyed bird for who he was: A burrowing owl. What didn’t make sense was why he was just standing in the middle of a rock near the bay. And why he didn’t seem spooked by…

I have always loved cameras. When I was a kid though, I couldn’t have one. When I got to adulthood, I had a series of inexpensive cameras and have a lot of fun photos to show for it. But none of them have much value except to me and the other people in them. It didn’t occur to me to take photos of anything except humans during various special occasions.

Flash forward to the digital era. Now,…