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Natural Happenings, Summer 2018, #2

Posted on August 1, 2018 by

“Beauty Happens”. That is a line from a great book on sexual selection, entitled “The Evolution Of Beauty”, by Richard O. Prum, Professor of Ornithology at Yale University. If you love studying Evolution, you’ll love this book.

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Natural Happenings, Summer 2018

Posted on July 21, 2018 by

It’s been a hot summer, so far, in the upper Rio Grande Valley. The monsoon arrived on time – at the end of the first week of July, – but is now disappointing us with fewer thunder storms than we … Continue reading →

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We? Who The Hell Are We?

Posted on July 11, 2018 by

              “We? Who The Hell Are We?” Looked at in the fullness of time we humans are a problem only for ourselves evolution will replenish the planet once we are removed   We will … Continue reading →

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Anting the Hatch, 6-5-18

Posted on June 6, 2018 by

I did not invent this phrase. One minute on Google sufficed to identify the author as Ken Miyata, who wrote an article thus titled in Fly Fisherman Magazine, Volume 13, No. 6, in 1982. When I returned from the river … Continue reading →

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Rio Grande – Google Earth Maps & More #1

Posted on March 17, 2018 by

This is the first of four posts that contain Google Earth maps of four stretches of the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico. From upstream to downstream, they are the Taos Box, Orilla Verde Recreation Area, the Racecourse and the … Continue reading →

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Compositing and Honesty

Posted on February 26, 2018 by

Originally posted on Crest, Cliff & Canyon:
Questions regarding the ethics and taste of digitally composited photos have been a hot topic on the landscape photography internet recently. Issues surrounding manipulation of photographs are as old as photography itself, but…

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Fall Along the Rio Grande – Bighorns, Beavers, Brown Trout, Birds and Beautiful Days

Posted on November 29, 2017 by

Fall Along the Rio Grande (2017) – Bighorns, Beavers, Brown Trout, Birds and Beautiful Days Bighorn sheep The Bighorn sheep herd that spent considerable time in the Orilla Verde (OV) section of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument was … Continue reading →

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