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With the remnants of tropical storm Hahna passing over us on Saturday, the water levels on the Susquehanna River were helped a little bit on Sunday and the Eagles were presented a pretty good of fishing opportunities. Unfortunately they didn’t make use of many of those opportunities and it was […]

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So I ended up photographing Eagles in Maryland again today. My intention was a return trip down to the National Zoo in Washington D.C. but Hurricane Gustav changed my plans but not in the way that you would think.
I’m a weather junkie. I have premium memberships for both the […]

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Originally uploaded by Gregg Obst
Saw my first banded bird of the season. This one was a Cormorant flying with a fish and a band on it’s right leg. I didn’t know they banded Cormorants but apparently they do indeed. This was on the Susquehanna River in Maryland on Sunday August 31st. […]

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Great Blue Heron in flight 8-30-2008
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I’m in the process of re-organizing the way I have my SmugMug photo galleries with regards to the nature and wildlife photos. I had originally set them up the same way I had my older racing galleries but it really doesn’t make much sense to […]

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Click here for a gallery of waterfall photos I shot while hiking the Falls Trail at Rickett’s Glen State Park in Northeast Pennsylvania.   I used slow shutter speeds to accentuate the artistic nature of the water as it meanders over and around the twenty falls they have at the park.  I shot the ones […]

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Click here for a small gallery featuring shots of both waterfalls at Dingmans Falls in Northeast Pennsylvania.    Dingmans Falls is part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and features two very tall waterfalls and a boardwalk that enables easy access to both falls.
For additional information on visiting DIngmans Falls, see their web […]

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Click here for a small gallery of photos I shot while at Promised Land State Park in Northeast Pennsylvania.  I hung out at the Wildlife Observation Station on the lower lake for about twelve hours in total and all these shots were from Friday.  It rained off and on during the entire day and all […]

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My first trip to the National Zoo was awesome.  That place was great.  It was hot as hell and the zoo involves a lot of walking.  I think I sweat off five pounds while I was there.  They had a few exhibits closed down for upgrades and the Elephant Trail was completely being reconstructed so […]

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I have a pretty busy vacation week next week.  I haven’t really taken a non-racing vacation in the last ten years so this is going to be a real treat.  I’ve arranged a good variety of different stops where I can try my hand at shooting a lot of different subjects in a variety of […]

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I’ve reached a crossroads of sorts.  I am completely burned out on racing photography and at the same time I have a renewed interest in a much broader spectrum of photography including nature photography.  I’ve been doing the racing photography thing for ten years now.  During that time I ran a major news web site […]

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