This album is under construction.
Subjects include: sandhill cranes, snow geese, ...
Place: Southwest United States, including New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
The Bosque del Apache has beautiful foliage in the fall, but not very many birds (compared to in winter).
Subjects include: whitetail deer, sandhill cranes, railroad station, mallard ducks, white pelicans, great blue heron, coyotes
Place: Bosque del Apache NWF, New Mexico.
Photos taken of the Cumbres and Toltec Railroad near Chama New Mexico. From two excursions to northern NM, one around Sept. 22 and the other around Oct. 13, 2011. A few pictures from the Ghost-Ranch area and Abiquiu are included.
Subjects include: coyote, narrow-gauge railroad, train tresle, steam engine, cowboys, water tower, aspens, coal hopper.
Places: Chama, New Mexico, Cumbres pass, Dos Brazos, Ghost Ranch area, Abiquiu Reservoir, O'Keefe country, Rio Chama.
The Pajarito Ski Mountain (http://skipajarito.com) hosted a Motorcycle Race August 20-21, 2011. This event was organized by Wannabe Racing (http://weberacing.com). I was there mid-day on Sunday, the 21st for the Pro, A, and B class race.
Place: Pararito Mountain, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Los Alamos Rodeo, August 13-14, 2011. Events include mutton busting, bull riding, calf roping, girls breakaway, junior steer riding, chute dogging, bronco riding, barrel racing, calf scramble, and team roping.
Place: Los Alamos County Rodeo Arena.
The Las Conchas fire started around 1:00 PM on June 26, 2011 near a Forest Service campground in the Jemez Mountains, apparently caused by a tree that fell onto a power line. This ferocious fire, driven by high winds and bone-dry foliage, traveled 14 miles and burned 40,000 acres in its first day. Despite the efforts of over 2000 firefighters and a squadron of helicopters, it ultimately consumed more than 150,000 acres. It took over five weeks to fully contain the fire. These photos show how it begin rather innocently and quickly turned into a monster wildfire. Residents of Los Alamos were told to leave on June 27 and were allowed back on July 3.
Subjects include: Las Conchas fire, fireworks, helicopter dropping fire retardant, ridge fire, one-year-old deer, elk grazing, scarred canyon walls, chipmunk, Los Alamos National Lab
Places include: Los Alamos, New Mexico, Las Conchas, Bandelier National Monument, Pajarito Mountain, Valles Caldera, progression of Las Conchas fire
Photos from 3000-mile trip to Texas coast, made with our 21' trailer. Aransas NRW, near Rockport, Texas, is in the area where whooping cranes spend the winter. Laguna Atascosa NRW is located about 25 miles north of the Mexican border. As such, many of its birds are usually associated with Mexico, not the USA, including the crested caracara and the great kiskadee.
Subjects include: alligator, reddish egret, butterflies, frog, live oak, whooping cranes, turke vulture, scissor-tailed flycatcher, ibis, white-tailed deer, yucca, great blue heron, Rio Grande lesser siren, snowy egret, long-billed dowitchers, roseate spoonbill, boat-tailed grackle, green jay, fishing, cactus flowers, crested caracara, golden-hooded woodpecker, northern cardinal, diamond-back rattle snake, plain chachalaca, Altamira oriole, nilgai, greater roadrunner, great kiskadee, house sparrow
Places include: Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Jones Lake, Lamar, Texas, Laguna Atoscosa National Wildlife Refuge.
Wildlife of the Florida Everglades, February 2011. First installment - more to come as time permits. Photos taken by Ken Hanson with Nikon D300 and D90. Please contact me about incorrect captions: kmh@hansonhub.com
Subjects include: red shouldered hawk, roseate spoonbill, great heron, little blue heron, alligator, frog, painted bunting, cardinal, grackle, cormorant, anhinga, osprey, turkey vulture, black vulture, otter, great blue heron
Places include: Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Everglades National Park, Merritt National Wildlife Refuge.
The Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, located near Socorro, New Mexico is well known for the huge number of snow geese and sandhill cranes that overwinter there from November to February; the recent count is 37000 geese and about 8000 sandhills, as well as 53000 pintails. The Bosque is a fantastic place for photographers because of the ready access to numerous bird species and the colorful vegetation and gorgeous scenery, which provide stunning backdrops. Also, a few photos from Sevilleta NWR.
Subjects include: sandhill cranes, snow geese, mass ascension at sunrise, sunset, northern harrier, red-winged black birds, hooded merganser, wild horses.
Places include: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge and Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge.
Photos from a cruise in the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia on the Ocean Light II sailboat. The highlight of this adventure was the unique opportunity to photograph Spirit Bears, unworldly white mutations of black bears, on Gribbell Island. We also saw grizzlies at Mussel Inlet and had a memorable encounter with a humpback whale.
Subjects include: anemones, sea lions, grizzly bears, buffelhead ducks, Ocean Light II, glaucous-winged gull, salmon farming, humpback whale, spirit bear, kermode bear, black bear, kingfisher, Stellar's jay.
Places include: British Columbia, Bella Bella, Shearwater, Mussel Inlet, Gitga'at First Nation, Gribbell Island, Hartley Bay.
Our new Harmony 21 FBS travel trailer. It is 22' long, 7.5' wide, and 9.5' high. It came with two batteries and two propane tanks. The kitchen has a stove, refrigerator, and microwave oven.
Photos taken in Denver in August, 2010 - mostly at Sloan's Lake.
Subjects include: Canada goose, darning needle, water skiing, duck, fishing.
Place: Sloan's Lake, Denver.
Photos of animals and whatnot, taken in 2010, mostly in our yard or around Los Alamos; some from elsewhere.
Subjects include: brown squirrel, towhee, chipmunk, dark-eyed junco, flicker, raven, peacocks, chickadee, evening grosbeak, house finch, sparrows, American goldfinch, mouse, Abert squirrel, pine siskins, garter snake, geese, rabbit, rufous hummingbird, rock pigeons, ring-necked dove, barn swallow.
Places include: New Mexico, Los Alamos, Nambe, Black Mesa, San Ildefonso Reservation, Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Photos taken May 1-8, 2010 on Lindblad/National Geographic cruise among the Galapagos Islands on the Nat. Geo. Endeavour. What an extraordinary adventure! The picture-taking opportunities were endless. Links to albums by other cruise passengers at: www.hansonhub.com/galapagos2010.
Subjects include: frigatebird, land iguana, marine iguana, bottle-nosed dolphin, blue-footed booby, Nazca booby, albatross, sperm whale, sea lion, Swallowed-tail dove, pelican, Sally lightfoot crab, mockingbird, tortoises, painted locust, Black-necked stilts, Yellow warbler, lava heron, American oystercatcher, barn owl, Galapagos cotton, Momordica fruit, zodiac, post office barrel.
Places include: Baltra island, North Seymour island, Espanola island, Floreana island, Roca Redondo island, Santa Cruz island, Isabela island, Fernandina island, Santiago island, Bartolome, Cuba
Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge and Wister Waterfowl Management Area, Feb. 16-19, 2010. Huge numbers of birds overwinter at the Salton Sea. Salton Sea is a strange place indeed, an approximate 370-square-mile lake in the middle of a desert, which lies 290 feet below sea level. I had noticed it many times when flying from San Diego to Phoenix or Albuquerque. It is even more remarkable from the air because of the large green irrigated fields that extend from its southern edge all the way to Mexico.
Subjects include: American coots, Greater yellowlegs, Snowy egret, Brown pelican, Western grebe, American avocet, Great egret, Gambel's quail, Mourning dove, White-faced ibises, Northern harrier, Double-crested cormorant, Ring-billed gull, yellow-bill cattle egret, Turkey vulture, Cliff swallow, Bufflehead ducks, Red-winged blackbird, Yellow-rumped warbler, Ruddy duck, Black-necked stilt, Western meadowlark, Burrowing owl, Sweet acacia, Geothermal power plants.
Places include: Salton Sea, Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge, Wister Waterfowl Management Area, San Diego.
This morning we heard a ruckus in our yard. It turned out that three coyotes were brawling right outside our bedroom window. It was soon clear they were fighting over something buried in the snow. The largest coyote quickly took charge; while the other two skulked around at a distance, the alpha male proceeded to dig in the snow to uncover a haunch of a deer. He gnawed on it for several minutes before taking it behind the lilac bushes in the back of our yard. These pictures were taken through a double-paned window, so they are a bit soft.
Inside Passage with Cruise West; June 17-25. Places visited: Juneau, Haines, Skagway, Glacier Bay, Sitka, Tracy Arm, Fredrick Sound, Petersburg, Metlakatla, Misty Fjords, Behm Canal, Ketchikan.
Subjects include: arctic tern, ravens, Mendenhall glacier, beaver, bald eagle, sea otter, sea lions, cormorants, tufted puffin, Eldred Rock Lighthouse, common, murres, pigeon Guillemots, Black-legged Kittiwakes, brown bear (grizzly), Margerie glacier calving, orca whales, ducks, humpback whales, Sawyer glacier, owl, flamingo tree, butter cups, Spirit of Endeavour (ship)
Sequences showing glacier calving http://picasaweb.google.com/kmhpix/200906AlaskaSequence
Trip to Denali with Cruise West; June 8-16, starting in Fairbanks and ending in Anchorage.
Subjects include: Denali, sled dog, snowshoe hare, red fox, Emperor geese with goslings, beaver, cotton grass, northern shovelers, common loon, ptarmigan, moose, Oeder's lousewort, caribou, Moss campion, chipmunk
Photos from a photographic workshop conducted by Brad Hill. The place is the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Sanctuary, which is located in British Columbia about 28 miles south of Alaska. The Khutz is a magical place. The grizzlies were very much at ease with our presence and not at all aggressive. Our guide, Tom Ellison, told us this is because they have not been hunted in the Sanctuary for decades. He sought out extraordinary photographic situations, which the photos in this album hopefully demonstrate.
Subjects include: bald eagle, sea lion, dandelion, float plane, grizzly, teeter totter, clams, mink, harlequin ducks, common mergansers, raven, lupine, fogbow, Mount Hood, Brad, Tom, David, Malcom, Steve, Frank, Pete, Jenn, Sarah
Sanibel Island, Florida, Feb. 12-19, 2009. Most pictures from the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, some at beach near Tropical Winds Motel.
Subjects include: wood stork, tortoise, gecko, anhinga, alligator, little blue heron, turtle, great egret, red-shouldered hawk, crab, brown pelicans, sea shells, dunlin, osprey, royal terns, ring-bill gull, ruddy duck,sanderlings, reddish egret, racoon, white ibis, sunflower, airplant, snowy egret, double-crested cormorant, common merganser, great blue heron, roseate spoonbill, tree crab, yellow-crowned night heron, red-bellied woodpecker, tricolored heron, poinsettia, grackle, crow
Photos from ski trip to Alta, Utah. Los Alamos group organized by Randy Carlson.
Subjects include: Utah Canyons - aerial photo, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Alta Peruvian Lodge, Beto, Randy, Chuck, Mike, George, Laurie, Beto, Paul, Mike, Ken, Karen, Dallas, Brett, Michelle, Fred, Janet, Swimming pool, Westward Ho, Mt. Superior, Hellgate, Mount Baldy, Glory Hole, East Castle, Upper Big Dipper, Supreme lift, Alta panorama, Sugarloaf lift, Solitude panorama
Photos mostly from in our yard or around Los Alamos; some from elsewhere.
Subjects include: Frost crystals, Orchid, Duck, Ashley Pond pond, Red ivy geranium (Pelargonium), Chickadee, Apricot tree, Goose, Flicker, Russian Olive tree, Robin, Pasque flower, Snow storm, Santa Fe home, Whole Foods produce, Bee, Apple blossom, Blue salvia, Abert's (tassel-eared) squirrel, Candytuft blossoms, Dandelion seed head, Potentilla, Brown squirrel, Lilac flowers, Daffodil, Spanish hardy broom, Wild currant flowers, Blue spruce, Magpie, Western grebes, Wildflowers, Red tailed hawk, Red winged blackbird, Old-mans bones sedum, Purple columbine, White iris, Greek yarrow, Yellow pansy, Wilson's geranium, Wasp, Fly, cotoneaster, Garter snake, Garden snake, Salvia, Lily of the valley, Wild cranberry, Rose, Pansy, Blue flax, Mexican primrose, California poppy, Red coral bells, Blue-spruce cone, Lichen, Iris, Hardy yellow ice plant, Yucca flowers, Beetle on penstemon bud, Day Lilly, Snapdragon, Ladybug, Western bluebird, Valle Grande Caldera, Elk, Gaillardia, Long legged spider, Robin chicks, Sunflower, Tachinid fly (Adejeania), Nectar scavenger, Butterfly, butterfly bush, Sphinx moth, Broad-tailed hummingbird (male), Rufous hummingbird (female), Chamisa, House wren, Sunflower seeds, Oregano flower, Trumpet vine, Russian sage flower, Fawn, Sangre de Christo Mountains, Hollyhock, Lesser goldfinch, cosmos, Chipmunk, Cardinal penstemon, Spotted towhee, grape vine, Pine siskin, Bayo Canyon
Examples of "painterly" effects provided by Photoshop Elements 6 in its filter menu. One or more effects are shown for each scene, as well as the original photo. The PSE6 name for each effect is given, followed by the parameters used. I think these simple-to-use filters may be useful for creating a desired visual impression. Still, my wife likes the originals best.
Subjects include: Ruffled violet iris, Blue salvia, Salmon and yellow columbine, Butterflies on butterfly bush, Deep lilac cosmos, Red geraniums, Cosmos and gaillardia, Red chili ristras, Rancho de Chimayo, Colored pencil, Sumi-e, Poster edges, Dry brush, Paint daubs, Palette knife, Watercolor, Smudge stick, Accented edges
Photos of flora and fauna in our backyard, arranged roughly in chronological order through the year. Most photos were taken with a Nikon D300 using either a 18-135-mm or 70-300-mm lens; a few with a D80.
Subjects include: Abert's (tassel-eared) squirrel, Pasque flower, Stray cat, Pink crabapple blossoms, Coyote, Candy tuft, Christmas cactus, Iris, Spanish hardy broom, Grosbeak chick, Lizard, Potentilla, Butterfly, Viburnum bush, Asparagus-like plants, Clematis, Agastache, Dianthus, Bee, Soapwort, Apache Plume, Penstemon, Columbine, Delphinium ('blue mirror'), Bee, Rocky Mountain Penstemon, Lupine, Cotton-tail rabbit, White-breasted Nuthatch, Chinese Elm, Snow in summer, Gaillardia, Coneflower, Apples, Petunia, Cape Blanco sedum (Sedum spathulifolium), Red coral bells, Morning yarrow (Coronation Gold Hybrid), Penstemon piniflora, Rough Fungus Beetle (Gibbifer californicus), Blue catmint, Alstremeria, Blue salvia, Violas, Ladybug, Yellow day lily, Beaujolais lysimechia atropurpurea, Scabiosa, Zinnia grandiflora, Pandora sphinx moth, Pocket gopher, Cinquefoil, Moth, Santolina, Daisies, Orange gazania, Red petunia, Red geranium, Wild currant, Three-leaf sumac, Red ivy geranium (Pelargonium), Yellow columbine, Hooker's evening primrose, Dark red dahlia (delicious raspberry), Pink iceplant, Silver blade evening primrose, Honeysuckle, Mushrooms, Pink geranium, Hardy yellow ice plant, Red geranium, Moonbeam coreopsis, Blue mist, Holly berries, Pink zinnia, Red zinnia, Cosmos, Red-leaf lettuce, Flowering oregano, Sunflower, Hen and chicks, Tachinid fly (Archytas), Statice, Tarragon flowers, Buckwheat, White phlox, Red and yellow Mexican hat flowers, Blue Woolly Veronica, Gold finch, Snow in summer, Hummingbirds, 'Wild Thing' salvia, Sunset Hyssop (Rupestris agastache), Lamb's ear, Yellow gazania, White coreopsis, Hairy cactus, Evening primrose, Dragon flies, Chipmunk, Pinyon tree, Scrub jay, Ruby-throated hummingbird, Spider, White coral bells, Greek oregano, Russian sage, Snake, Hollyhock ('Fordhook'), Blue grama grass, Bar Harbor juniper, Margarita daisy, Butterfly (Red Admiral - Vanessa atalanta), Turkey vulture, Los Alamos canyon, Western bluebird, Virginia creeper, Pair of flickers, American goldfinches, Red-naped sapsucker, Broad-tailed hummingbird, Deer, Raspberry leaves, Colorado blue spruce, Christmas hawk
50th birthday party for Lynne.
Photos of Robert F. Wagner and friends, contributed by various people in various locales. Bob died on June 30, 2008. For reminiscences of Bob Wagner, please visit the memorial website at https://sites.google.com/site/robertfwagnermemorial/ If you have pictures of Bob and friends to share, please send them to kennethmhanson@msn.com .
Photos of Yves Bizais, his wife, Terese, and friends, taken near Nantes and Brest, France, and near Newport Beach, CA, and Los Alamos, NM. Yves died on October 26, 2008.
Remodel of our kitchen and laundry room. What a mess! Ruby loves sitting in the sun on our new unfinished cherry floor.
Subjects include: cherry cabinets, Corian Earth countertop, WOCA Master Oil application, stained Boston birch flooring, scaled cherry flooring, Spagna Vetro 218 Z2 cooktop range hood, GE Profile cooktop, LG French-door refrigerator, GE Profile double oven, LG dishwasher
Ski trip to Alta, February 3-9, 2008 - a cold and snowy week
Subjects include: Alta Peruvian Lodge is almost covered by snow, Randy, Chuck, Ken, Mike, Laurie, George, Lev, Collins lift, Mount Baldy, Devil's Castle, Sugarloaf lift, Alta powder, Hellgate, East Castle, Catherine's bowl, East Greeley, Supreme lift, Devil's Castle, Sleepy Hollow, Albion lift, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Westward Ho, Mount Superior, Utah Badlands
A week-long vacation along the Maine coast including Pemaquid Peninsula, Desert Island, and Acadia National Park. Plus a few pix from Connecticut. Photographer: Ken Hanson Camera: Nikon D80
Subjects include: Pemaquid peninsula, Pemaquid Point Light House, Hotel Pemaquid, Sailboat, Pemaquid Harbor, Contented Sole restaurant, Fort William Henry, Cormorant, Seagull, Ye Old Forte Cabins, Tern, Pemaquid Beach, Beach rose (Rosa rugosa), Berries, Beach, Beach rose hips (Rosa rugosa), Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla), Seagull, Pemaquid Beach, Cemetery, Shaw’s Fish and Lobster Wharf, New Harbor, New Harbor harbor, Lower Haddock Pond, Mount Desert Island, Cadillac Mountain, Porcupine Islands, Cranberry Islands, Sand Beach, Acadia National Park, Acadia coast, Flanders Bay, Schoodic Point, Power boat in Pemaquid Harbor, East Pond, Mystic River, Mystic, Connecticut, Sailboat regatta, Noank, Connecticut, Cormorant
Cruise West cruise on Spirit of Endeavour, May 2007. Juneau, Tracy Arm, Fredrick Sound, Sitka, Elfin Cove, Glacier Bay National Park, Icy Strait.
Subjects include: Juneau, Alaska, Helicopter, Cruise ship, Gastineau Channel, Taku River, Blue ice, Jeannene, Ken, Blue crevasse, Governor's mansion, Outer Point, Douglas Island, Skunk cabbage, Twisty moss, Tracy Arm, Sawyer Glacier, Jeff Pietka, Black bear, North Sawyer Glacier, Black bear, Zodiac excursion, Humpback whale, Stiller's sea lions, Julie Smith, Bald eagle, Spirit of Endeavour, Humpback fluking, Cheryl Poulson, Fredrick Sound, Mt. Edgecumbe, Sitka, Float plane, St. Michael's Cathedral, Sheldon Jackson Museum, Sitka, Old wooden bowl, Wooden mask, Ivory carving, Fishermen, Sitka National Historic Park, Wood print from Book of Hats by Dale DeArmond, Sitka Sound, Sea otter carrying pup, Puffins, Mark Kelley, Elfin Cove, fishing village, Fairweather Range (in Glacier Bay NP), Annabelle Washington, Minke whales, Bear bread fungus, Land otter, Bartlett Cove, Halibut, Glacier Bay NP headquarters, Black bear, Black ice sculpture, Reid Glacier, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Mike and Jeri Maus, Johns Hopkins Glacier, Dirty berglet, Blue ice, Brown bear family, Mountain goat, Tlingit native american, Sea lion, Marble Island, Black-legged Kittiwake, Pelagic cormorants, Sea otter, Boulder Island, Glacier Bay, Capt. Mike Flemming, Icy Strait, Old wooden bowl, Mask, Totem, Woven basket, Endicott Arm, Dawes Glacier
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