Located in Toms River, NJ 530 acre Cattus Island is a part of the Ocean County Park system. In the heart of the “Jersey Shore” Cattus Island offers a variety of ecosystems including maritime upland pine/oak forest, salt marsh, and freshwater wetlands. Cattus Island Park plays home to a multitude of plant and wildlife and [...]
The Mid-Atlantic region’s mild winters – temperatures rarely dip below 20˚ F – and plentiful sunshine make it hard to stay indoors for long. Many woodland birds and mammals have fewer hiding places, and the need to conserve energy means they’re often more interested in feeding than in running away from photographers. But the winter [...]
My family spends the winter months (January to April) in Florida to escape the cold in New Jersey. This past winter Florida had below normal temps but it was still better than the cold and snow in New Jersey. The cold Florida winter took it’s toll on the fish, there was a large fish kill [...]
Photography lends well to those who think, “what else do you do when you look for things to grace that new roll of film or the mega pixels processed by the sensors on a digital camera?” Then there are the times when the weather sucks like it did in the North East this year. So [...]
Well, this color isn’t that exciting but it is incredibly common in nature, brown. A bit on the dull side, sometimes even boring. Brown doesn’t stand out too much and yet it can still make for some dramatic views or hard to find animals and birds. When the sun hits something brown just right it [...]
One of my favorite winter activities is locating and photographing American Bald Eagles. Their population is growing every year near my home in southeast Minnesota and is evidenced by spotting more and more of their unmistakable huge nests along the Mississippi river. Add their numbers to those of migrating eagles and once in awhile I [...]
We just got nailed with a very bad (or good depending on how you look at it) snow storm here in the Northeast this past weekend. Here in the southern New Jersey where I live we got 23 inches of snow in just a little over 1 day. I realize compared to some areas of [...]
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