The Variety Collection

My images in this gallery are used in other galleries or for elements of the website, but please do feel free to browse/shop it if you are curious. You will find a large potpourri of my photography in this collection with image subjects ranging from urban to wilderness.

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Buteo and His Coat of Many Colors

Fly first class and View Large on Black

A Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) flies in front of some rather impressive iridescent clouds (they really do look like this!).

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day All!

It seems right around the same time windy weather hit the Front Range of Colorado we started to see more iridescent clouds. I don't know if there's a true correlation, but it would seem that wind could help maintain thin clouds with similar size droplets needed for diffraction to make them shine with color such as we see here. Maybe I should ask Iris ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(mythology) ) , heh.

Bird Birding BiF Hawk Raptor Bird of Prey Soaring Rainbow Iridescent Iridescence Cloud Clouds Sky Atomosphere Iris Redtailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis Optics Water Droplets Iridescent Clouds Coronae Corona Silhouette Nature Animal Flight Colors motherofpearl pearlescent Nikon D300 169 Wide Not a Composite Avian Birds Ornithology Wildlife 2009 Michael Menefee