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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
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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.

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  • The Architect
  • Inaugural Berries
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  • Pawnee Pleasure Dome
  • Polychromatic San Juan Sunset Sheen
  • Lunar Flyby
  • A blue bridge to Venus
  • Life Returns
  • Mammoth Infinity Pool
  • Rainy Olympic Coastal Memories
  • Columbia River Gorge Condensation
  • A San Juan Islands Sunset Cruise
  • A Peak Cascadian Experience Vertorama
  • Ross Lake Lunar Twilight Blues
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