http://www.allanculver.com/recent-images daily 0.75 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1764175827600-FCLX0PP6I0V18AZAGEOL/Tea+for+the+Tillerman.jpg Recent Images - Tea for the Tillerman "We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe." - Christopher Morley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1764175004787-6PQPU628XJF8MJCO4WW0/image-asset.jpg Recent Images - Tea for the Tillerman "We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe." - Christopher Morley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1764175827600-FCLX0PP6I0V18AZAGEOL/Tea+for+the+Tillerman.jpg Recent Images - Tea for the Tillerman "We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe." - Christopher Morley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1676651680613-FWE6MM3BLV0EA8F0O93O/K.jpg Recent Images - K Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters. - Vera Nazarian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1675874854042-0RWEBIUUGBMYNHPQGZF6/Broken+Glass.jpg Recent Images - Broken Glass Several sheets of broken glass covered with years of dust and dirt. It can’t get prettier than this. “To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” - Elliott Erwitt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1665586148079-XPHSC4N7B8EJA698FD6G/Truck+Window.jpg Recent Images - Truck Window It took decades for this broken windshield to develop this beautiful patina. Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. — Anton Chekhov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1636387925899-FAM5D7L4S95B4O89COZK/A+Rock+in+a+Rock+in+a+Rock.jpg Recent Images - A Rock in a Rock in a Rock What happened here? How did this come about? “There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head”. - Damon Knight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1634658308642-IQI8ZW7TWGZM2ONPMDDY/Mysterious+Window.jpg Recent Images - Mysterious Window This photograph was taken inside Fort Point; that is all I will tell you, the rest is for your imagination. ”We artists allow others to see through our windows.” - Robert Genn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1634309271011-O4Z1ZD5367UBYGKPRVD3/River+of+Life.jpg Recent Images - River of Life River of Life I admire the person that carved the River of Life motif into this mission door. While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. – Max Muller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1633099970859-ZJBN4MTKLNUY5STOEW63/Discarded+Window+Frames.jpg Recent Images - Discarded Window Frames How many years have these window frames been sitting here in the elements waiting for me to take this photograph? ”Photography is simply a function of noticing things.” - Elliott Erwitt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1593184145589-1Y803HFYOXJMZK41DW0J/Fantasia.jpg Recent Images - Fantasia Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1585412668102-3F05PLXXPRG8YBATNLEU/Lower+Sash.jpg Recent Images - Lower Sash Maybe this window would have created a very good image with the glass being unbroken, but I like the curving piece of broken glass with the white paint on its edge just for that last bit of gesture. “We live in a world of half-completed things or damaged objects, but I had never articulated to myself that in fact there were times quite often that I preferred the objects that way.”- Navina Haidar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1585412856488-RTGWF8DUNZFTFDKFRVKY/Going+to+Seed.jpg Recent Images - Going to Seed An Onion Scape just before the flowers opened. How Lovely the silence of growing things. – Evan Dicken https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1579025255847-8DBFEW5A58ON04OPSSOL/Old+Glove.jpg Recent Images - Old Glove For 8 to 10 years I have walked by this old glove stuck on a stake and always thought it looked interesting. But this day I had to run back home for my camera. I don’t think I should say what it looked like to me on this day, but hopefully you will see something fun and interesting. “The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.” - Paul Caponigro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1560895300781-62W5LH47OMGU0DGA4TLJ/Superman.jpg Recent Images - Superman This was an old truck with the company name painted in two colors, one color faded away and left the black outline. I saw the finished photograph in my mind immediately. And yes it is an S. Everybody looks at what I am looking at, but no one sees what I see. – Felicte de Lamennais https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1562555245890-A91XAT6B8GERI8ATGIZ8/Lily+Pad+Flower.jpg Recent Images - Lily Pad Flower I made a few exposures from slightly different angles hoping for the one photo that would bring out the feeling I had when looking at the scene, when this fish photobombed the exposure. Thanks to the fish this is a much more interesting photograph. “It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.” Claude Monet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1536288892983-1Y1DPJ5HQ61K9H4XF5HR/Weed%2C+Paint+Drips+and+Dirt.jpg Recent Images - Weed, Paint Drips and Dirt While most photographers can’t wait to get to Yosemite or some grand vista, I am quite happy at the city dump. This is an old shipping container splattered with paint, years of dirt and more paint and then this beautiful weed. I could ask for no more. Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness. - St. Augustine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1535681416980-2OAKXPG1XHJS7J202P23/Let+There+Be+Dragons.jpg Recent Images - Let There Be Dragons The camera does not lie, I have seen dragons in all their wrath. Come not between the dragon, and his wrath. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, King Lear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1535597934711-Z7JB3M4200MUDUS0D2EA/San+Juan+Bautista+Mission+Window.jpg Recent Images - San Juan Bautista Mission Window Which was my eye drawn to first; the Mondrianesque stained glass window or the shadows from the overhanging roof tiles? I believe that intuition was at work here saying this is an image you must take home. It is something that happens in a fraction of a second. "Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture."- Piet Mondrian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516937743336-SO3YJ81DWBBXXFFL7FEQ/Puff+the+Magic+Dragon.jpg Recent Images - Puff the Magic Dragon I saw this guy at the Amador County Fair and he brought a smile to my face and continues to do so every time I look at this photograph. “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” ― Oscar Wilde https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1493523493520-HE3F7JDL5W7GDFSF0QV9/White+Glove+Test.jpg Recent Images - White Glove Test? While other photographers are happy in the grand landscape, finding something like this old glove makes my heart race. I found this glove so wonderful, that I brought it home; I hope someone won’t miss it. “Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.” ― Whoopi Goldberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1453058064846-IJECIESCOLBVSGVY66YA/Silhouette.jpg Recent Images - Silhouette When I photographed this window it was the broken leaning piece of glass that caught my eye, but on further viewing, I saw the profile of a person wearing a baseball cap. If you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before. – Aaron Siskind https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1437857209128-3FUQ0ALYL39IQ5UT8K1R/Muntins.jpg Recent Images - Muntins Finding this old broken window was such a delight that I lost myself for some time while I tried to find the best gesture. “Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.” – Walker Evans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1476067601220-R993AOVWI2YGBDCG6LZ3/Phantom+Flowers.jpg Recent Images - Phantom Flowers The shadows cast onto the sidewalk created a better photograph in my mind’s eye than the real thing. Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today. - Edward Abbey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1436913703452-V9JPVASIWL2971AXIOSM/Nightmare.jpg Recent Images - Nightmare A straight print of a rock formation, just dodging and burning and contrast adjustment. I see no need for fancy software to distort reality, when nature is far more creative than any artist has ever been. “You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.” – Annie Leibovitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1430878579459-Q8YOF16XHTQDHQSIY99A/Carmelite+Monastery+Window+-+Carmel+CA.jpg Recent Images - Carmelite Monastery Window – Carmel CA When I photograph something I usually have pretty good idea in my mind of what I am after in a final image. But on occasion I can be very surprised. The wall and window in front of me held an air of mystery for me and I was very surprised and pleased at the outcome. Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That and surprise. – Julia Cameron   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1534285973602-4473KW1V56GUXIMDAE0M/The+Decisive+Moment.jpg Recent Images - The Decisive Moment This photograph was pure luck; I never have my camera on motor-drive. So to capture the moment of touch down with one claw and wings folded up, that’s pure luck. But there is something to be said for being prepared. To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. - Henri Cartier Bresson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1428808383975-6KMFMD7RSG1DX1QUQTU5/The+Johnston+House.jpg Recent Images - The Johnston House You just have to wonder why the two windows have the drapes closed. “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” - Thoreau   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1468639688476-6QQ8FTZUB2X7IPXTCD0B/Sand+Art+-+Flames.jpg Recent Images - Sand Art - Flames Sand at Pfeiffer State Beach. “In every out-thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” ― Rachel Carson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1477106303585-G4JQBMDIPDQSTJQ4W7LW/Sand+Art+-+Tulipa.jpg Recent Images - Sand Art - Tulipa My pulse quickened when I saw these patterns in the sand at Pfeiffer State Beach. I hope this photograph quickens your pulse as well. "My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal." - Ruth Bernhard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1486506173262-VU05H5YN1SMEYYZ6REX4/Easy+Chair+-+Rhyolite.jpg Recent Images - Easy Chair _ Rhyolite, NV After a long day of carrying a heavy camera and tripod, I was tempted to enter this shack and have a seat to relax my weary bones.   “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.” ― Jane Austen http://www.allanculver.com/viewer-favorites daily 1.0 2022-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516474072023-4GEKTKWTERFYEIJRP4SH/Tattered+Curtain.jpg Favorites - Tattered Curtain A tattered curtain and now just an old rag, but to my eye, it is so much more. Gesture is hard to explain; gesture is that quintessential thing that gives what you are photographing a specific character. – Jay Maisel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516474072023-4GEKTKWTERFYEIJRP4SH/Tattered+Curtain.jpg Favorites - Tattered Curtain A tattered curtain and now just an old rag, but to my eye, it is so much more. Gesture is hard to explain; gesture is that quintessential thing that gives what you are photographing a specific character. – Jay Maisel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1605302488786-I8UA0PS0BJRW5FGNQG7B/Dented+and+Broken.jpg Favorites - Dented and Broken I could go photograph pretty pictures of flowers and the landscape, but no, I find the edges of humanity and its debris beautiful to my eye. ”There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.” - Gilbert Keith Chesterton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516485541033-HR9XG5F56QWNZM2ODJHY/Can%27t+Wait+to+Fly+Away.jpg Favorites - Can't Wait to Fly Away Skies are grey, I'm looking for anything that will bring a happy glow. Night or day, it doesn't matter where I go anymore, I just go. Can't Wait - Bob Dylan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516473477935-LVOBQZ6GR3GZ54K3QV9E/My+Little+Demon.jpg Favorites https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516473531828-1DWDZWQHJVU6MKUEQAVB/My+Little+Demon.jpg Favorites - My Little Demon I loved the interplay between the snarling winged creature and his little demon. My little demon is coming after me. Lindsay Buckingham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516485229471-PK24AE2HRWISCP2PPJ68/Fort+Ord+Barracks+Wall.jpg Favorites - Fort Ord Barracks When I saw this white wall with its torn surface creating the feathered edge, I thought it was beautiful and I had to make a photograph. Later after making the print, I keep going back and forth between looking at the white surface with the torn edge and looking at the darkened inner space of the crisscrossing layers. A good of example of “figure and ground”. I am drawn to powerful, mysterious places... The 'creative haunting' of these locations has been imprinted on my spirit. - J.R. Baldini https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516473831400-7MAELUQWLVLZF8ZTRXII/Yard+Art+1.jpg Favorites - Yard Art Poor Man's Bronze is less than a mile from my house and I never scanned the place for photographs until Henry Paine in his excited way pushed me a little and opened my eyes. Thanks Henry. "In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it." Emile Zola https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516474195972-69TD47C0RXWZ2K0FBDSU/Cannon+Ball.jpg Favorites - Cannon Ball People ask me did you Photoshop this and I say, “absolutely”. “I used to work in the darkroom, but nobody asked if I darkroomed my prints, which I did. “I see something special and show it to the camera. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.” – Sam Abell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516485688677-UAVEKNIBMI21L44V7S2F/Sand+Art+-+Flames.jpg Favorites - Sand Art - Flames Sand at Pfeiffer State Beach. “In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” ― Rachel Carson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516473352083-SIFWM1DYTMLLXN766KJ8/My+Little+Demon.jpg Favorites https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516485450244-OFZCI5CARBLDZU5PFXKO/Cardboard+Strips.jpg Favorites - Cardboard Strips It’s that torn little bit that draws the eye and it was my job to compose so the gesture of the tear became the focus. There is gesture in everything. It’s up to you to find a gesture that is most telling. Jay Maisel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516485908068-YUKIXQJGQOGKZP7CBDF0/Car+fender+%231.jpg Favorites - Car Fender #1 My mentor once said that people come upon an interesting subject and wind up taking a picture of the "whole damn thing. It's usually not the entire barn or car, but some part of it that is the photograph". This old car in Death Valley I feel is a good example of not taking a picture of the "whole damn thing", but rather taking the time to find the "Gesture". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516486060241-IFRKOX6YB8ZUYH63S64X/White+Picket+Fence.jpg Favorites - White Picket Fence This is a very gratifying photograph for me, it was taken with my 4x5 camera and it was a challenge to set up the camera. All of the swings and tilts were maxed out and the depth of field was also pushed to its limits. Add the one hour wait for the sun to get to the right position and that maxed out my patience but it was worth it. If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. - - Michelangelo Buonarroti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516504347090-3RAVJSVZL0ITE5D3ZBK4/Broken+Window+Pull+Cord.jpg Favorites - Broken Window - Pull Cord Broken Windows create strong graphic shapes and may be called urban blight, but I think they can also be visual poetry for the mind. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. - Paulo Coelho https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516504796548-DKLJ6DMGOJ9HOIF5B7YH/Monastery+Steps.jpg Favorites - Monastery Steps I cannot claim originality for this photograph, the original inspiration came from Rod Dresser who photographed these steps in 1982. It was such a simple but powerful composition that stayed always in my memory. I did not want to copy Rod’s photograph but wanted to make a version that would represent my feelings. Rod Passed away in November 2011 and never saw this photograph, I hope he would have liked my version. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1516504956018-FMB265QKGBCZGARU95KO/Knights+Foundry+Window.jpg Favorites - Knights Foundry Window Old dirty windows are always a common photographic theme for photographers and I am not immune to that draw. With this large gear, the eye is pulled straight into the photograph and you are left wondering what was going on here in years past. My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. - Edward Weston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1520390197784-M4255T7U8K77AGW9OICD/39.jpg Favorites - 39 I think there are times when knowing what the subject of a photograph is can actually diminish the viewing experience. I would prefer not to reveal the subject and keep the mystery. I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings. (Balthus) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1520390392291-5O28SKATHAEKIHBEUI1H/Drying+Clay+Pots.jpg Favorites - Drying Clay Pots When I came across this scene I had the feeling of a grade school classroom, the cardboard laying on the pots looked like a school desk. I have had one other person tell me that the photograph reminds them of being in school. It’s more than just cardboard laying on pots. This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. - Edward Weston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1520390635340-C6CWONKRIV333XLL5VW5/Enso-Iron+Shutter.jpg Favorites - Enso - Iron Shutters I was on my way to Z pies in Placerville when I passed a group of iron shutters. Each shutter that I passed was calling out to me, "Take My Picture", but this shutter won out. I ran back to the car grabbed my camera and by the time I got back the shadow was in the perfect position. "Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." Ansel Adams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1520390896513-Z4DHDCLLLROMXN8U2D1V/M.jpg Favorites - M A Chevy Impala abandoned, stripped, covered in graffiti and a few bullet holes. I liked the M. "If by chance someone is looking at some picture that seems to be a ‘found photograph,’ it makes no difference that he understand what I was trying to do, because I was not trying to do anything.” - Minor White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1520390424488-N59KVCV73IHFQAGHNOUH/Elegant+Gorp.jpg Favorites - Elegant Gorp I am glad that someone didn’t write on this window “wash me”; they would have ruined the ‘elegant gorp’. “The taint of age can be very beautiful. The wreckage of man-made objects is something more beautiful than the new. Rust and weathering adds a patina of . . . well, I call it 'elegant gorp'.” - Brett Weston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1520391224372-XXWR147FTS8J7PSMM4N8/Off+With+His+Head+%231.jpg Favorites - Off With His Head #1 The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking round. – Queen of Hearts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1520391393349-Q5D9A82O6C6KASYBUYJT/Roman+Arch.jpg Favorites - Roman Arch Simple is always better. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. -- Andre Gide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1520391503477-18J9FUGN7ZP0LNSALCH1/Iron+Shutters.jpg Favorites - Chew Kee Store Shutters The "Chew Kee" is a Chinese rammed earth structure established as an herb shop during the Gold Rush. "Chew Kee" remains largely intact as one of only four remnants of the once thriving Chinese community in Fiddletown, CA. The shutters and the wire in the window made such a bold graphic statement in my minds eye, but getting it in the print was difficult. I worked on this image off and on for two years. Happiness . . . it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. -- Vincent van Gogh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1520391634912-ER561D48TWRB5IG97A12/Torn+Label.jpg Favorites Most of the time images just pop up in front of me when I least expect it. Somebody once asked Anton Bruckner: "Master, How, when, where did you think of the divine motif of your Ninth Symphony?" Well, it was like this," Bruckner replied. "I walked up the Kahlenberg, and when it got hot and I got hungry, I sat down by a little brook and unpacked my Swiss cheese. And just as I open the greasy paper, that darn tune pops into my head!" - Anton Bruckner http://www.allanculver.com/critters daily 0.75 2023-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1675702626968-021BVWVMNHYWU66EUSY9/Birds+of+a+Feather+Do+Bath+Together.jpg Critters - Birds of a Feather Bathe Together The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1675702626968-021BVWVMNHYWU66EUSY9/Birds+of+a+Feather+Do+Bath+Together.jpg Critters - Birds of a Feather Bathe Together The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1588948868415-VCXZ4CUA7NCNER4QNUTZ/Gathering+Nesting+Material.jpg Critters - Gathering Nesting Material “Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.” - Lisa Kleypas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1685485321368-CHNT1FSY6NXAM2JS2AWO/Blue+Belly+Lizard.jpg Critters - Blue Belly Lizard I am the Lizard King. I can do anything! - Jim Morrison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1676391415024-QD1TH1YGRIL99R5BJD24/Cooper%27s+Hawk.jpg Critters - Cooper"s Hawk The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak. - Edward Abbey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1665845243660-RIIW2A5FLAWYMBZIKTO4/Gray+Fox.jpg Critters - Gray Fox A fox is subtlety itself. — Aristophanes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1661441081658-9H0FFCAZCFI1L28N8H87/image-asset.jpeg Critters - Robin Redbreast Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1632931163542-B1658WSSDYXBELK3S0MX/Point+Lobos+Squirrel.jpg Critters - Point Lobos Squirrel This squirrel followed me around Point Lobos, probably hoping I would have a tasty morsel for him. 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White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1593270040029-PDS5Y028VLKIQYPVDB10/White+Crown+Sparrow%2C+Juvenile.jpg Critters - White Crowned Sparrow, Juvenile I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. - Henry David Thoreau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53c56878e4b0b16e59d72fc2/1593270948434-FMUIF9A9CMPQBPFJZR2H/The+Decisive+Moment.jpg Critters - The Decisive Moment This photograph was pure luck; I never have my camera on motor-drive. So to capture the moment of touch down with one claw and wings folded up, that’s pure luck. But there is something to be said for being prepared. 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