… one or more of my cameras are used to make photographs of the natural world. Photographs that illustrate the mammals, birds, insects, plants or landscapes that are increasingly imperiled in the modern human-dominated world.
This is the beginning of a new project to present one photograph taken each day for a year. In this project, as in earlier similar projects, the photos will be presented by seasonal quarters – fall, winter, spring and summer. These are the meteorological seasons (fall being the months of September, October and November) since they are more attuned to the natural world than the astronomical seasons that are in common use.
Apparently due to the changing climate late summer and much of the fall were extremely dry. Leaf change was late and the colors were muted, seemingly due to the dry weather. Insects were extremely scarce and birds were hard to find as a result of the dry weather, habitat loss, pesticide use and the changing climate.
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The natural world portrayed in these photographs is at risk from human activities both deliberate and incidental. Even common species can be put at risk, three examples: the introduced chestnut blight fungus killed up to four billion American chestnut trees throughout eastern North America in the last 100 years; the extinction of the passenger pigeon that was said to have numbered in the billions, lost to market hunters and habitat loss; and, more recently, the incipient elimination of all species of ash trees from the eastern part of the continent by the introduced emerald ash borer.
Chestnut is now functionally extinct and the ash trees soon will be, only a handful of scattered living individual chestnut trees remain and the ashes are dying rapidly. The passenger pigeon is totally extinct – gone forever. These and many more species doomed at the hand of humans.
Hopefully you’ve enjoyed viewing the photos and that they may inspire you to do whatever you can to protect the natural world on which we all depend whether we, or those in power, realize it or not.
From the camera traps: 9/12, 9/26
Your pictures are lovely; I am a nature lover but too old to enjoy much outdoors.
ReplyDeleteTHank you so much for all this beauty! I LOVE the winter wren
ReplyDeleteWow, these are all gorgeous photos! A great collection of critters and nature images.
ReplyDeleteThank you for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, have a great weekend.
wow!! you are able to get out every day and photograph so many beautiful birds and all of the glory nature provides. i am a bird lover, all of your images are spectacular and i enjoyed seeing the "bugs/insects" too!! i enjoyed the reminders you provided after the picture, we as humans have been unkind!! ps, i tried to pick a favorite image but it was impossible!! enjoy the rest of your weekend!!
ReplyDeleteI've been through this post at least four times. I'm amazed in all kinds of ways. Your knowledge is so comprehensive, your photos so outstanding, your daily records must be rigorous. It's so inspiring, even though I can no longer get out there to do anything similar. My favourite for content is the Walking Fern, because I have always been fascinated by ferns. My favourite photographically is the 'Colours of Fall'. Well done, and all the work that must have gone into this is deeply appreciated.
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ReplyDeleteThank you all, I'm glad you enjoyed the photos and can't begin to describe how much I enjoyed making these photographs and assembling the post. At 84 and having had a traumatic brain injury last spring, I'm extremely fortunate to be able to get out in forest and field to photograph some of the wonders of the world around us.
Beautiful nature shots! I didn't know some frogs could climb trees.
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