One of those beautiful early spring or late winter rain-turns-to-snow days arrived here in the Panhandle on Monday. The snow flakes turned large and the evening light allowed a few photos through the windows. A mallard breeding pair has used our block for some years and Monday’s snow caught them …
After my convoluted and twisting blog about photography, here is one devoted to helping all of us take better photos: Learn from our mistakes! Yesterday, while visiting a rancher friend in the Bridgeport area about access for photography, he mentioned that “the owls were nesting” — Great horned owls in …
Looking through a small book devoted to 12 war photographers — from Roger Fenton covering the Crimean War to others, including Margaret Bourke-White, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and Robert Capa wouldn’t normally be an introductory paragraph to a blog about hiking with a camera. And I can’t recall Robert Capa …
LINCOLN, Neb. — The South Shore Lake access point at Lewis and Clark State Recreation Area will be partially closed for improvements beginning April 4, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. The trail system will remain accessible. The project includes the construction of two rock jetties to decrease …
Our son Brad sent a few jpegs this past week of birds visiting his backyard in Omaha. The Cooper’s Hawk feeding near his patio window reminded me of several encounters with the hawks here at home in Alliance. In the last month, my wife Marlene and I were surprised to …
Game and Parks Commission Wildlife Division crew, Scottsbluff Conservation Officer Scott Brandt, volunteers and other Commission staffers used a period of very cold temperatures this winter to draw roving bands of bighorn sheep into a baited drop net trap on Cedar Canyon Wildlife Management Area southwest of Gering and Scottsbluff. …
I returned to the North Platte this week, looking for the Sandhill cranes that were noticeably absent last week and to see the impacts of high water on the North Platte from upstream releases. This week’s blog even had a working title: What a difference a week makes”. Sitting here …
Returning from Ogallala to Alliance on Sunday, we found thousands of sandhill cranes in the snow covered meadows near Lewellen and others flying overhead. Wednesday was my day to return to photograph the cranes, but a complete change in the weather — high blue skies and snow-melting temperatures — and the …
John Albert Lundgren of Axtell, Nebraska, always loved hunting and by the age of 14 started making decoys. In 1935, when live call birds became illegal he set out to design high-quality full-bodied decoys of his own. His earliest, in the 1920s and 1930s, were Canada goose floaters crafted out …
Pictures of thinning operations in July of 2010 and burning of slash piles in February of 2011 at Smith Falls State Park.
-->by Mike Groenewold In the last issue of Landscape Notes, we mentioned Smith Falls State Park near Valentine has easily viewable aspen trees near the highest waterfall in the State. We hope you will visit the park and enjoy the short walk to see the trees and the falls sometime-you …
