I gave a lecture on backyard bird photography to the Lancaster Photography Association, which went very well. They’re a great group. The next day, I visited the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve and saw the Joshua trees there. Thanks to Sue Liberto of the LPA for taking me on this journey. 
I heard the voices of the little birds as I walked by this hedge, then got a couple of shots of one of them. The parent showed up a few minutes later to feed them, so I took off. Right off of a main street, too. 
My advance copies arrived on my doorstep two days ago. This photograph was taken moments after I opened the box. It is always a surreal moment when an author sees the first printed copies of his work. In this case, I lucked out. I’m in my garden, where most of the photographs in the book were taken. This book will make a nice catalogue for my exhibition at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute January 13 through March 8, 2015.
Put on by the Western National Parks Association, special thanks to Sophia Wong, events manager at the Santa Monica Mountains Visitor Center at the King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas, October 18. And thanks to Peter Barash for taking these photographs of me and for hanging out all day and helping. I had a lot of fun meeting the people and signing my book.
I ran across this bird recently and thought the fountain in the background was interesting. 
Behind the scenes for instructional purposes. 
