I was in at the Mart Barber Shop the other day and took a snap of me in the mirror and a couple of my photographs that have been up on the wall there for a number of years. The one at the left is a Yellow Warbler on a giant tortoise in the Galapagos, and the pelican is from Lake Balboa, a park over in the San Fernando Valley. I took some good photographs in the old days after I got my original Canon Digital Rebel camera in 2004. 
This was a great day and a long time ago, when I was using color slide film. The John Burroughs Association was very kind to show my Backyard Bird Photography book here and even print a photo of yours truly. Wake-Robin is the newsletter of the JBA, and this is the Winter 2015 issue.
Two great desert species seen at the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve the other day. The wren looked like it was gathering nesting materials. The Verdin, well, it was just being a Verdin.
While I was photographing the Hooded Oriole yesterday, I heard the parakeets taking off from down the street. I went outside and panned the camera along with the birds, just catching them in time. I like the trees at the left, gives it a feeling a space, yet it’s contained. Two panoramas below. You can see them moving from right to left as they get closer to the trees.
I really like the composition of this shot, the subject both commanding equal attention, even though the jay is in the foreground. 
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. 
