Joe Doherty
@jwdohertyphd
Photographer, husband, father, occasional expert witness when data are involved. Los Angeles. I can walk to Trader Joe's. joedohertyphotography.com
A puku mother nursing her calf in the early morning at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. #photography #wildlifephotography #zambia #southluangwa
Photographs do not lie. This is a healthy tree in the H.R. Giger National Forest, in the Sierra Madre Mountains of California Sur, between the cities of Jimtown and Greenfield. #photography #scifi
Crocodiles are a lot like us. They are vicious, sneaky predators. And they like to soak in a hot spring and watch the sun go down. #photography #wildlifephotography #pangolinchobe
Rapunzel! A young elephant taking an evening dust bath in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. #photography #wildlifephotography #zambia #elephants
"What am I going to do with you?" South Luangwa National Park, Zambia #photography #zambia #baboon #wildlifephotography
Close Air Support If these birds did not exist science fiction illustrators would invent them. They can bullseye womp rats. And then eat them. #photography #wildlifephotography #chobe #botswana
The number of adult elephants flanking a juvenile is inverse to the youngster's age. We saw a two-week old with an entourage of at least six, one of whom bluff charged us several times. If there is a Swift-Kelce child, the security will look like this. #photography #wildlifephotography #okavango
A woodland kingfisher preparing to swallow a dragonfly on the Chobe River, Botswana. #photography #wildlifephotography #botswana #chobe
Today my brother John would have been 62 years old. He died in April 2022. Since he passed I have published a book of my old photographs of him and our family called "The Johnny Chronicles." And I have two solo shows of the images in the next few months, in Fresno and Los Angeles. 1/2
A cattle egret doing the “you’ve got bugs!” dance at the feet of a water buffalo along the Chobe River. #photography #wildlifephotography #botswana
"Well, well - another blond hair. . . . Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?" (brazenly stolen from Gary Larson) #photography #botswana #baboons
A few evenings ago in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. Apparently our safari vehicle was following a little too closely. This is the elephant equivalent of a Yosemite Sam “Back Off!” bumper sticker. We reached an open area about 60 yards up the road and they let us pass. #photography #elephants
There’s a Hip-o-Potamus in my Pool. Sunset in Chobe National Park, Botswana. #photography #wildlifephotography #safari #chobe
Today in the Netherlands it is Koningsdag (King's Day). This photo in Amsterdam was made yesterday, as they were taking the party boats out for a test ride. #photography #amsterdam #koningsdag
Matchsticks. Coole Park Nature Reserve, Ireland. I thought we were going for a walk in the woods, and instead found a hugely important cultural site. #cooleypark #photography
My book The Johnny Chronicles is available at The Village Well in Culver City. A real honest-to- goodness book store!
Dawn in Malibu Creek State Park. I visited the park three times in the last 45 days, and each time it looked like a different place. #photography #landscapephotography #smmnra #malibucreekstatepark #sierraclub
Today my artist page at the TAG Gallery went live. It pleases me. www.taggallery.net/artists#/joe... #photography #art #cowboys #loadingdock #shadows
Poppy Party! My first wildflower photograph of 2026. It reminds me of the days of Kodachrome. #photography #landscapephotography #wildflowers #californiapoppies #superbloom
Spring runoff on the Fresno River, 2024. #photography #landscapephotography #spring #sierranevada #california
Spring Forward! A typical March day in the Santa Monica Mountains. #photography #wildflowers #spring #santamonicamountains #mrca
Playing around with an old photo of fog-bound cypress trees. #photography #mandala #abstract #kaleidoscope
Winter runoff in Malibu Creek State Park. This was once, and may again be, a place where steelhead come to spawn. Removing dams and barriers will restore the flow into Malibu Lagoon, adding sand to beaches, and renewing the ecosystem. #photography #landscapephotography #malibu #californiastateparks
Schist Happens Vishnu Schist along the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. #photography #landscapephotography #grandcanyonnps #AZRA
Disney Hall at dusk. It's been done before, but not by me. #photography #disneyhall #architecture #losangeles
A bee pollinating an almond orchard, Mettler, California. If I move slowly the bees will ignore me, just like the twentysomethings at Trader Joe's ignore me. This allows me to exist among them and take candid photographs. #bees #california #almonds #photography #agriculture
Self-Portrait, Disney Hall in Los Angeles. I assume that when a great architect like Frank Gehry designs a building he anticipates every sightline and every nuance of light. So he probably foresaw me standing there. #photography #selfportrait #disneyhall #losangeles
Another scene from Malibu Creek State Park yesterday morning. The variety of moods and the utility of this place as a stand-in for other places (from Korea to The Planet of the Apes) makes this park a great place to photograph sunrise in every season. #photography #landscapephotography #smmnra