Touching Light Photography
@touchinglight
Occasional photographer - nature and landscape. Prints are available ... contact through BlueSky. PhD mol. biologist/pharm/sci bus dev., woodworker. I'm acutely aware of and concerned about climate change! *Happily married!* *Øporn!*
Mt. Adams rises above TakhLakh Lake in WA state, July 2026.
A Rufous hummingbird approaches Lucifer Crocosmia blooms to feed.
A female Osprey doing a little nest remodeling to her nest on the lower Snohomish River in Everett, WA.
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It is about learning to dance in the rain.”
"Where flowers bloom, there is hope." - First Lady Lady Bird Johnson
The honeybees are *finally* returning to my garden. There have been very few in our area this year. Very few pollinators of any type.
Two more shots of "little magicians" that float on air:
Another visitor to my yard, a Black-Capped Chickadee:
Another common visitor to our yard, a Dark-Eyed Junco:
Just 15 feet from my front door, a world of magic unfolds each morning this time of year.
Okay, gotta bore you with hummers. It IS that time of year, and I only have to walk about 15 feet from my front door. Guess I'm just lazy.
The agility of hummingbirds never ceases to amaze me. This is an Anna's hummingbird, doing a quick body flip to fly back to the flowers it was just feeding on.
The Crocosmia are now in full bloom - and the hummingbirds are beginning to notice!
Shortly after creating and "planting" several "garden post signs" with favorite quotes, a Hairy Woodpecker decided to check out one of my posts and tried to peck at it, finally deciding that it wouldn't find any insects there...
Adult and juvenile Bald Eagles on the Skagit River, WA state.
The light was not pretty today in the Skagit flats of WA state, but I was out for a while. Here are two photos of Red-Tailed Hawks. In the left photo, there is a mouse in the hawk's left talon. On the right, the hawk was standing on one leg on a post a long way out (1200mm focal length).
An old barn in the Skagit flatlands of Washington state.
These large format acrylic prints are a lot of work. This print is 22" x 40" and is mounted on 1/4" acrylic. The print is first made on a metallic paper substrate, then an optically clear adhesive is bonded to the face of the print, then the print is bonded to the acrylic 1/2
I will be at a local protest rally this morning/afternoon...
I traveled up to the Skagit flats in WA this afternoon. Too early for the snow geese and the swans, and fall colors haven't really kicked in yet, but it was a beautiful day! (Mt. Baker is the snow covered peak in the photo on the right.
An old photo that I took way back in 2010, of an American Pika near Mt. Shuksan, WA state.
A small forest scene about 1000 feet from my home that we pass on our daily walks.