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View from Japanese bullet train window
I’m not sure exactly where I was when I took today’s photo last year. What I do know is I was riding on the shinkansen (新幹線) between Fukuoka (Hakata) and Hiroshima at more than 150 miles per hour. I was probably near or between the Shin-Iwakuni (新岩国), Tokuyama (徳山), or the Shin-Yamaguchi (新山口) stations.
Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy from rural Oregon
Red-tailed hawk in Southern Oregon (2014)
I captured this image last weekend in Beatty, Oregon.
Bald eagle in flight
Last year a friend tipped me off to a bald eagle nest on their property an hour east of Klamath Falls, Oregon. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a long lens with me to shoot it properly. So when we went for a visit this past weekend I brought my 300mm lens and a 1.7X teleconverter to extend my reach to about 500mm.
When we arrived at the nest the eagle was sitting in the tree. However, by the time I got my equipment together the eagle was in flight and heading quickly away from me. I revisited the nest a couple more times on the trip and the results were similar on each visit. This eagle wanted nothing to do with me. I saw it on each occasion, but it split when it saw me coming and didn’t return while I waited.
Today’s photo is the best I could do, and this is a 100% crop. The eagle was really nowhere near me when I took this. Maybe next time he’ll have offspring in the nest and be more willing to stick around.
Pacific Ocean Sunset
Anthony Rizzo of the Chicago Cubs
With 29 home runs through yesterday’s game, Anthony Rizzo has been one of the few bright spots on the Cubs this season. Rizzo hit a sacrifice fly a moment after I took today’s photo earlier this month at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado.