Birding Business Article on Backyard Bird Photography published
Balloon and girl; and Godzilla
At the balloon store yesterday. I like the girl better.
A closer view of me with six of the Backyard Bird Photography books
Learning to highlight the subject so the subject doesn’t get lost in the background.
Songwriter Stephen Kalinich with Backyard Bird Photography
My friend Steve wrote the great song “Little BIrd” for the Beach Boys with Dennis Wilson. “Little bird up in a tree looked down and sang a song to me of how it began.”
In the garden a couple of days ago
The setup with the hummingbird feeder (hidden behind me in the first photo) and the lavender background. Working on the Black-chinned Hummingbird female, who has gotten used to me and doesn’t fly off when I’m standing six feet away. Yesterday, I went toward the feeder to clean it off just as she was arriving, then she flew off to the right, into the orchid tree. I went back to the camera and in a flash, she landed on the feeder. She knows where I’m going. 
Northern Mockingbird fledglings in Santa Monica
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. 
