Photography

Photo of a Purple Sandpiper taking a nap.

Here are some of my nature photographs – of birds and arthropods – and some of my astrophotographs. With my wildlife photography, I hope people will gain an appreciation for the natural world and strive to protect natural spaces around them.

Left. Above. This photo I took of a Purple Sandpiper resting on the rocks by the ocean near Rockport, MA was the 2021 Audubon Photography Awards Youth Winner.

Photo of the Sun with many visible sunspot groups.

Photo of the Moon.

Photo of the Orion Nebula.

Photo of the Aurora Borealis during the severe geomagnetic storm on May 10, 2024.

Comet 2024/C3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in the evening light, with a bright tail streaming upward and a dim forward tail below. The globular cluster M72 is visible on the right.

Density of stars in the region of the Milky way around Alpha Cassiopeiae. There are at least 8 open clusters visible in the frame (including M103), and stars as dim as magnitude 15 are resolved.

Photo of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) along with the two dwarf satellite galaxies M110 (above) and M32 (bottom right).

Photo of Jupiter with the four moons Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, and Io.

An HDR composite of the solar corona during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.

Wide-angle view during totality on April 8, 2024.

Photo of a Purple Sandpiper.

Photo of a Northern Parula.

Photo of an Atlantic Puffin.

Photo of a White-breasted Nuthatch.

Photo of a Tufted Titmouse.

Photo of a Gray Catbird.

Photo of a Prothonotary Warbler.

Photo of an Eastern Towhee.

Photo of a Canada Warbler.

Photo of a Hermit Thrush.

Photo of a Mallard.

Photo of a Blue-winged Teal.

Photo of three Primrose Moths.

Photo of a Blue Dasher.

Photo of a juvenile Ptenothrix denticulata.

Photo of a female Golden Jumping Spider.

Photo of a Coenosia tigrina.

Photo of an Eastern Hornet Fly.

Photo of a Red-headed Bush Cricket.

Photo of a Mint-loving Moth.

Photo of a Locust Borer on goldenrod.

Photo of a Condylostylus fly.

Photo of a Homidia socia.

Photo of a Wavy Mucksucker on a goldenrod leaf.

Photo of a Bourletiella arvalis.

Photo of a Wolf spider with young on the back.

Photo of a Leucospis affinis.

Photo of a Sociable Renia.

Photo of a mother Wolf Spider with young on the back.

Photo of a Zabulon Skipper.

Photo of an Archips purpurana.

Photo of a Primose Moth.

Photo of an Elephant Mosquito.

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