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Redwood Photography of Mario Vaden

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: January 26, 2009
I received a comment on my blog entry "High"-perion from Mario Vaden, an arborist and landscaper from Oregon.  He’s put together a remarkable website with photo galleries of remote redwood valleys, including images of Hyperion, the tallest tree in the world. The existence of these photos is impressive, for many of these trees stand far from [...]
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Fourth of July Buggers

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: July 5, 2008
I’m at home in CT for the holiday this weekend. Just having some fun taking closeups of insects and spiders in the yard.  I used the built-in flash on these shots in order to hand hold at very small apertures.  Up this close, the depth of field becomes very shallow, so the small aperture [...]
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Black Swan Pas de Deux

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: December 29, 2007
Hey, guess what?  There are black swans!  According to the Wikipedia article, Cygnus atratus are from Australia.  I took these pictures of one in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. I poked around Wikipedia for something interesting.  Black Swan Pas de Deux is from the third scene of Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake.  "In ballet, a pas de deux [...]
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“High”-perion

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: November 5, 2007
This weekend, I learned that the tallest tree in the world is a coast redwood named Hyperion. He stands a towering 379.1 feet (115.55 meters) tall! The location in a remote region of Redwood National Park is kept secret out of fear tourists would damage the forest’s ecosystem. And what kind of [...]
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Fort Tryon Park Trees

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: August 21, 2007
Here are a couple photos I found while rummaging through my hard drive. I have so many photos to sort through it’s ridiculous. However, trees make me happy so I thought I’d share these. Pentax*ist DS2, 50mm, F2.0, 1/250 Pentax*ist DS2, 24mm, F2.4, 1/60
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The Harpy Cometh

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: August 19, 2007
I heard the call of an Eastern Screech Owl in Connecticut for the first time this evening. It’s a really freaky sound. It was also a bit distant, which made it even freakier. Take a listen to this file courtesy of the Missouri Department of Conservation: Call of the Eastern Screech Owl (mp3) Then [...]
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This is what it sounds like…

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: April 19, 2007
…when doves cry. There was a mourning dove under my air conditioner this afternoon. It’s call sounded like it was in my living room. Up close, the detail in the call sounds a lot more metallic than the soft sound you hear in the distance [mp3], reminiscent of the mechanical whirr of [...]
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