Larry Engles Nature Photography: Featured Galleries and Collections

Recent Bird and Wildlife Photos

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:24:53 GMT

Recent bird photos are put here and in their permanent gallery. They are removed from here after an arbitrary length of time.

Recent Photos

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:31:34 GMT

Recent photos (other than birds) are put here and in their permanent gallery. They are removed from here after an arbitrary length of time.

Photo of the Week

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:32:18 GMT

My pick for photo of the week. Past weeks' picks will remain for up to a year. I update this every once in awhile, so it will not be exactly weekly, but will be more than monthly - at least that is the plan.

The Palouse

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:01:55 GMT

These were taken the first week of June. Photos will be added for awhile as there are a LOT to process. It is populated with many very friendly folk who made the visit much more than just taking photos.

Ice Age Floods

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:59:43 GMT

Around 13,000 years ago, Lake Missoula was one of the largest freshwater lakes in the history of the world. It was formed by glaciers plugging the outlet of what is now Lake Pend Oreille in Northern Idaho. When the water got deep enough, the ice floated and the dam burst. It might have been the biggest flood in the earth's history.

Lake Pend Oreille (a very very large lake) is the tiny remnant of what is referred to as Lake Missoula (the lake was 900 feet deep at Missoula, which was 160 miles upstream).

The water volume discharge rate is estimated as 200 times the maximum ever measured flood volume of the Mississippi River and 750 times the average discharge of the Amazon River!

The photos in this gallery are of land affected by the lake and the floods. I hope you enjoy viewing them.

Southern Oregon, Oct 09

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:05:33 GMT

These photos are from a 10 day trip to Klamath Falls in southern Oregon. It will take a few weeks to put this folder together.

Skagit Flats Tulip Fields

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:01:05 GMT

These are all photos from the spring of 2010. The Skagit Flats are in the northwest corner of Washington state and are famous for their tulip fields. A tulip festival lasts for the month of April.

Hummingbirds on Marrowstone

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:36:01 GMT

I had the good fortune to visit an incredibly active hummingbird feeder. These are all shots taken when the hummingbird backed away from the feeder. In some cases, the feeder has been removed to eliminate the distraction.

I have made my best guess on females versus sub-adult males. If you know better, please leave a comment.

At one point, while I was looking through the lens, I felt something brushing my hand (which was at my side). I looked down to see a little hummer about 6 inches from my hand. It had clearly come all the way to my hand and brushed me with its wings. Really a neat experience.

Coulees in Washington state

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:56:18 GMT

Photo gallery from 3 day visit to the Grand Coulee (Upper and Lower) and Moses Coulee (10 miles west of Grand Coulee).

This is a companion gallery to the Ice Age Floods gallery.

Moses Coulee was the first of the two coulees formed by outflow from ancient Lake Columbia (into which the Lake Missoula floods emptied). It was used only for a short while (geologically speaking) before an ice lobe sealed it. Then the Grand Coulee was used for a longer while.

It has been 13,000 years since water flowed through Grand Coulee and even longer since it flowed through Moses Coulee. Neither coulee has a river or stream running through it now.

It is really fun to let your imagination go here. Imagine a flood so big that Grand Coulee overflowed - by a lot, not just a little - to the tune of several hundred feet over the top for miles and miles in width (hundreds of miles if my reading is accurate).

Seattle

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:55:01 GMT

John Day Painted Hills

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:56:19 GMT

John Day region in North-central Oregon includes the John Day Painted Hills. The hills are colored clay from lava flows 30 to 40 million years ago. The clay is so dense it is completely unhospitable to plants and thus is bare.

The initial photos are from a visit in late May of 2010. This was during an unusually wet period. During wet periods, the clay color intensifies and a few grasses and plants show color.

The wind farm is around the Columbia River gorge south to Condon Oregon.

Malheur NWR/Burns - 2010

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:29:43 GMT

These photos are from a visit to the Great Basin with Dan Streiffert (http://danstreiffert.smugmug.com/) in Oregon the last week of May 2010. Malheur NWR and Burns are both in the Great Basin.

Comments and corrections are always appreciated!

From the smaller world

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:04:50 GMT

Photos from insects and bugs and small flying things.

These photos became possible with the addition of a Canon 70-200 F2.8 lens. I use an extender (2X) and extension tubes to get close to small creatures.