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FEATURE IMAGE: Cockatoo, Hyatt Regency Maui, Maui, Hawaii. My Nature Photography: MAUI Hawaii, May 1988. (20 Photos).
lilac blossom (FLOWERS & GARDENS); Iao Needle, Iao Valley State Park Monument (MAUI HAWAII); prairie burn (ANIMALS LAND SEA &SKY).
My Nature Photography: FALL II.
FEATURE image: October 2024. Saturday, November 30, 2025 is the snowiest November day in Chicago’s recorded history, National Weather Service says.
My Nature Photography: ANIMAL WORLD.
FEATURE Image: July 2024. deer. St. Joseph Creek. 7.62mb 0479 (1)
My Nature Photography: 2024 CICADAS! red-eyed insects of 17-year Brood XIII and 13-year Brood XIX emerge together from hibernation for the first time since 1803 in President Thomas Jefferson’s first term.
FEATURE Image: June 8, 2024 6.87mb 8154 Since late May 2024 Illinois has been the epicenter of an historic emergence of two broods of trillions of cicadas whose buzzing presence is expected to continue into July. The Northern Illinois Brood (Brood XIII) came out of the soil on schedule during its 17-year cycle. In 2024 there…
My Nature Photography: SPRING II.
FEATURE Image: June 2023 85% 7.86 mb. “Storm line breaking over the fields as the last light pushes through.”
The fascination of the Total Eclipse of the Sun.
FEATURE image: Viewers near Chicago, Illinois, of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, April 8, 2024. Author’s photograph. All rights reserved. On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse crossed North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The path of the eclipse first entered into Mexico then into the United States…
My Nature Photography: SPRING I. (101 Photos).
FEATURE image: Downers Grove, Illinois. April 20, 2017 7.31 mb 99%
My Nature Photography: WINTER. (98 Photos).
FEATURE Image: February 2018. Downers Grove, Illinois. 3.05 mb
Nature in Line and Color—Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Master of Ukiyo‑e.
FEATURE image: Memorial Portrait of Hiroshige, 1858, Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō and his vertical format landscape series One Hundred Views of Edo. His subjects are an expansion of the ukiyo-e genre, adding to its usual focus…
My Nature Photography: SUMMER.
FEATURE image: July 2021. Farmer’s market. Downers Grove, Illinois 7.90 mb 79% “Shoppers pause at the produce stand, comparing squash, beans, and berries under a midmorning canopy.” “A shaded porch, soft light and a ‘76’ flag stirring above the garden’s early‑summer bloom.” “Color blocks and bus lines frame the morning market, a grid of tents…
My Nature Photography: MAUI Hawaii, May 1988. (20 Photos).
FEATURE image: West Maui Mountains, Maui, Hawaii, May 13, 1988. Photographs and Text ©John P. Walsh Ka’anapali Beach, Maui, Hawaii, May 13, 1988. Road to Hana, Maui, Hawaii, May 13, 1988. Cockatoo, Hyatt Regency Maui, Maui, Hawaii, May 13, 1988. Bronze Buddha, Thailand, 19th Century, Maui, Hawaii, May 13, 1988. Bodhisattva,Hyatt Regency Maui, Maui, Hawaii, May…
My Nature Photography: FLOWERS PARKS GARDENS.
FEATURE image: May 2018. Orchids. All photographs and text ©John P. Walsh. My entire life I have always enjoyed being around flowers and gardens. I started taking photographs of them in 2012. With so many other people everywhere, I have always enjoyed visiting and walking among the beautiful fragrances of earth’s bountiful and beautiful flora. Dangling,…
History and reportage of the amazing natural event of May 18, 1980: the eruption of MOUNT ST. HELENS, Washington.
FEATURE image: Phreatic or steam-blast eruption from the summit crater of Mount St. Helens on April 6, 1980. USGS/Public domain. By John P. Walsh, May 18, 2016. “Nobody lies about her lodestone any more. She burned and destroyed the whole park! Killed people too – what a pity! Only scientists are out there now. What’s there to see,…
