Nature.

11 POSTS.

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. October 2026. 80% 7.93mb DSC_2225 October 2026. 4.35mb DSC_2530 (3) October 2026. 99% 7.59 mb DSC_2790 October 2026. 99% 7.17mb DSC_2853 (1) October 2026. 79% 7.95 mb DSC_3411 (2) October 2026. 5.36 mb DSC_3430…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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My Nature Photography: MAUI Hawaii, May 1988.

FEATURE image: West Maui Mountains, Maui, Hawaii, May 13, 1988. Photographs and Text ©John P. Walsh May 1988 — Ka’anapali Beach, Maui, Hawaii. Along the distant shoreline sits the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa, its low, terraced profile set against the cloud‑laden ridges of the West Maui Mountains (Mauna Kahalawai). May 1988 — Road to Hana, Maui,…

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In Bloom: Photographs of Flowers, Parks, and Gardens.

FEATURE image: May 2018. Orchids. All photographs and text ©John P. Walsh. Through photography, flowers and gardens are presented not simply as decorative subjects but as living expressions of beauty, creativity, memory, and renewal, offering a direct and enduring connection between human experience and the natural world. My entire life I have always enjoyed being around…

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