Remembering A Summer Evening ...

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”

      ~ Charles Bowden

         ~ journalist

           ~ 1945-2014

A beautiful summer evening in early August is worth remembering in this serene sepia image I shot on a hillside of the Central Range of the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, the only sound the rustling of the breeze and the chirping of birds. Perfect.

This image, nuanced with a nostalgic mood and captured in summer, my most favorite of seasons, I feel paints the meaning of journalist Charles Bowden’s words, “Summertime is always the best of what might be.”

Monarch In Motion ...

“We live in the world when we love it.”

    ~Rabindranath Tagore

       ~ 1861-1941

A beautiful monarch butterfly savors the waning days of summer as it alights on a buddleia flower on a gorgeous early September afternoon at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

The Whitetails ...

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

                   ~ Vincent van Gogh

                          ~1853-1890

It’s always the sweetest sight of summer to see a white-tailed fawn, and to see two together is twice the joy!

I captured this high contrast monochrome shot of brother and sister twin white-spotted fawns with their mama doe on a gorgeous early September evening in the waning summer as sunset loomed at the park.

One of the fawns I call Buttons, as I photographed him since he was a precious fawn, then a sweet button buck and then a beautiful yearling until he migrated away in January 2020. Along the way I tossed him many apples, which he loved eating. His twin sister is with him in this image, though she was always a bit more shy about posing for the camera.

It’s a true joy and blessing to me personally and as a photographer to have watched these sweet fawns grow.