365: A study. One year of images taken only with a smart phone.

Here are a few images that have made the cut as I am beginning to go through the thousands of images I shot with my HTC smartphone.

Caughlin Ranch Fire: In Pictures

24 hours, 1700 + acres burned, 21 homes lost, another 20 damaged, 450 people on the crew doing extraordinary work. Reno Nevada 11/18/2011

Brian Dallas Stocking. Yes on the east coast and preparing for departure. I'm nervous. He's my brother & only have half of what it means if it were a son.

Its been a while since posting.
My brother is being shipped off to Afghanistan.

Three Little Birds

Three Little birds outside my door step.


A mother robin diligently makes her nest just outside my back porch rain gutter. Everyday I see the progress as she flies back and forth with whatever material she was making the nest out of. It was a 50/50 deal as half of what she brought over would end up on the neighbors' driveway. This went on for about a week back & forth, tap, tap, tap it into place, back & forth and form the nest. Every so often during the times when she was really hustling she would perch on a tree and look out, look at her nest and continue on.


A couple weeks pasted and soon I was hearing the chirps of new chicks. Growing fast and sounding off every time Robin would fly back with Big Fat worms. A lot of the time she does stop in the adjacent tree and look towards the nest and observe the surroundings. I am trying to catch her on film in this spot with the worms hanging out of her mouth.

I had thought for a week about taking some photos of the nest but always hesitated as I did not want to disturb Robin. I keep a potted garden on the back deck [with Kentucky Bleu Grass and such] so I am always out there tending to it. All the while Robin feels no threat just 3 feet away. AND The day I decided to take some shots was a good day. At first I had thought there were only 2 chicks but after close review of the photos I see there are three.

6.5.09 I hung my waist and camera off the side of the railing and started photographing. The nest is perched on top of the rain gutter and drapes down off it. The detail shot of the nest exhibits the most incredible mud nest I have seen up close.


6.13.09 It seems the birds have grown quickly and grown out of their nest.
I enjoyed watching Robin for the 5 weeks she was taking care of her three little birds. The chirping on my door step was soothing and serene.
One of life's joys of nature.

A Day on The Road

For me photography is a means of expressing my passion of objects and architecture [as in the ironworks red barn with all the branding metals etched into the main door, and
a way of celebrating the poetry of nature[ as in the flock of birds flying above Washoe Valley or the rainstorm out of Carson Valley south], and
the handy work of man [the 395 span in construction for good reason].
~s

Desert Bloom