Baby Bunny Today I'd like to share some photos I took of a baby bunny eating grass. These were during a hike at Sawhill Ponds. Enjoy!
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Hiking in Colorado If you're in the front range area you'll frequently see and hear about people hiking. Colorado is a beautiful state of mountains and national forests. I try to bring a camera with me when I go. Here are some scenic pictures from hiking trails. Chautauqua Rabbit Mountain Sawhill Ponds The Anemone Trail
Wildlife Photos of a Bobcat Sometimes you wind up in the right place at the right time. I was driving in the mountains and had gotten out of my car to take pictures of a landscape. To my great fortune, I ended downwind from a bobcat. It wandered up and I was able to get several great pictures before it noticed me and ran away. Here they are: This is the landscape I originally intended to photograph.
Genetic Mutations When you think of foxes you generally think of a red color. But foxes can be several different colors and even change color from season to season. Arctic foxes for example are brown or grey in the spring time and turn white when winter comes. It's a form of seasonal adaptation. Mutations can change a fox's color too. Red foxes can become a silver or black color. These mutations are a result of melanistic color morphs. Melanin is a process that makes a fox’s natural fur color darker through a genetic mutation. It is the absence of light coloring, this is due to a dark-colored pigment called melanin that develops in the skin and hair. Around 10% of wild red foxes have melanistic morphs. I was lucky enough to get photos of a black fox in the wild, although the quality was unfortunately poor. At first I thought it was a skunk but, upon looking at my photos, it turned out to be a...
Colorado Nature Photography I love to hike and drive up in the Rocky Mountains. There's beautiful scenery and plentiful wildlife up there so I always bring my digital camera. Over the years I've developed a pretty good eye for quality shots. You should be working with the rule of thirds. Here are a few landscape photos of Colorado. Maybe later I'll post about when I saw a bobcat or black fox *wink*. Here's Hail Ranch. This trail burned in a wildfire sadly. The Enchanted Mesa Trail at sunrise. This is Sunshine Canyon. And this is the tundra around Trail Ridge Road, higher up than trees can grow. I have many more to share in the future.