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NEW IMAGES

I'm engaged in different types of photography. In this portfolio, I show some recent images. The newest images are at the top of the stack. Most NEW IMAGES are also posted to one of the other PORTFOLIO pages (i.e., Portraits, Wildlife, Print Media, Research, Grab Bag)

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A  Common Raven demonstrates iridescence. 
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an explorer on Kehoe Beach
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Kevin
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a wave in good light and strong wind: Do you know the word "spindrift"?    (Rodeo Beach, GGNRA)
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cat next door, 2 ways
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portrait 30, blue eyes
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an American Crow teaches feather anatomy
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looking up?
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wet coyote redux   

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portrait 44
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Snooky at f/1.2
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young and confident; Red-tailed Hawk sub-adult
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In the dirt: eye to eye with a Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)

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Smoke obscures the sun / Oakland sky on the evening of September 10, 2020
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Blue-eyed Darner in flight

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Smoke from wildfires darkens and colors the noon sky, taken from the Berkeley hills toward San Francisco on September 9th, 2020.

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Party Lights #51
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A Red-winged Blackbird considers his next flight while resting among mustard flowers.
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Bumblebee; Bombus sp.

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Rara Avis: Very few airplanes were departing OAK on 5/5/2020.
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A bit ostentatious: Red-winged blackbird displays his epaulets in a high-speed flyby. 

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Bay Bridge eastern span tower
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My hand in an INDIGO NITRILE EXAM GLOVE, Bay Bridge western span, Coit Tower as seen at sunrise from Marin County vista point (Sausalito)

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This is my Bay Area Creature of the Month as seen on page 12 of Oakland Magazine for February 2020. 
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morning fog, light and dark

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a moment to think
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green wave, blue sky at Limantour Beach
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turning the page
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a cubist walking on Sacramento Street, San Francisco
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In the sunny garden
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Bus stop across the street, Rockridge Oakland
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Smoking in Brooklyn
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through an airplane window, 7 miles up
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Sanderlings (mostly) at Abbotts Lagoon, Point Reyes

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M.R., a photographer in one of my workshops
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This cobweb was extravagantly decorated with dew drops, and illuminated by the early morning sun. Although the spider is clearly a capable technical artist, the work is tediously jejune; a tepid effigy of a drip-period Jackson Pollock. Obviously.

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I chose the diabolically clever title “4 birds on a wire” because “The Night Watch” had been used, apparently, by someone else. There was another reason: I shot the photo during daytime. (The white disk is the sun, not the moon. It was a foggy morning.)
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Reflection of Webster Street near 21st.
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This is a female "pumpkin spider" (Araneus trifolium) patrolling her web along the Bobcat trail in the GGNRA, Sausalito, CA.
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It looks like a a wasp or bee, but it's a fly. Commonly called "hover flies" or "flower flies", they're in the family Syrphidae.
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The Red Rhombus
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I shot this cover for the summer 2019 issue of Compassion & Choices Magazine.
​www.compassionandchoices.org/
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Bay Area Naturalist/Guide/Tour Leader David Herlocker
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I shot photos of teen Oakland cello prodigy Nick Reeves for Telegraph Media at an August 3, 2019 recital. This photo appeared in the September 2019 issue of Oakland Magazine (below).​
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A Western Gull (1st year) at Kehoe Beach patrols the water's edge.
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Dan Diaz is spokesman and ​advocate for Compassion and Choices. I shot portraits of Dan for the cover of Compassion and Choices' semiannual magazine.

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Painted Lady, Briones Regional Park
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My photo of a female osprey headed this 2-page spread published in the June, 2019 issues of Oakland Magazine and Alameda Magazine. The same article included 3 more of my Bay Area wildlife photos.

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I shot this photo of comedian Scott Vermiere for East Bay Express at a comedy club in 'Uptown' Oakland called "All Out Comedy Theater". Scott was hilarious.
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I photographed this fossil clam shell (Propeamussium) for a study by Prof. Carole Hickman at UC Berkeley / UC Museum of Paleontology.
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Painted Lady; Anza Borrego state park
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Chuckwalla adult male (a big lizard in the Iguana family), taken at Joshua Tree national park.

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This is a White-winged Dove, taken at Anza Borrego state park / Borrego Palm Canyon.
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This is the cover page of an academic paper by Prof. Bill Clemens at UC Berkeley. It was published 2/8/2019 in the journal PaleoBios. I photographed several tiny teeth and jaw fragments, and prepared 9 figures for Dr. Clemens. The image above shows the cover of the 17-page paper.   escholarship.org/uc/item/04r4f1wk

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A Red-tailed Hawk juvenile poses with an old TV antenna.

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Margie Ryan is the Development Director at Bay Nature magazine. ​This is one of a series of staff photos I did for Bay Nature: ​https://baynature.org/staff/
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I'm working on a caption for this one. 
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I shot this portrait of Lake Merritt Dental staff members for an ad in Oakland Magazine.

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...and here is that photo as used from the February, 2019 issue of Oakland Magazine.

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Ellen Weis, Advertising Director of Bay Nature magazine. This is one of a series of staff photos I did for Bay Nature: ​https://baynature.org/staff/

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I shot this portrait of Oakland business owner Felicia Shaw for an article in East Bay Express about Oakland's cannabis equity program. 
​https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/can-the-state-help-oaklands-equity-program/Content?oid=23672657
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almost completely natural
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Wild Turkey; Happy Thanksgiving
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Multiple Minnies (Minnie is my lighting mannequin.)

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model sisters
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Smoke arrives in San Francisco from the Butte County fires (November 11th, 2018)
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Stephanie 1
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Stephanie 2
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Juvenile Red-tailed hawk at Pt. Reyes
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A good day at work
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Common Raven, relaxed but confident
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Dr. Ashley McCaughan of Marina Village Veterinary from a series of photos shot for an ad in Oakland Magazine.
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abstract from fall foliage

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Regina Starr Ridley, Executive Director of the Bay Nature Foundation and Publisher of Bay Nature magazine.
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Victoria Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief of Bay Nature magazine.
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This is a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk. I took the photo at Hawk Hill, Marin Headlands.
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Foot in the sand
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A gull wades in the foamy edges of the Pacific ocean. (There are differences of opinion regarding the ID of this bird. I'm going with 3rd-year Western Gull from someone who knows gulls well, but others have suggested a sub-adult Herring Gull or a Ring-billed Gull.)
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A Common Raven vocalizes, with emphasis.
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This is Diana Gordon, owner of Ketér Salon on 4th Street in Berkeley. We shot photos for an ad in East Bay Express.
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Blue-eyed Darner in flight. (Try that with your iPhone.)
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Tule Elk bull; foggy morning at Pt. Reyes.
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Honey bee on a wild rose
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Eric
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This is Owner/Chef Giuseppe Naccarelli of Trabocco in Alameda, CA. I shot this portrait for ads in Telegraph Media publications.
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Whitney in B+W
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Whitney in color.
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K.J. in B+W.
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K.J. in color.
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My pen matches my shirt.

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Corporate portrait clients Junior and Nancy, owners of Bay Area Bin Support in Oakland

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A Whimbrel, walking decisively.


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I used my "hair toss" image of comedian Liz Grant for my ads in East Bay Express and Oakland Magazine.

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ghost plane
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Dewdrops in a spider web
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Oakland sculptor Clint Imboden

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This is a research image for Prof. Bill Clemens of UC Berkeley. It's a jaw fragment from an animal of the genus Cimolestes, a long-extinct rodent or weasel-like creature. Excavated in Niobrara County​ Wyoming in 1957, it's of late-Cretaceous age, between about 68 and 66 million years old. (This image is included in a book by Lowell Dingus called "King of the Dinosaur Hunters: The Life of John Bell Hatcher and His Discoveries that Shaped Paleontology.")

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A young Black-tailed Deer looks out to sea near the Point Reyes Lighthouse.
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I shot a series of photos for this feature story in the February, 2018 issue of Oakland Magazine. Jon Eldan is the Director of After Innocence, ​a non-profit engaged in Re-Entry Assistance and Advocacy for America's Wrongfully Convicted.
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I'm looking at YOU. My eye itches.
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Lunar eclipse, 1/31/2018
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Man on the street, San Francisco
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White-tailed Kite
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J. E. H., an Oakland business owner
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Turkey Vulture
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Eve Pearlman, President of the Board of Directors, Girls Inc. Alameda / shot for Telegraph Media

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This is a mannequin in the window of FIT, a boutique on College Avenue in Oakland. Photo is for an ad in the East Bay Monthly.
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Steve Wolf, owner of Pacific Coast Brewing Company in downtown Oakland / portrait taken for a story about commercial rents in Oakland Magazine

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A Western Gull poses for a formal portrait at North Beach, Pt. Reyes National Seashore. Ideas for this portrait were inspired by (i.e., "borrowed" from) the 1954 Yousuf Karsh photo of the French poet, dramatist, and diplomat Paul Claudel: http://karsh.org/overview/portraits/#22
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A small wave at North Beach, Pt. Reyes National Seashore
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Artist Lark Calderon-Gomez, editorial shot published by the Marin Independent Journal
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Two Alameda Poets Laureate, Gene and Cathy; editorial shot for Alameda Magazine.
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Publicity shot for Liz Grant, shot prior to her show, "Comedy with Liz Grant and Friends" at the Village Theatre in Danville, CA.

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Kathryn Duke, board co-chair of the Alameda Point Collaborative, shot for Telegraph Media.

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A raven, Pt. Reyes National Seashore
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Good Light

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Gallery owner Michele Hembree, shot for Telegraph Media.

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The shot was later used by Telegraph Media for this article, published in the September issue of Alameda Magazine.
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Headshot for Virginia, a young actress
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SOLAR ECLIPSE, August 21, 2017, taken near Horseshoe Bend, ID

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Great Egret
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Juvenile Black-crowned night heron, just after release by Bird Rescue Center of Sonoma County.
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This is one of two plates that I prepared for Dr. Carole Hickman (UC Berkley, Integrative Biology) to illustrate a paper just published in The Nautilus, a peer-reviewed academic journal.
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a personal portrait for Dr. S
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HEADSHOT for actor Michael C, who has a few auditions coming up.
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Oakland Magazine ad, July 2017.
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My ad in Oakland Magazine for July, 2017

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Andrea of COMPLEMENTS HAIR DESIGN in Alameda, CA.

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Western Grey Squirrel at Arrowhead Marsh (Oakland, CA)

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Monique #1, shot at the Ferry Building in San Francisco.

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Product shot for Icey Cream in Oakland, CA

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Monique #2, shot at the Ferry Building in San Francisco.

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So, did you notice that Steve's eyes are blue? This photo was shot in Palm Springs, CA.

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U.S. COAST GUARD RESCUE HELICOPTER ENCOUNTERS A DIFFICULT SITUATION

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pretty drink

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Harbor Seal at Pt. Reyes

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Patti Wilczek, Executive Director of Community Learning Center Schools in Alameda (shot for a Telegraph Media magazine article)

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Gray Harris of the Alameda Unified School District board (shot for a Telegraph Media magazine article)

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Joseph D.

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A Turkey Vulture dreams about a red ocean

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a male Red-winged Blackbird transforming himself from an ordinary little black bird into a macho, big-shouldered superbird with a King Kong attitude, displaying his puffed-up beautiful red epaulets and singing robustly to attract females (usually several, sometimes as many as ten) to his excellent territory on a pretty stock pond near the shore of Tomales Bay.

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This is a research image made for paleontologist Dr. Carole Hickman at U.C. Berkeley. It shows a detail of a marine gastropod fossil found in Olympic National Park. This snail was alive about 50 million years ago.

I am astounded by the preservation of the delicate nacreous (iridescent) layers... for 50 million years!

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A rather modest "boudoir" photo

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Marshall Krause

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Bridal portrait

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Max, ready for take off

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Erin, Thatcher, and Max

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January 21, 2017

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headshot

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Ring-billed Gull

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Neil 

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Ring-billed Gull

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Portrait: feeling pretty good

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LOOK CAREFULLY, it's a Snowy Egret

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Staff portrait: Emmett Eiland's Oriental Rug Company, for OAKLAND magazine ad campaign.

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