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Sagauro cactus at sunset, Fountain Hills, Arizona.

A Northern Pintail in Phoenix, Arizona.  (more…)

The Phoenix, Arizona skyline a little before sunrise. (more…)

Hot air balloons preparing to lift off this morning over the lake in Fountain Hills, Arizona.  This is a fun event to watch, many of the balloonist actually dipped their baskets into the lake as they crossed it.  (more…)

Saguaro Cactus at sunset in McDowell Mountain Regional Park, Arizona.

I can’t visit Fountain Hills, Arizona and not photograph the World’s largest fountain!  The last light of sun is illuminating the top half of this impressive fountain.  (more…)

I spent the morning photographing landscapes in the McDowell Mountain Regional Park, but I couldn’t pass up two Cardinals who kept flying around near me.  (more…)

Fresh rain brought out the subtle colors in these mostly leafless trees in the Verde River east of Phoenix, Arizona.

It rained on and off yesterday, but the rain gave way briefly to an incredible, complete rainbow over the Verde River.  The people camping next to us thought it was the brightest rainbow they had ever seen, it was certainly bright.

I’m back to posting photos. 

We have now moved up to the Phoenix area.  I was almost dreading this portion of our travels because of the big city, traffic etc., but surprisingly, this has turned out to be one of my favorite locations on this trip.

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If you read my last post, you know I was forwarding select Google searches for porn related terms directly to the FBI website.  I even had teen searches going to the FBI page on sexual predators.  Well that lasted less then a day - I see those re-direct pages are no longer receiving hits, apparently they aren’t showing up in search results.  I didn’t think it would last long.  Unfortunately my stats software doesn’t show outgoing links - I was curious as to how many people I actually forwarded. 

If you read my blog a couple of days ago, you will know I was happy to finally exceed 8,000 visitors in a single day.  Well today I took another peak at my stats and was shocked to see the following day I exceeded 10,000 visitors, and the day after that I exceeded 14,000 visitors!  As much as I would have liked to believe the world was finally discovering my photography, I knew these numbers were not realistic.  Internet growth happens very slowly. 

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A Mourning Dove drinking from the pond at first morning light.

A male Cardinal - what a colorful bird!

A photo of a Pyrrhuloxia.  (more…)

On Monday, our website www.wildnatureimages.com exceeded 8,000 visitors for the first time!  It isn’t uncommon for a busy weekday to exceed 7,000 visitors - but we had yet to exceed the 8,000 visitors in one day mark.  According to Alexa, right now we now have the second most visited website for stock photographers.  Thank you for visiting this blog and our photo website! 

This photo of a female Cardinal is from the Pond at Elephant Head in Amado, Arizona. (more…)

Giant Panda at the San Diego Zoo. (more…)

This is a Peacock at the San Diego Zoo.  And I thought the Wood Duck were colorful!  (more…)

A visitor and gorilla share a brief glance at the San Diego Zoo.