I recently updated my note card offerings with five new images (above and below). These note cards are a great way to communicate with friends and family. Ideal for any occasion, each folded 5 x 7 inch note card features one of my popular images on the front with blank inside pages. A box contains eight cards and eight white envelopes.
I recently discovered while “googling” my own photography that one of my bald eagle images from the Chilkat River (seen above) was selected as one of the top 100 images in the Audubon magazine 2011 photo contest. I entered the image along with a few others and never heard back concerning the contest results. While it is not worth shouting from a mountain top it is nice to know that one of my images at least caught the eye of judges.
My image of bald eagles fighting is the fifth image in the slideshow of the 2011 Audubon Magazine Photo Awards Top 100.
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Images of bald eagles photographed by yours truly on the Chilkat River in Alaska have been published in the November 2013 edition of Natural History.
The magazine, founded in 1900, publishes stories on expeditions and research by curators at the American Museum of Natural History and other science and natural history museums. My favorite science guy, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, writes occasionally for the magazine.
One of the two images published was an image of over 50 bald eagles sitting in the cottonwood trees along the Chilkat River. The magazine’s art director, Steve Black presented that photo as a double page spread. The other photo was of group of eagles feeding on salmon. The images and short story by Erin Espelie about why the bald eagles come to the Chilkat appeared in the “Natural Moments” feature that appears in the front portion of the of the magazine. Erin’s story also included information about me and the focus of the work that I have been doing in southeast Alaska.
The November 2013 issue of Natural History is available at Barnes & Noble stores now or as an in-app purchase for the iPad at the iTunes store .
According to the Ecology Alaska website, one of the bald eagle researchers I photographed tagging bald eagles last fall, Rachel Wheat, was recently awarded a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The award will fund her work tagging and tracking bald eagles for the next three years. Congratulations Rachel!
One of the things I thought interesting about her work last year was that she and others on her team funded their research in a novel, non-traditional way through the crowd-funding website, Kickstarter. I thought crowd funding research was an innovative idea when she told me about it. Also somewhat unusual, she and others on the Ecology Alaska team produce a website with detailed field reports on the progress of their research and what it is like doing field research in the wilds of Alaska.
RIGHT: Rachel Wheat, a graduate student at the University of California Santa Cruz, poses for a photo with bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) “4P” before releasing the bald eagle back into the wild. Wheat is conducting a migration study of the bald eagles that visit the Chilkat River for her doctoral dissertation. She hopes to learn how closely eagles track salmon availability across time and space. The bald eagles are being tracked using solar-powered GPS satellite transmitters (also known as a PTT – platform transmitter terminal) that attach to the backs of the eagles using a lightweight harness. A handmade leather hood is placed over the bald eagle’s eyes to keep the bird calm. Leather booties cover the bald eagle’s powerful talons to protect researchers during the process of taking measurements and attaching the GPS satellite transmitter.
Learn more about Wheat’s bald eagle research on the Ecology Alaska website.
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