Magnolia Garden in the National Arboretum has a collection of different species and different colors of magnolia trees and when the blossom peaks this week (more or less coincide with the cherry blossom in Washington) it is just beautiful.
All posts filed under: Nature
White Egret
I was very happy to see a beautiful white egret showed up in my nearby Lilypons Water Gardens today. Hopefully, it is a sign of the coming of spring. I took these pictures using my new Nikon Coolpix P900 camera which has up to 2000 […]
Capturing the Golden Hour Light at Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon is one of the most visited National Parks in the Nation. It is an immense and vast canyon and very impressive when looking down from the Rim to Colorado River. However, one can not appreciate the magnificent beauty of the Canyon unless you […]
Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona
Photographing in Antelope Canyon is both fun and challenging. We took the 2-hour Photo Tour to Lower Antelope Canyon last week. With a great tour guide and not a big crowd we were able to use our tripod to shoot some scenes we liked. Hope […]
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona (12 Images)
Petrified Forest National Park was established in 1906 to preserve and protect the petrified woods for scientific research – see the link http://www.nps.gov/pefo/learn/nature/petrified-wood.htm for the information of how petrified woods come to being. It is not just about petrified woods but the spectacular landscape especially […]
Painted Desert in Arizona
We visited Painted Desert of Petrified Forest National Monument in Arizona last week and were very fortunate to catch the late afternoon sunlight before the Park closing. We toured the same place three years ago around noon time when we stopped by on the way […]
Red-shouldered Hawk
It was 8 degrees (-13 degrees C.) when I woke up this morning and there was the “resident” red-shouldered hawk perching on the top of tree branch under the beautiful golden morning light. How could anyone resist in capturing the scene!
“Cat Village” in Northern Taiwan (13 images)
When I visited Taiwan last November we did a photo shoot in a small mountain village called Monkey Cave, an abandoned coal mining village. However, we did not see one single monkey but hundreds of cute cats roaming around everywhere in the village – in […]
Snow Geese Migration to Delaware – 2014.12.19.
These pictures of snow geese were taken near Bombay Hook and Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuges, Delaware on December 19, 2014. The migration of snow geese usually began in October and the number of birds has reached to 100,000 in these refuges according to the […]
Stephen Hung Photography 