Nature photo class favorites! :)

I have tons of material including these photos coming up as well as four weddings, and a few personal camping and climbing trips to blog about! SOooo behind! I am, however, enjoying my three week summer and taking some time off... so I guess that is my excuse. :) As I mentioned a few weeks ago I took a Nature Photography class last session taught by Ralph Clevenger (ralphclevenger.com). It was so wonderful, full of adventures,camping trips, climbing, and lots of cute little creatures. I even got to do a whole editorial piece on rock climbing. :) An excuse to climb and blame it on school! :)
Here are some of my favorites from the class :)



We found a lady bug hatchery! soo amazing!












This was the most sorrow filled moment of our camping trips... this baby Sealion has fishing line wrapped so tight around its neck that it has been forced to grow around it... resulting in the poor baby's neck to be cut into and become one with it. So so sad. There wasn't anyway to get the fishing line out. It looked as though he just knew he wasn't going to make it and was giving up. We called a marine rescue place... but I don't know if they made it out there in time. :(


This is a Dragonfly larva... underwater!





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