by Kevin Shank | Sep 1, 2023 | 2023, 09 September, End of the Trail
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Learn how this photo of lightning over the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, was taken in the September Study Guide, “The Photo Focus.” Photo © Adrian Shank.
by Kevin Shank | Sep 1, 2023 | 2023, 09 September, Fill-In-The-Blanks, Matching, Puzzle, Study Guide
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by Kevin Shank | Sep 1, 2023 | 2023, 09 September, Articles & Stories, Study Guide, The Photo Focus
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Lightning flickered in the west. Invisible waves of wind rocked the treetops. Would it rain? The dry ground could use it.“If there is a storm tonight, I might leave when it is over and go to Salt Fork,” Steven...
by Kevin Shank | Sep 1, 2023 | 2023, 09 September, Bears, Birds, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Favorite Focus, Flycatchers, Focus Illustrated, Hummingbirds, Insects & Arachnids, Mammals, Study Guide, The Photo Focus, Warblers
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by Kevin Shank | Jun 1, 2023 | 2023, 06 June Readers' Issue, Articles & Stories, Beetles, Focus Illustrated, Insects & Arachnids, Study Guide, The Photo Focus
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide I took this HDR panorama just after sundown at a field with a beautiful mixture of Indian paintbrushes and Texas Bluebonnets. I used six individual HDRs and Affinity Photo to make this final panorama. This photo illustrates...
by Izzy Hass | Jun 1, 2023 | 2023, 06 June Readers' Issue, Articles & Stories, Birds, Chickadees & Titmice
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Black-capped Chickadee and lightning. It was dark and very late at night. The little feathered chickadee had long since fluffed his feathers and gone to sleep. But a storm was coming. The little chickadee sensed this with that...
by Kevin Shank | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, 11 November, Birds, Favorite Focus, Gamebirds, Mammals, Plants & Fungi, Reptiles & Amphibians, Stilts and Avocets, Study Guide, The Photo Focus
View the November 2022 Nature Friend Study Guide Male Spruce Grouse. Photo © Lois Tschetter. I got my second lightning shot while we were visiting in Haiti. I was really hoping I could at least get one lightning photo before we left. Finally, the last night we were...
by Kevin Shank | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, 08 August, Beetles, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Focus Illustrated, Insects & Arachnids, Study Guide, The Photo Focus
by Kevin Shank | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, 08 August, Birds, Favorite Focus, Hawks, Eagles, & Kites, Insects & Arachnids, Study Guide, The Photo Focus
by Kevin Shank | May 13, 2021 | 2021, 06, June Readers' Issue, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Creation Close-ups, Plants & Fungi
