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Got A Teakettle? Leave A Teakettle

Way out in the desert, along a bumpy and rutted dirt road on your way to the Racetrack in Death Valley National Park, is Teakettle Junction. No one really knows how the spot got its name or when but with

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#California #NationalPark #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #OnTheRoad #USA #California #DeathValleyNationalPark #NationalPark #PhotoOfTheDay #TeakettleJunction #travel #USA

Oven Bisect

In one of the older buildings near the Augereberry mining claim in Death Valley is an old, old stove.

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#California #NationalPark #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #California #DeathValleyNationalPark #NationalPark #old #PhotoOfTheDay #rust #stove #travel #USA

The Long View Of Death Valley

From 6300' up on Aguereberry Point in Death Valley is a pretty great view looking South down the length of the park. Badwater Basin and more spreads far, far away.

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#California #NationalPark #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #USA #AguereberryPoint #California #DeathValley #DeathValleyNationalPark #mountains #NationalPark #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA

Life On The Road – End Of A Long Day

Long empty hallways are another repeating theme in my life. When I am out filming for work I often pick hotels that have free breakfast and that usually leads to hotels that look like this: functional, mostly safe, a bit drab, bu

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#NewMexico #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #OnTheRoad #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #hallway #NewMexico #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #TravelPhotography #USA

Western Bluebird

I had a chance to go birding with the LA Birders today up in the San Gabriel Mountains, a location on the back side by Big Pines.

It's not a location I would normally be drawn to, partially because it was 1.75 hours away. But getting up to 7000'+ made

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#Birding #California #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #bird #birding #bluebird #California #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA #WesternBluebird

Western Bluebird

I had a chance to go birding with the LA Birders today up in the San Gabriel Mountains, a location on the back side by Big Pines.

It's not a location I would normally be drawn to, partially because it was 1.75 hours away. But getting up to 7000'+ made the tempe

https://thecareyadventures.com/blog/western-bluebird/

#Birding #California #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #bird #birding #California #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA #WesternBluebird

More and More Layers

Long time viewers of this blog, now in its 21st year, know I love layers. Oka

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#Africa #Alaska #Asia #BritishColumbia #California #Canada #Jordan #MiddleEast #Nepal #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #Oman #USA #Utah #Washington #Alaska #Asia #BritishColumbia #California #Canada #DeathValley #GrandCanyon #jordan #layer #layers #mountains #NationalPark #Nepal #oman #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA #Washington

Western Sandpipers In The Shallows

Sandpipers are for me a difficult lot to identify. I rely on Merlin a lot. Both for the photos identification capabilities and for the audio identification. If not for Merlin, this would likely just be 'sandpipers' to me.

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#Birding #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #Oregon #USA #bird #birding #Oregon #PhotoOfTheDay #sandpiper #shorebird #travel #USA #water #WesternSandpiper

Baby Orcas Are Cute Little Predators

Spotted up in Alaska this May while on assignment with Uncruise Adventures (so happy to have worked with them for 14 years!).

After the sun went down, around 9:45pm, while most people went to sleep I stayed up chatting with the s

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#Alaska #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #KillerWhale #NationalPark #Orca #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #UnCruise #USA #water

Shifting Sands

The amount of images you can bring home from White Sands National Park changes daily with the shifting winds and sands.

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#NationalPark #NewMexico #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #USA #NationalPark #NewMexico #PhotoOfTheDay #sand #travel #USA #WhiteSands #WhiteSandsNationalPark

The Simply Folly Of Trying To See One Bird You Already Saw Before

A "Big Year" in birding terminology is trying to observe tons of different species of birds in a calendar year. It's a personal challenge some birders do and I decided to attempt a Big Y

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#Birding #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #bird #birding #California #EgyptianGoose #folly #geese #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA

Black-chinned Hummingbird

There here in LA for some breeding, meet the Black-chinned Hummingbird! #234 on my 2026 list and mission to observe 500 this year. I need to step it up a bit!

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#Birding #California #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #bird #birding #BlackchinnedHummingbird #California #nature #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA

Zion Rock Patterns

Not all the rock in Zion National Park is red sandstone.

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#NationalPark #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #Utah #details #mountains #NationalPark #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA #Utah #ZionNationalPark

Zion Morning Sun

From the campground in Zion National Park. Pretty easy to enjoy this park without having to hike a hundred miles.

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#Campgrounds #Camping #NationalPark #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #Utah #mountains #NationalPark #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA #Utah #ZionNationalPark

Downtown Chicago On A Fine Day

The sun was shinning, the wind was blowing (not evident in the photo) and the sky was almost cloud free. A great day on the lake in Chicago.

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#Illinois #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #chicago #downtown #Illinois #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA #water #waterfront

Beach Eagle

I imaging this Bald Eagle somehow rode all the way to the beach on their surf log. I might have been out in the sun too long today.

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#Birding #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #OnTheRoad #Oregon #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #BaldEagle #beach #bird #Oregon #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA

Snowy Plovers And Persistence

I didn’t come to Oregon to find Snow Plovers, but once I was near them and knew they existed, I had to find them and add to my 2026 goal of finding 500 species.

It’s not exactly ‘Snowy Plover Season’

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#Birding #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #Oregon #PhotoOfTheDay #StatePark #USA #bird #birding #ColumbiaRiver #PacificOcean #PhotoOfTheDay #PlantainOcean #SnowyPlover #travel #USA

White-fronted Bee-eater

Sometimes the factual names of birds leaves something to be desired. Sure, now I know what this bird eats and what it looks like from the front, but it's so much more than that! I see six colors on this bird and a tail just about as big as the body. It can surely ha

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#Africa #Birding #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #Tanzania #bird #birding #colorful #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #WhitefrontedBeeeater

Lake Manly Panorama

It's a bummer panoramas can't be properly appreciated on most of our screen, especially if you are reading this on a phone. But I still love taking them and working with them in the computer. Someth

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#California #NationalPark #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #Panoramas #PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #USA #California #calm #morning #mountains #NationalPark #panorama #PhotoOfTheDay #still #travel #USA #water

Patagonia Peak

Tracking back up in the fjords around Pia Glacier, I can't even remember which peak this is. The concerning thing for me is the hanging glacier or ice pack that looks like it is about to thunder down a mountain.

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#Chile #OddInterestingAwesome #Patagonia #PhotoOfTheDay #SouthAmerica #Chile #glacier #mountain #moutnains #Patagonia #PhotoOfTheDay #travel

I Don’t Know Why It’s Cool To Walk Behind A Waterfall

I don't know why it is fun to walk behind a waterfall, but I sure enjoy it especially when there is no one around.

At Silver Falls State Park in Oregon there is a trail that leads you to ten waterfall

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#NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #Oregon #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #Waterfall #Oregon #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA #WalkBehind #waterfall

Circling The Icebergs

Fresh from Alaska, where the cold winds blow and the icebergs flow.

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#AerialPhoto #Alaska #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #USA #aerial #AerialPhoto #Alaska #art #kayaking #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA #water

Wilson’s Warbler

Soon all the birds with people's names in them will be changing, at least in the US. I'm wondering what the Wilson's Warbler will become? Bad-toupee Warbler?

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#Alaska #Birding #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #bird #birding #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA #warbler #WilsonsWarbler #yellow

Racetrack Grandstand Mirage

If you don't like your car too much, take a drive down to the Racetrack in Death Valley National Park. It's a dry lakebed that sometimes has mysterious rocks roving the playa.

Out in the middle(ish) is a rock outcropp

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#California #NationalPark #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #California #DeathValley #mountains #NationalPark #PhotoOfTheDay #Racetrack #travel #USA

White Ibis Giving Me A Stare-down

Here in LA we don't have a lot of ibises so I enjoy them when travels, birding or work or vacation, take me to where they live. In this case, the Everglades of Florida.

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#Birding #Florida #NationalPark #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #USA #bird #birding #Everglades #EvergladesNationalPark #florida #NationalPark #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #USA #WhiteIbis

Through The Open Tunnel

Way out at Dry Tortugas National Park, a set of keys 70 miles from Key West, there is a fort that never saw battle. Sometimes it was a prison and now it is a National Park. Bricks were brought from the ma

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#Florida #NationalPark #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #brick #DryTortugas #DryTortugasNationalPark #florida #fort #light #NationalPark #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #tunnel #USA

Tracking Through The Sands

Around the US West there are seemingly random pockets of sand dunes. This set is close to the Nevada/California border and are a favorite for the ATV crowd. Calle the Big Dunes, they are maybe 300' all and on BLM land.

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#AerialPhoto #Nevada #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #BigDunes #nevada #offhighway #PhotoOfTheDay #recreation #SandDunes #travel #USA

Weird Shapes In The Alabama Hills

A quick note that if you decide to fly a drone in the Alabama Hills, you need to get a permit from the Bureau of Land Management in Bishop. The good news is they are nice people.

And it's the only way you

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#AerialPhoto #California #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #AerialPhoto #AlabamaHills #California #drone #mountains #PhotoOfTheDay #travel #WeirdRocks

A Second After The Mergansers Dove Down

It's not always about getting the birds in frame. Sometime, like this time, I was more captured with the abstract reflections on the lake but decided to keep in the trails the birds left

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#Abstract #California #Featured #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #abstract #birding #California #DiazLake #lake #PhotoOfTheDay #reflection #travel #USA #water

Alabama Hills And The Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains

It turns out you need a permit to fly a drone in the Alabama Hills so I went through the process last year. The permit is only good for a year s

https://thecareyadventures.com/blog/alabama-hills-and-the-eastern-sierra-nevada-mountains/

#AerialPhoto #California #NorthAmerica #OddInterestingAwesome #PhotoOfTheDay #USA #AlabamaHills #California #formations #mountains #PhotoOfTheDay #rocks #sierra #SierraNevadaMountains #travel #USA