Greetings. Today (6 June 2006) I stumbled on this Web site while searching for locations of the Pine Barren Frog. These pages looks very nice, interesting and comprehensive. In my free time I do quite a bit of photography, including birds and places in the Pine Barrens. I'm a member of the Stay Focused Photo Club (SFPC) and Friends of Forsythe. The club membership is assisting in a photo documentation project of the Forsythe NWR.
On 3 June the SFPC membership was to have undertaken a day-and-evening photo trip around the Pines Barrens, led by club member and environmentalist Joe Lomax. The journey was to end after dinner with locating some frogs, but the rainy weather caused the event to be rescheduled. I'm going to search for frogs myself, before the rescheduled trip.
A week earlier, on 26 May, a friend and I spent photography-time in the Tuckahoe WMA (off NJ Rt 50) and then met other SFPC members for dinner and a late evening beach excursion to see horseshoe crabs coming ashore to lay eggs. I'm not sure if the Cape May NWR is considered the Pine Barrens, so for now I'll say you can see pictures and my blog on Weather Underground (rules here prefer Pine Barrens pix only).
In May I added a Sigma 50-500 mm f/4.5-6.3 telephoto to the two Canon lenses for a 20D, and the increased focal length has significantly increased the quality of the wildlife and birding photos. If the Forsythe NWR is considered in the Pine Barrens, I'll be happy to post some of the better pictures. Earlier this spring I was poking around in Whitesbog, Chatsworth, and Double Trouble. I'll post a selection of photos shortly.
My user name? For 8 years or so I wrote a popular column called "Baudwalking" -- what's new on the Internet communications- and radio-wise -- for an Australian amateur radio hobbyist magazine. Those of you who visited telephone BBS's at the poky rate of 300, 1200 or 2400 know the term "baud" -- and I traveled ("walked") around the Internet. Our first Web site went on line in late 1994, after closing down my decade-old "Pinelands RBBS" telephone BBS.
Since 1979 my wife and I live on the fringe of the Pine Barrens, a few minutes from downtown Chatsworth, the capital of the Pine Barrens.
On 3 June the SFPC membership was to have undertaken a day-and-evening photo trip around the Pines Barrens, led by club member and environmentalist Joe Lomax. The journey was to end after dinner with locating some frogs, but the rainy weather caused the event to be rescheduled. I'm going to search for frogs myself, before the rescheduled trip.
A week earlier, on 26 May, a friend and I spent photography-time in the Tuckahoe WMA (off NJ Rt 50) and then met other SFPC members for dinner and a late evening beach excursion to see horseshoe crabs coming ashore to lay eggs. I'm not sure if the Cape May NWR is considered the Pine Barrens, so for now I'll say you can see pictures and my blog on Weather Underground (rules here prefer Pine Barrens pix only).
In May I added a Sigma 50-500 mm f/4.5-6.3 telephoto to the two Canon lenses for a 20D, and the increased focal length has significantly increased the quality of the wildlife and birding photos. If the Forsythe NWR is considered in the Pine Barrens, I'll be happy to post some of the better pictures. Earlier this spring I was poking around in Whitesbog, Chatsworth, and Double Trouble. I'll post a selection of photos shortly.
My user name? For 8 years or so I wrote a popular column called "Baudwalking" -- what's new on the Internet communications- and radio-wise -- for an Australian amateur radio hobbyist magazine. Those of you who visited telephone BBS's at the poky rate of 300, 1200 or 2400 know the term "baud" -- and I traveled ("walked") around the Internet. Our first Web site went on line in late 1994, after closing down my decade-old "Pinelands RBBS" telephone BBS.
Since 1979 my wife and I live on the fringe of the Pine Barrens, a few minutes from downtown Chatsworth, the capital of the Pine Barrens.
