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My abstract photos of the night-time urban landscape.

A hawk circles above the Panorama mountain ridge on an autumn afternoon in October, near Berkeley Springs in West Virginia.

Kite flying on the beaches of North Carolina's outer banks.

Groups of pelicans as they hunt for fish off North Carolina's outer banks during the 2011 Memorial weekend.

Dry ice in a bowl, immersed in water.

Dry ice starts vibrating in this metal bowl like crazy... this is a product of the ice warming, lifted by the evaporating CO2, then cooling and fal...

I bought this when I was a long way from home, and it has helped comfort me through many difficult nights. In my journal I wrote, "In my room shine...

I see these two hawks almost everyday, hunting the ridge across from my front yard. They start low, circling over my porch - they circle upward on ...