The Nature Photography of Joseph Wald
In 2016, I went to Idaho for my grandpa’s funeral. My grandma wanted me to have his telescope because she knows that just as my grandpa did, I like astronomy and science. I spent many nights observing things in the night sky like Saturn and its rings along with Jupiter and its moons. On several … Read more
When this website was first created, I had set out to write at least one blog a month. I have not been writing much for the past two years. With this post, I hope to start uploading consistently to the blog again. A lot has happened like my sister graduating from an optometry college and … Read more
Over the course of the past several months, I took a long break from taking pictures and writing blogs for the website. I have started getting out with the camera again the past few weeks. I have seen some otters, blue herons, owls, and woodpeckers. There are some other people in the area … Read more
After I was given my grandpa’s telescope, I spent a lot of time looking at stuff in the night sky. I went out with the telescope every clear night. It wasn’t long after I got the telescope that I joined an astronomy club. They would meet at two different fields that were supposed to … Read more
As I sit by the lake that I often go to, I sometimes see green herons. I was surprised when I first saw them as they are so much smaller than blue herons. While a blue heron’s wingspan can get to around six feet, the green heron’s wingspan only gets around twenty-six inches. … Read more
I wanted to talk about what goes on behind the pictures that I take. There is one thing in particular that I want to talk about which is my dog. My dog, Luna, a black Labrador retriever, helps me a lot with my wildlife photography. I have taken pictures for basically my whole life … Read more
For a couple years, I have been trying to get a picture of a bald eagle. Often, I traveled out to a state park that I heard had one of the highest populations of eagles in Virginia hoping that I would get a picture of an eagle. Unfortunately, that picture never manifested. One … Read more
On many morning walks with my dog, we pass by a pond. On the opposite side of the pond from the path, we often see a blue heron. Sometimes it will land on two branches that stick out over the water, while other times, it will be among the cattail plants. Sometimes as we … Read more
I have been fascinated by wolves for a long time. That fascination led me to go to a wildlife refuge in North Carolina where the only wild Red Wolves in the world live. Unfortunately, I was not able to see the wolves. I did however see a lot of black bears. One of my … Read more
In the spring of 2020, I started watching the hummingbirds that were in the area. As I watched them, I started to recognize that there were a few flight paths that they often took past the house and that there were a few branches in the nearby trees that they would land on. Because … Read more
Red-Bellied woodpecker I spend a lot of time walking with my dog. We walk along a few different paths each day and observe the wildlife in the areas that we walk. Over the course of a few weeks, I had noticed that a woodpecker kept returning to a certain area. After I had an idea … Read more
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