Gallery

A selection of images from the Gallery, organized by category. Each image links to a dedicated page with more photos and details about the subject. The categories below represent a range of organisms and landscapes, showcasing the diversity of life and environments captured in the Gallery.

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Animals

This section gathers the many forms of life that share fields and woodlands.

Arachnids
Hidden Engineers and Patient Hunters.
From the balance of waiting to the geometry of a web.

Insects
The small architects of movement, color, and change.
A closer look at the world of wings and exoskeletons.

Birds
Grace, flight and song.
A collection of avian life — perching, soaring, and singing.

Mammals
Quiet strength and familiar grace in fur and motion.
Mammals reveal adaptability of woodland life.

Fungi

Red Tree Brain Fungus on Oak Twig
Small red cushions of *Peniophora rufa* following bark fissures on a fallen oak branch.

Ash Rust
Spores carried by wind between hosts.

Lichens
Foliose and crustose lichens forming a layered communities.

Moss
A soft, feathery moss that forms lush mats.
When illuminated, its overlapping branches create a rippling texture.

Mushrooms
The forest’s recyclers.
A collection of mushrooms and other fungi from Minnesota woodlands.

Landscapes

Landscapes
Scenes from Minnesota’s fields and parks.
Light, horizon, and the quiet geometry of open space.

Aurora Over Lakeville, Minnesota
A vivid geomagnetic storm transforms a quiet night sky.
Captured from Lakeville, Minnesota, where rare red and green auroral curtains reached far south during an intense solar storm.

Macros

Rain Held Close
A quiet world distilled into droplets.
After the storm, an oak leaf becomes a basin for the smallest reflections. Beads of rain cling to its surface, forming crystal domes that magnify the colors of grass and autumn debris around them.

Plants

Wildflowers
Seasonal bursts of color.
Ephemeral beauty along paths and prairies.

Vines
Tenacity and grace.
Threads that climb, twist, and anchor to life.