Wild • Lives

Bobcat. Beach.

2011-12-27T20:17:00.000-08:00

Today at Point Reyes, I saw my first bobcat on a beach. Unfortunately I spooked it as I was coming around a cliff edge and it ran off and up a slope with thick coyote brush. And shortly after the bobcat I spooked a coyote on the beach. I never thought of going to the beach to look for cat and dog, I was going to check out the waves, but I just might start hanging out at the beach a little more often. I saw the bobcat about a half hour later meandering along the cliff. The cat looked pretty rugged and weathered and something was up with its ears. Hard to tell but they looked torn up and the tips were gone. Battle scars perhaps.

Spent afternoon on Point Reyes trails. Saw another bobcat hunting rodents in the grass.

Thinking about Lamar (the dog and the valley)

2011-11-13T08:50:00.000-08:00

This weekend I made a Blurb book of my Yellowstone images from the trip I took in May 2011. The images are the ones that were in my Yellowstone show and a few more selects. Making the Blurb book, I realized how my dog Lamar is kind of the embodiment of all that I love about Yellowstone. So I dedicate the book to Lamar who is 7 years old tomorrow...Happy Birthday Lamar!

Here's my dedication and the front and back cover images of the book. If anyone is interested in obtaining a copy, please contact me at trish@trishcarney.com.

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Thoreau Center SF, Art Exhibition

2011-11-09T07:15:00.000-08:00

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I will be having a show of selects from my Yellowstone portfolio at The Seed Gallery at the Thoreau Center For Sustainability in the Presidio in San Francisco.

Opening is Wednesday,November 9th, 5pm-7pm.

Show runs November 9th - January 27th.

If you are in the SF bay area, I hope you can stop by and see the show while it is up at the Seed Gallery through January 27th!

Thoreau Center for Sustainability
The Presidio of San Francisco
Building 1016
1014 Torney Avenue (at Lincoln Blvd)

Cheers!
Trish

2011-10-18T13:28:00.000-07:00

I spent my birthday last week looking for black bear and I found them!

I was hiking around in Desolation Wilderness and saw 5 different black bears, not bad for a 3 day trip! My favorite sighting was this black bear cub in a tree. I was hiking (by myself) at sunrise when a pine cone dropped and almost landed on me. I look up expecting a squirrel or raven and two black bear cubs are looking down at me in the tree. I was so excited and elated but then I had the "oh shit" moment... "where's mom?" I walked further down the trail 'cause I did not want to be between the sow & her cubs and then I broke out the 500mm from my pack and got a few shots of the cub(s) peering over the pine needles. The cubs were just going to town feeding on the pine cones stopping to nap a little. The 500mm is a little hefty for hiking but its moments like these that I just won't leave home without it!

It was a pretty great way to spend my birthday unplugged, in the mountains, lots of trees and of course with bears!

Trading stares with bear, pleasures of place.

2011-09-13T08:15:00.000-07:00

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In your presence, animals are only human.

2011-09-13T07:55:00.000-07:00

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Ground trembles from your maternal instincts.

2011-08-05T07:04:00.000-07:00

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