Notes from a Temperate Jungle: Some Favorite Photos

It has been about two years now that I have developed photography as a hobby and while I have a lot of room for improvement as a photographer, I have very much enjoyed the opportunities it creates to be outside and to look at my surroundings more closely and with a more potentially appreciative perspective. As a hunter who values the experience and required skills of the hunt much more than the result of it, I have found that photography can require those same skills and offer those same experiences. Much of my hunting gear and equipment is just as useful in shooting an animal with a camera as it is with a rifle and, for me, photography provides yet another excuse to be outside and go see things I have never seen before.
Spring here has been on the rainy and cold side of the weather so far so I have not been using my camera too much when I have been out, (although there are some nice days ahead in the forecast so I hope to remedy that!) so I thought I would scratch my itch to do a post by posting some of my favorite photos that I have taken over the last two years.
I hope you all find them pleasing to your eyes!

Wildflowers called Shooting Stars after a summer rain.

An experiment with indoor photography a couple winters ago using a store bought rose, natural light through a window, and a black background.

I only like this photo because the avian subject of it is an American Redstart which is only found in Alaska in the summertime on the Stikine River delta.