Andrew Rodgers

@acedrew.bsky.social

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Founder, artist, photographer, wanderer

Black and yellow lichen moth on milkweed
Snowberry Clearwing Hummingbird Moth hovering over a purple flower, the moth is best describe as the body shape of a lobster, stuffed into a bumblebee costume, the plants in the background are visible through the clear wings. It's a very good photo
An osprey carrying a fish by one talon, another osprey in close pursuit, just a few feet above the water
A very handsome Yellow-Capped Night Heron standing in a shallow pond with foliage around him
Traditional bird on a stick view of the scissor-tail flycatcher on a bright blue sky background
Beautiful tiger stripe orange tabby kitten, looking attentively past the photographer
The most photogenic kitten ever (young cat trotting across green field)
Kitten perched in a tree branch looking at the camera with curiosity
Sandhill Cranes flying in front of a wind turbine, one crane is perfectly centered on the hub of the turbine
A wind turbine is silhouetted by the rising moon
Photo of a South Texas highway, heat waves distorting cars and an old microwave radio tower sited on a ridge in the background landscape, the road disappears into the horizon
A small hill in big bend national park, ridges and mountains full the background
White Throated swift soaring against a blue sky
A ring necked duck with it's bill tucked into its wings tries to take a nap and shield from the wind while keeping an eye on the Northern Shovelers swimming past
Detail view of a double crested cormorants face, it's aquamarine eye lit by the sun
A roseated spoonbill grooms while their three compatriots sleep with beaks tucked in their wings in the foregeound
An American Kestrel fiercely scans for victims from a perch on a power line
Lightning arcs across the clouds with a camper van in the foreground
The super blue moon
Small insect on authors hand
About 8 years ago I was flying into or out of Chattanooga near sunset and noticed this network of ridges across the valley floor, as if someone had dragged a rake along the Tennessee river leaving zen garden-esque lines in its wake. My curiosity about these features led me on a fascinating journey of geological learning. These features, as old as the Appalachian chain itself, are subduction zones, pushed down and compressed by the same forces that thrust the Appalachian mountains out of the earth. Over the millions of years since, erosion from water and glacial scour wore away the softer top layers, leaving behind these densified ridges that survive today. I've been on 3 flights to attempt to capture what I saw out the window of my flight that evening, to no avail, but finally, the fourth attempt paid off with weather, aerosols and timing working in my favor.
Greyscale infrared photo of a canyon cutting into Walden's ridge tennessee
Infrared inverse color image of a tree in a field, and clouds across a blue sky, the tree and field are reddish orange
Photo from Tillamook County, Oregon looking north up the coast
View from overlook on cliff above Neahkahnie Beach in Northern Oregon
Double Crested cormorant flying with nesting material in front of waves crashing on a sea stack
Tufted Puffin looking fancy, about to take off from the cliff edge of a sea stack
Sunset on the Southern oregon coast, waves crashing against rocks and a sea bird silhouetted against the sun
The milky way, rising over Sisters Rock in southern Oregon, fog making the stars dreamy
Black and white image of the Illinois River in southwestern Oregon a few miles before it flows into the rogue. Image is exposed from infrared light rendering pitch black skies and ethereal glowing foilage
Baby chipping sparrows looking incredibly grumpy
Pink Aurora appears as a curtain across the sky
Small hummingbird in poor light, olivish back, white chest
Grey bird with dark eyes and dark feather capping its head, sitting in a dense evergreen tree
Common Yellow throat, a small bird with yellow chest, black bar across its eyes and buff/yellow back, perched on a branch and looking inquisitively at the photographer
A golden retriever behind the wheel of a car looking expectant
A view of totality with several solar prominences visible
A photo of the partial eclipse about 5 minutes before totality, shot with an infrared modified camera
A northern parula looking suspiciously at the photographer, a small yellow and gray bird with flashes of white and black along its wings
Solar eclipse with small amounts of sunlight around the upper left rim
Image of solar eclipse totality
A willet wading along the shoreline, a medium sized marbled buff colored bird with long legs
Laughing Gulls breeding on top of a utility distribution pole, white birds with black heads and wing tips
A pair of scissors tail flycatchers sit on a medium voltage distribution wire
A pileated woodpecker in flight on a downbeat of the wings, red crest and white wingtips highlighted by sun
Large white bird, obviously heronish, with brown tinges to wings and crest
A Prothonotary Warbler looks curiously at the photographer while sitting on a branch
A yellow crowned night heron holding a crayfish it snatched from the shallow pond water, the crayfish is covered in small algae and plants that were floating on the surface of the pond
Photo of abandoned highway service station with classic pure gasoline sign, black and white infrared, dark sky, bright trees
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher tryna hit me up
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher singing for me
An Eastern Meadowlark perched on a fence post
Osprey against a bright blue sky
Great Blue Heron gliding in for a landing, breeding blue cheeks in deep color
Great Blue Heron with a large stick
An Osprey snags a fish out of the water, barely disturbing the surface
Caspian Tern with the catch of the day, white bird lifting off from the water, splashing from where it dipped in to pick up the fish
Caspian Tern looking fabulous in late afternoon light
Gorgeous late afternoon light combined with brilliant breeding color and plumage create an unearthly intensity in this posing Great Blue Heron
An Osprey rising from the water, its catch in claw, droplets spraying everywhere as it pumps its wings explosively