Chris mccowan

Good morning! Still organizing old photos. This was my favorite spot to have coffee for 30+ years in Nederland Colorado.
#nederland
#colorado
#landscapes

A flock of Stellar Blue Jays visited our house everyday for many, many years.
#bluejay
#birds

Wonder who was up on the chair looking in the window?
#beartracks
#nederland
#colorado

Ran across this photo of the bar in Grainger Wyoming on the Green River where I lived for a time back in the 1970's. In a small Wyoming town, nothing goes unused... Those were some wild times in southern Wyoming... if the wind stopped blowing everyone fell down.

This little guy really popped in the sunlight.

Hopefully others in the world will pick up the slack!

A brown pelican in flight against a cloudless blue-gray sky.

A brown #pelican seemingly suspended mid-air. Florida USA.
#Birds #Florida #BirdsSeenIn2026 #BirdsInFlight #Photography #Wildlife #Feathers #Nature

Caught one of my wife’s orchids in bloom.
#flowers
#photograph

Great Sand Dunes National Park. I've taken a number of photos from this spot (RV camp outside of the park). The dunes in the valley with the mountain backdrop always stuns me.
#landscapes
#photography

A micrograph of polished and etched brass revealing a cross section of the crystalline grain structure. This is an ancient micro from my past optical microscopy life. Currently attempting to get into macrophotography.
#microscophy
#micrograph
#brass

Winners of the 2025 Amsterdam Photography Awards #TuesdayMorning

Hey Justin. So much fun. Thanks.

A bucket-list trip, on a kind friends' boat, thru the islands south-west of Vancouver and the San Juan islands. This was back in 2018, when the Forests of Canada were on fire! That the smoke in the photo sailing across the Strait of Georgia back to Vancouver.

A bucket-list trip thru the islands south-west of Vancouver and the San Juan islands. My wife and I slept on deck most nights. Woke up one morning to this eagle in a tree above us.

A bucket-list trip thru the islands south-west of Vancouver and the San Juan islands.

"I cannot remember a night so dark as to hinder or prevent the coming day: nor a storm so furious & dreadful as to prevent the return of warm sunshine & a cloudless sky"--John Brown, Nov. 8, 1859

Written to his wife, roughly one month before his execution. 🗃️

This animation resulted from ASPIICS observing the Sun during an active period on 21 September 2025, with one image taken every five minutes, capturing three prominence eruptions in five hours.

Californian Poppy from the archives

Elk rut in Rocky Mountain National Park, September 2024.
(Sound up)

Great shot... many great shots. Your colors and textures are so stunning. You never mention using a flash, so I assume you normally don't... right?

Shelties have rules.

Love looking thru old photos... My Grandpa and his pony.

She is at the window. Don't let her in!

January 9, 2026 Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

Letters from an American
Jan 2026

I really do love our Democracy. It is deep in my bones and spirit.

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Just finished reading a book I got for Xmas, Young Washington by Peter Stark. Great reading. Well documented but reads like a novel.
#historybooks

Very moving.

I really like this photo. It just seems to work for me.

I suppose that normal people think about White Sands and think about, you know, the white sand.

But I am fond of the picnic shelters, too.

White Sands National Park, New Mexico
photographed 12.13.2025

I don’t know the best approach, but we need to get there! Ideas are helpful.