Nature Photographer and Music Producer
This is the nature blog of Jonathan Swanson for members
This is my favorite bee to photograph. I took these photos inOaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge....
I have been enjoying photographing a variety of bees and dragonflies. Most of these photos were taken at Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge. Please consider becoming a member to support my efforts to bring these images to you. As a member you will be able to download these images. I will also make my music and music videos exclusively to my members....
This is the time of year when dragonflies are out in full force. I was able to get close to some cool dragonflies today with my 80mm macro lens with a 1.4 teleconverter....
Today was a perfect day to be out on the River. I decided to paddle up the in my Kayak to search for Bald Eagles. Here are a few pictures of a Bald Eagle that I took from my Kayak....
At the start of June, I took on a job doing some renovation and remodeling a beach house in Neskowin Oregon. After doing a few hours of work I started feeling sick and getting cold symptoms. I took a rapid test the next day and tested positive for covid. This was disappointing since I thought being vaccinated twice would help prevent severe covid symptoms. I spent the next 6 days in bed with full blown covid with continuous coughing and fever. My throat was so
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Today I decided to check out Oaks Bottom Wildlife refuge in the early evening hours. Here are some of my favorite photos from today. You can download this photo gallery with the link below....
Here is some video footage of wildlife in Portland Oregon. The soundtrack to this video is a relaxing and meditative piano improvisation by Jonathan Swanson. For the highest quality video, select 1080 on the video player. If you have a slower internet you may have to select a smaller size video...
There has been a lot of rainy weather here in Portland. It is definitely keeping things green. Here are some pictures that I was able to get between the rain storms. I have also enjoyed getting some photos of Male Anna’s Hummingbirds....
Today’s weather forecast called for rain and thunderstorms. There were several breaks between the storms and I was able to get some photos. All the photos should have links to the full images....
I took this picture in Willamette Park in Portland Oregon. Here is a link for information about Killdeers....