Parker Photographic Insiders Field Stories. Real Lessons. Every Tuesday. Hello Reader ! Owls. Love them! How 'bout you? One problem. I've never actually encountered them in the wild. Not really. Well... there was that one time in Cape Coral while visiting friends. You might remember that story from a newsletter months back. Burrowing Owls nesting literally two doors down from where we were staying. Technically? Sure, it counts as "the wild." But in my mind? That doesn't qualify. Way too easy....

Parker Photographic Insiders Field Stories. Real Lessons. Every Tuesday. Hello Reader ! I planned for weeks. Round trip: 4,495 miles. Dozens of carefully researched locations pinned on my map. What I did not plan for? The relentless obstacles that would block me from reaching half of them. A snowstorm... in the desert. Road closures without warning. Flash floods washing out access roads. Every curveball Mother Nature could throw. Which left me staring at a surprising dilemma. How was I going...

Parker Photographic Insiders Field Stories. Real Lessons. Every Tuesday. Hello Reader ! The year was 2001. Me, Tammy, and our oldest son loaded up the car and pointed it toward my Grandma's place in the Gaslight Village. That's the historic downtown area of Wyoming, NY... and yes, it's actually called that because the streets have been lit by natural gas lamps since 1809. The whole village sits on a natural gas field. Pretty cool, right?) By day one of our visit, we were climbing the walls...