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| PORTFOLIO >> MUSIC VIDEOS | INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL | TRAINING & INFORMATIONAL | NATURE | ||||||||||||
NATURE
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Frog Play (2 min 15 sec) |
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This frog was obsessed with attacking a flower at the BioPark in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I used to play this game with frogs when I was fishing as a kid. Goofing on a frog was one way to pass the time while waiting for the fish to bite. I am amazed at how far a frog will go away from the water when chasing a small wiggling object that it is programmed to think is food. The frog in this video chased the flower about 5' onto dry land.
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Red Fox Along the Bay Trail in Richmond, CA (1 min) |
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I encountered this red fox while walking around the Landfill Loop Trail at Garbage Mountain. I was surprised to see the fox out in mid day. It appeared to be hunting for rodents such as gophers and mice. The Landfill Loop Trail incorporates fantastc views of San Pablo Bay, Wildcat and San Pablo Creeks with remarkable examples of industrial water conservation and reuse, resource recovery, electrical generation, recycling and recreation.
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Spider Web Construction in Slow Motion (2 min 27 sec) |
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This is a slow motion and normal speed close-up movie of a common garden spider building a web. I thought the web-building process was amazing before I grabbed my camera--but even more so after I slowed down the footage to 10% of normal speed! So fast and efficient is this spider as it extracts silk from its abdomen, shifts its grip on the silk fibers from claw to claw, measures distances, and creates just the right amount of tension to keep the web taut. And the third leg from the front on the spider's left side appears to be missing it's foot! Of great interest to me was how the spider attached the silk fiber at each junction.
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Gulls Gone Wild: Point Richmond, CA Herring Run (6 min 30 sec) |
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This music video is an initial attempt to document the beauty, exuberance, and chaos of this natural history experience along the Bay Trail in Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline in Point Richmonc, CA. The herring first came to Point Richmond on (or shortly before) February 4, 2011 to spawn after commercial roe fishing boats reached their limits allowing successive runs throughout the month. Harbor seals and sea lions came to eat the herring; then the gulls and diving ducks came to feast on the carpets of eggs that covered the kelp, eelgrass, pier pilings, and rocks along the shore. This documentary covers about 10 days of the event. Click Caviar for the Birds to view still photography of the event. |
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| Will Juggle for Food! (1 min) |
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This immature Black-crowned Night Heron juggles a small fish with its beak to separate the meat from the moss. The bird was hunting at dusk in the lake in Miller Knox Regional Park along the San Francisco Bay Trail, Point Richmond, CA. Several adult Black-crowned Herons roost in the trees in nearby downtown Point Richmond. Play video in High Definition for best detail. |
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| The Spider and the Fish (10 sec) |
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This is a story about a spider and a fish. |
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| Space Jellies-a Student Project (43 sec) |
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This was the first project I completed in Adobe After Effects when I was a multimedia student at Marin College. |
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