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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 7h

The tide goes out to say goodnight to the setting Sun. Leffingwell Landing, Cambria. #photography #landscapephotography #sansimeonstatebeach #cambria

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Taking the dogs for an evening cruise. One year ago in Driftwood Provincial Park, Ontario, CA (Canada, not California). #photography #fallcolor #dogs #landscapephotography #canada

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rob has chosen #WingsOpenNotFlying as #BirdOfTheDay theme; birds with their wing open when not flying A greater white-fronted goose at sunset in Cosumnes Reserve, California. @robcrank68.bsky.social #wildlifephotography #photography #cosumnes #audubon

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rob has chosen #Black&Red as #BirdOfTheDay theme; any bird with black and red in its plumage. Hints of black accentuate the subtle pinks and bright reds of this flamingo's plumage. Los Angeles Zoo, 2018. @robcrank68.bsky.social #flamingo #lazoo @losangeleszoo.bsky.social

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#BestBeaks as #BirdOfTheDay theme; a bird with a beak/bill with striking colours, bold profiles or an interesting shape. An American pelican at sunrise, Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve. @helenbennett.bsky.social #photography #wildlifephotography

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Black&White; any shot in black and white Avocets in Humboldt Bay, CA. @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #wildlifephotography #photography #arcata

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #EFG, birds beginning with any of those letters (1st name). Egyptian geese on the cement bank of the Los Angeles River near the Sepulveda Dam. #photography #audubon @sfvaudubon.bsky.social #egyptiangeese #wildlifephotography @robcrank68.bsky.social

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds - any bird captured with a soft, muted or blurry background. My best-ever hummingbird shot, from the Chicago Botanic Garden. @helenbennett.bsky.social #wildlifephotography #photography #hummingbirds #audubon

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Seabirds; any bird found at sea or the coast Brown Pelicans off the coast of Central California. @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #photography #pelicans #wildlifephotography

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rob has chosen #Pairs as #BirdOfTheDay theme; photos with pairs of the same species Openbill storks in South Luangwa NP, Zambia. @robcrank68.bsky.social #wildlifephotography #photography #zambia #storks #birdphotography

This isn't so much a "pair" as the changing of the guard. One swoops in and chases off the other.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Raptors; any bird of prey A juvenile red-tailed hawk standing over a dove it knocked out of the sky and into my backyard. June, 2022. @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #wildlifephotography #photography #raptors

This is a head-on photograph of a juvenile red-tailed hawk standing on top of a dead or dying dove in my backyard in Los Angeles. It knocked the dove out of the sky, and then perched on my barbecue waiting for the dove to stop moving. Then it flew down to the ground, grabbed the dove, and transported it to a clearing under my jacaranda tree. It then began to tear it apart and eat it.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Redheads, any bird with Red on its head/beak. A southern red-billed hornbill, photographed in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #wildlifephotography #photography

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#LightAndShadow is today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme "Sorry about that!" Blackbirds silhouetted against the rising Moon in Bosque del Apache, NM. @atlanticbirding.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #photography

About fifteen blackbirds are resting in the bare branches of a tree. The background is a deep blue sky, punctuated by a nearly full Moon rising in the East. A single blackbird, on the tallest branch, is completely encircled by the Moon, creating an even starker contrast between the light and shadow. The bird is looking down, as if to warn or apologize for something it has just dropped.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #elegant "Elegance: Tasteful opulence in form, decoration, or presentation." Right down to the eyelashes. A southern ground-hornbill, photographed in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #wildlifephotography #photography #botswana

The Southern Ground-Hornbill, photographed in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. The body is black and shiny, with a black hornbill, but the face and neck are bright red, and the eye is black with a yellow iris with pronounced eyelashes. While the body is facing the camera, the face is turned three quarters so only one eye is facing the viewer.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; any of the Tit, Titmice and Chickadees. A wrentit - exiting, stage down. Photographed in Mugu State Park, California. @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #photography

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Silhoutte A pair of Canada Geese at sunrise in Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve, Los Angeles. This was taken five months after a fire denuded 90% of the reserve. @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #wildlifephotography #photography #audubon

A pair of Canada Geese are silhouetted against the morning mist at Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve in January, 2021. The picture was taken five months after a Labor Day Weekend fire burned about 90% of the vegetation in the Reserve, including the reeds that surrounded the pond. The birds (egrets, geese, cormorants, redtail hawks, turkey vultures, etc.) returned quickly, as their food supply in the pond and the creek and the burrows did not burn up.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mouthful A yellow-billed hornbird grabs its morning meal in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. #wildlifephotography #photography #botswana #okavangodelta

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence. These two lilac breasted rollers were swooping around each other and our truck in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya. It was lightly raining. They are the most colorful birds I've ever seen. #wildlifephotography #photography #kenya

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#ABCD is today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; any bird beginning with these letters. I choose Cattle Egret, photographed in front of a Cape buffalo along the Chobe River in Botswana. #wildlifephotography #safari #botswana #photography

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay theme challenge is #BirdBuddies A great grey heron hanging out with some white-faced whistling ducks on an island in the middle of the Chobe River. I've titled this, "Freshmen meet a senior on their first day of high school." #photography #wildlifephotography #choberiver

A single great grey heron meets seven white-faced whistling ducks in a wetland on the Chobe River, Botswana. The heron towers over the ducks, a single black feather on its head waving insouciantly on the breeze.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Herons&Egrets Shot at the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve in Los Angeles. They like to fly up to the high branches at sunrise to get warm, then it's just a matter of waiting until they take off again.

An egret taking off from a high branch at sunrise, trailing behind another egret that is half-visible on the right side of the frame. Some bare branches poke up from the bottom of the frame, and the background is pale blue sky.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Contrast. A fish eagle perched on a snag in the Chobe River, Botswana. #photography #wildlifephotography

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is from the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve in Los Angeles. The water is supplied by a sewage reclamation plant, and the location is within 1/2 mile of one of the busiest freeway exchanges in the world. But when it's cold and the fog is rising, it could be anywhere.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sundowner Time in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Our Landcruisers were equipped with a portable bar, and as the sun went down our guides would find a safe place to park where we could stretch our legs and enjoy an adult beverage. #photography #landscapephotography #africa #botswana

Sunset on the water in Botswana. There are two trees, one alive and one fallen over. They are reflected in the water. The sky, also reflected in the water, is a parfait of color from deep magenta at the horizon to dark blue at the top.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My show “The Johnny Chronicles” is on the walls and ready for viewing at TAG Gallery on Wilshire Blvd near La Brea. The show is based upon my book of the same name, available at GreatPartyPress.com. The reception is in 12 days (Saturday 9/12) from 5-8 pm. The exhibition runs from 9/2 to 9/24.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

#Coastal&River birds are today’s #BirdOfTheDay This is a Fish Eagle photographed above the Chobe River near Kasane, Botswana. #wildlifephotography #photography #Botswana #safari

A fish eagle in flight within a second of launching from its perch. The viewpoint is from slightly above the bird, as I was on a ridge above the treeline. The blue Chobe River and the distant shoreline in Namibia can be seen behind it.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A wrentit feasting on the berries of a greenbark ceonathus in Sycamore Canyon, Pt. Mugu State Park. These little guys would pick them off daintily one at a time before swallowing. #birdphotography #wildlife #wrentit

A photograph of the bird commonly known as a wrentit (Chamaea fasciata). It's a small bird that hops around in the impenetrable shrubs of Pacific Chaparral along the California Coast. Its call is distinctive and loud.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Early morning in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. During our Kenya safari (in 2022) we saw fresh kills, vultures, and bones by the side of the road. On this trip there were almost none of them. The antelope and antelope-adjacent animals were living in paradise. #wildlifephotography #photography

An impala resting in high grass at sunrise in South Luangwa National Park, in Zambia. The sky glowing orange through an opening in the canopy of trees, backlighting the subject and the grasses surrounding it.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A puku mother nursing her calf in the early morning at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. #photography #wildlifephotography #zambia #southluangwa

The early morning light is warm and from the right. A female puku (a type of antelope) is nursing its calf in a grassy area near the Luangwa River in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Photographs do not lie. This is a healthy tree in the H.R. Giger National Forest, in the Sierra Madre Mountains of California Sur, between the cities of Jimtown and Greenfield. #photography #scifi

This is a heavily edited photograph of a dead tree stump highlighted against the sky.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Crocodiles are a lot like us. They are vicious, sneaky predators. And they like to soak in a hot spring and watch the sun go down. #photography #wildlifephotography #pangolinchobe

The top half of a crocodile's head emerges from the Chobe River in Botswana. It's head creates concentric ripples on the water, which reflects the blue sky and orange clouds of a brilliant African sunset.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Rapunzel! A young elephant taking an evening dust bath in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. #photography #wildlifephotography #zambia #elephants

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"What am I going to do with you?" South Luangwa National Park, Zambia #photography #zambia #baboon #wildlifephotography

A baboon is perched atop a horizontal log, resting on its haunches with both arms resting on its knees. It is facing the camera in late afternoon light, with its head resting on its hand in a pose familiar to all children with patient parents.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Close Air Support If these birds did not exist science fiction illustrators would invent them. They can bullseye womp rats. And then eat them. #photography #wildlifephotography #chobe #botswana

A gray heron in Chobe National Park. It is flying low to the water in a swampy area where a lot of fowl congregate. At the bottom of the frame is a large group of white-faced whistling ducks, who are physically must smaller than the heron.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The number of adult elephants flanking a juvenile is inverse to the youngster's age. We saw a two-week old with an entourage of at least six, one of whom bluff charged us several times. If there is a Swift-Kelce child, the security will look like this. #photography #wildlifephotography #okavango

Three large adult elephants chaperone a baby elephant through the grass in the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A woodland kingfisher preparing to swallow a dragonfly on the Chobe River, Botswana. #photography #wildlifephotography #botswana #chobe

This is a head-on image of a woodland kingfisher sitting on a branch against a green background. The wings of a recently caught dragonfly stick out from its beak. This was taken on the Chobe River in May, 2026.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Today my brother John would have been 62 years old. He died in April 2022. Since he passed I have published a book of my old photographs of him and our family called "The Johnny Chronicles." And I have two solo shows of the images in the next few months, in Fresno and Los Angeles. 1/2

This is a vertical black and white photograph that was taken in 1973. The subject is my brother John Doherty, who was born with Down Syndrome in 1964. John is standing in his rain boots on an oil-stained driveway, holding a plastic screwdriver, with his hands hitching up his belt. He is looking directly into the camera, his face and shirt dirty from whatever he was doing before I took the photograph.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A cattle egret doing the “you’ve got bugs!” dance at the feet of a water buffalo along the Chobe River. #photography #wildlifephotography #botswana

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"Well, well - another blond hair. . . . Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?" (brazenly stolen from Gary Larson) #photography #botswana #baboons

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

A few evenings ago in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. Apparently our safari vehicle was following a little too closely. This is the elephant equivalent of a Yosemite Sam “Back Off!” bumper sticker. We reached an open area about 60 yards up the road and they let us pass. #photography #elephants

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

There’s a Hip-o-Potamus in my Pool. Sunset in Chobe National Park, Botswana. #photography #wildlifephotography #safari #chobe

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Today in the Netherlands it is Koningsdag (King's Day). This photo in Amsterdam was made yesterday, as they were taking the party boats out for a test ride. #photography #amsterdam #koningsdag

A dozen boats of different sizes are crowded into a stretch of canal in Amsterdam the day before King's Day (Koningsdag). This was a practice run for the party the next day.

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Matchsticks. Coole Park Nature Reserve, Ireland. I thought we were going for a walk in the woods, and instead found a hugely important cultural site. #cooleypark #photography

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My book The Johnny Chronicles is available at The Village Well in Culver City. A real honest-to- goodness book store!

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Joe Doherty @jwdohertyphd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Dawn in Malibu Creek State Park. I visited the park three times in the last 45 days, and each time it looked like a different place. #photography #landscapephotography #smmnra #malibucreekstatepark #sierraclub

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