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Jim Hughes

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Posted on January 12, 2023March 29, 2025

Woodpecker Portrait Session

Some famous photographer once said that “90% of photography is access“. That’s definitely true for birds.

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Posted on January 1, 2023March 26, 2025

The Northern Flicker

Not a rare bird, but one that’s hard to photograph.

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Posted on April 2, 2022April 4, 2022

Young Owls

This winter, the Great Horned Owls came back to a site not far from my house and raised another brood.

Siblings
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Posted on March 17, 2022March 22, 2022

Cardinals

In the middle of a March snowstorm in Minnesota, a Cardinal is singing.

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  • Minneapolis and the Mississippi
  • Generative AI: Let’s Pull Back The Curtain
  • Out on the 3rd Avenue Bridge
  • AI and Christopher Columbus
  • Elgin Standard Time
  • Water Meets Ice
  • Bricks
  • Woodpecker Portrait Session
  • The Northern Flicker
  • The Downy Woodpecker
  • Crazy Ice On The Creek
  • Photography: What’s Left?
  • A Highway At Night
  • A Darker Minneapolis
  • Hover Flies: Pollinators In Disguise
  • On The Franklin Avenue Bridge
  • Stay Cool In The Skyways
  • In The Wind
  • The Rusty Patched bumble bee
  • A Hot Day Downtown
  • The Sleeping Queens
  • Dragonflies and Damselflies
  • Cycling Nowhere
  • How Big Is That Fish Eye, Really?
  • White Balance For Dummies – By A Dummy
  • Red-wings
  • Ride The Rails
  • The Great Blue Herons Are Back
  • The Cyclist
  • Street and Sky
  • Young Owls
  • Cardinals
  • The Perfect POD
  • Capture One and Lightroom: why I don’t like catalogs
  • SmugMug SEO and Google – An Epitaph
  • Birds In Winter
  • The Pergear 10mm Pancake Fisheye Lens
  • SmugMug: Where Photography Goes To Hide
  • Tuning Dials and Channel Knobs: Retro Tech
  • Why Does Duotoning Work?
  • ICC printer profiles: how does that work, exactly?
  • As Good As A Phone…?
  • Make Even More
  • An old Ford rusts peacefully in a farmer's field.A Ford’s Journey
  • Hummingbird Photography for Dummies
  • Smugmug and Google: The Taste of Failure
  • Protect your photos with an AIR GAP
  • Google Indexing: My Balloon Loses Air
  • Windows 10 Ransomware protection
  • Nicollet Island Railroad Bridge

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