Binoculars magnify the image of a distant object so that it looks much closer than it actually is. Binoculars are used in a wide variety of activities, ranging from stargazing to watching sports. Defense forces and intelligence agencies use them to observe the enemy from a safe distance. There are certain binoculars which are […]

Binoculars can be very expensive, but quite often there are discounts offered. The discounts can bring down the price from 10 to 40 dollars. The extent of the discount depends on the price, category and type of binocular.
Sometimes old stock has to be replaced and the sellers offer old stock at cheap prices. Then […]

There is no single criterion for determining the best binoculars. The binoculars which work for a birdwatcher won’t be good enough for a soldier. To choose the best binoculars there are certain basic principles which should be followed. They will help you in choosing the best binoculars for your needs.
The best binocular for you […]

Here’s a dusk-time, south-facing view of the “South Bay” (aka Santa Monica bay) from about 1,000 feet up in Temescal State Park (part of Topanga State Park). This image is actually one frame (of about 120) in a time-lapse sequence I captured in November 2005. Temescal Park is in the Santa Monica Mountains, which hug […]

Her name is Araneidae and she lives roughly six miles from me. Her pad is on multi-million-dollar property, located about 1/4 mile from the beach (in the city of Manhattan Beach).

The images above were taken 2005-09-20. These spiders only come out for a few weeks in the early fall.
The images above remind me of a new BBC nature-series […]

I added these floral images to this site recently, but I’m not sure what many of them are commonly called. The botanical garden I visited only labeled a few of their species. (The “missing” labels may very well have been hidden under leaves or bushes; I didn’t actively look for them). 
To start off, this floral species […]

About a week ago, I finally visited South Coast Botanical Gardens – about 14 miles south of my home in Gardena – and snapped a couple of shots. Many of the flowers are spring-blooming here in California, now. We had an especially “cold” winter — by So Cal standards — so “spring” really feels like a new […]