Image titled: Power of Flight
Neal Maine/ PacificLight Images
Snow Geese
Lower Columbia River
Nov. 2017
About Snow Geese:
In the winter and during migration and winter in coastal marshes, estuaries, freshwater marshes, agricultural country. Forages mostly by walking in shallow water or on land. In summer on Arctic tundra usually within 5 miles of coast, near lakes or rivers. Usually feeds in flocks, sometimes mixed with other kinds of geese. Please go to http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/snow geese for more info
Neal Maine habitat lecture
Fairweather House and Gallery
612 Broadway
Seaside, Oregon
Fun Fact:
Nearly every month Neal Maine, naturalist, biologist and wildlife photographer, lectures about the ecology of the local habitat at the Fairweather Gallery.
Forever honored to show his PacificLight Images in the Gallery.
Forever humbled to have Neal Maine lecture in the Gallery.
Proceeds to support NCLC.
And, too, Neal Maine has introduced plans for a new open edition of a coffee table book of selected images from PacificLight Images.
The book will be available on special order.
The book is to support North Coast Land Conservancy, NCLC.
Neal Maine was a biology teacher for 30 years with the Seaside School District. After retiring from teaching, he served on the founding board for the North Coast Land Conservancy and served as its director for 12 years. Maine currently spends most of his time prowling the coastal edge as a wildlife photographer and helping others appreciate “living in paradise” on the North Coast through presentations and exhibits.
Image titled: Pray Prey
Peregrine Falcon
Neal Maine/ PacificLight Images
Location: Del Rey Beach
Gearhart Oregon
November 2017
About Peregrine Falcons;
Habitat Open country: cliffs (mountains to coast). Often near water, especially along coast, and migrants may fly far out to sea.
One of the world’s fastest birds; in power-diving from great heights to strike prey, the Peregrine may possibly reach 200 miles per hour. Regarded by biologists alike as one of the noblest and most spectacular of all birds of prey. Please go to http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/ peregrine falcon for more info
Image title: Flying the North Coast
Purplish Copper
Neal Maine/ PacificLight Images
November 2017
The Purplish Copper is a hardy butterfly, visible when most other species are absent. Adults visit Heliotrope, Aster and many other flowers. They often show up in late and early winter in places where the species has not otherwise been seen all year. The larval hosts in moist areas where Knotweed (Polygonum) and Dock (Rumex) grow.
Neal Maine has re-introduced the image titled: Whale Within, a photograph from a wildlife trip to the high Arctic for the Alaska Wilderness League.
Available at Fairweather’s through December, 2017
Proceeds in support of North Coast Land Conservancy, NCLC.
To view images by Neal Maine/ PacificLight Images, please go to wwww.fairweatherhouseandgallery.com/ …artists/ …Neal Maine
“Unless otherwise noted, images are presented as they were photographed. Slight adjustment by cropping, lightening or darkening may have been used, but the photo subject is presented as recorded in the Oregon coastal landscapes.” A Certificate of Authenticity is provided with each copyrighted and signed image. –PacificLight Images, Neal Maine
