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Author: Michael Farrell
A Little Night Music…
A wary Coyote sequence and a Skunk and a Raccoon at the seep. Late January.
Click the forward arrow quickly to animate the Trickster…
Looking Back in TIme
Three historic aerials provided by Dr. David Wedin, School of Natural Resources at UN-L.
MLK Day on the Prairie…
Here is a slideshow of a few more pictures of animals taken by the game cameras at the prairie…
Selected from well over a thousand images shot since I last retrieved the image cards on the 9th of January
Ghost Coyote
Skunk
Raccoon Family
Button Buck
The Big Buck
Graceful Doe
Coyote on the Prowl 1
Coyote on the Prowl 2
One Big Rabbit
Owl on a Log
Coyote Tries the Seep
Young Deer at the Seep 1
Young Deer at the Seep 2
Young Deer at the Seep 3
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Ghost Coyote
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Skunk
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Raccoon Family
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Button Buck
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The Big Buck
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Graceful Doe
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Coyote on the Prowl 1
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Coyote on the Prowl 2
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One Big Rabbit
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Owl on a Log
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Coyote Tries the Seep
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Young Deer at the Seep 1
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Young Deer at the Seep 2
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Young Deer at the Seep 3
A Few Nine Mile Critters
Two Deer
A Feline…
Weasel? Mink?
Coyote in the Snow
Here are four photos from this afternoon’s trek out to the prairie to see what the game cameras have seen the past week or so. The coyote was recorded yesterday morning
New Year’s Day
While it may be snowing and bitterly cold on this, the first day of the New Year, we can look forward to seeing the signs of Spring not so far into the future. While we wait you can whet your appetite by looking at the new portfolio of photos labeled Spring – Equinox > April on the Home page.
For even more of an incremental unfolding of the seasons go to the A Circle Around the Sun link in the header above and look at all of March and April’s offerings.
One Year to the Day…
On December 14, 2012 I began this project to photograph Nine Mile Prairie every few days for an entire year. The first photo I took was of Milkweed Pods all brown and dried at the edge of the big draw. This morning I went out on the prairie again at dawn. Here is one photo from this morning to bring it all full circle…
Dedicated to the one I love…
This website is dedicated to my Paramour
Lynne Ireland
who was always happy to see me when I got home…
From a Song by Steve Earle
titled
Days Aren’t Long Enough
Another year has come and gone
Another circle ’round the sun
Another thousand tears have fallen
I don’t ever count ’em ’cause
I’m surrounded by your love
And days are never long enough
Four more seasons on parade
Show their colors then they fade
But that won’t happen to us, darlin’
We’ll remember how it was
Then begin again because
Days are never long enough
Time’s never late
Isn’t bound by our fate
Try as we may
Love might never be found if we wait
Until the sun comes up
On another day my love
Days are never long enough
Time’s never late
Isn’t bound by our fate
Try as we may
Love might never be found if we wait
Until the sun comes up
On another day my love
Days are never long enough
A Circle Around the Sun…
Nine Mile Prairie is one of the last remaining modestly large parcels of Tall Grass Prairie in Nebraska to escape the great plowup in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is located five miles west and four miles north of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s city campus. Owned by the university since 1983 its 230 acres is home to an amazing variety of plants, birds and other animals and insects. It has been used for prairie ecology research since the 1920s. ( http://snr.unl.edu/aboutus/where/fieldsites/ninemileprairie.asp )
I first started to go out to Nine Mile Prairie shortly after the university acquired it. Over the years, from time to time, it has been a place I’ve photographed with a large format film camera, as well as a place to just walk and see how the prairie once looked…
In the fall of 2012 shortly before my birthday I bought a Nikon D800 and some lenses and accessories. I had decided to teach myself digital photography and to learn about creating websites and blogs. The first place I went to try out my new camera was Nine Mile Prairie.
After that first trip with the Nikon I decided to dedicate my sixty-fifth year on earth to trying to get to know the prairie in a very personal and intimate way through photography. I’ve been photographing the prairie twice a week since late December of 2012. I’m launching this site as I close in on one full year of effort, one more circle around the sun…
I’ll be posting images from my year-long endeavor over the coming weeks and months – as a series of slide show portfolios, pages of images organized by month, as well as some personal observations in the blog section about Nine Mile Prairie and what my experiences have been during this past year.
I welcome your comments and observations, too.
Michael Farrell
You can see more of my work at http://www.michaelfarrell.com/
I also am a partner in the Platte Basin Time-lapse Project: http://www.plattebasintimelapse.com/
All images on ninemileprairie.com are copyright 2013/2021 by Michael Farrell. All images have been identified with an invisible embedded and traceable watermark to discourage misappropriation. For permission to use image files or to purchase fine art prints contact me at mfarrell.1st@gmail.com