Brent Pennington: Photographer

We’re not talking deep art or mind-blowing images here today.  Some might even call these photos mere snapshots, and I’m not going to take offense

 I’m fascinated by the concept of convergent evolution, where wholly unrelated species develop the same trait or strategy for survival.   reflexed stonecrop

BRENT PENNINGTON – Trees rise from rich undergrowth at the Eales Preserve on Moosic Mtn, PA, on the morning of 28 May 2024. BRENT PENNINGTON

BRENT PENNINGTON – Apple blossoms at the Berkshire Botanincal Gardens, Stockbridge, MA, on the morning of 12 May 2024. BRENT PENNINGTON – Cherry tree branch

Just a simple click as I was heading home down the trial after some early-evening birding.  The light was warm and cutting through the spring

Earlier this spring – a couple of weeks before the native wildflowers were blossoming up north – I made the trek down to Kennet Square,

This post is filed under “nature” instead of “wildflowers,” because these are not wild orchids – something I’ve yet been fortunate enough to find. These

Trekking along the East Branch of Wallenpaupack Creek while shooting some winter landscapes, the fine details in the ice caught my eye.  The long crystals,

A callback to the photo I shared a few weeks ago, another image from the Eales Preserve: dappled light on a fern frond and scrub

The almanacs and soothsayers predicted that this winter would be cold, and so far they’ve been correct.  In the spirit of these long, chilled weeks,

Scrub oak is one of my favorite subjects in black and white.  That isn’t a judgement on the species in color; its hues throughout the

I don’t think there’s a photographer – or even a nature lover – who can resist a backlit leaf.  It’s true at any time of

It would be easy to look at this and think of it as nature in decay; the ferns turning yellow at the end of the

Scrub oak and ferns, mountain laurel and low-bush blueberry.  There are some of the defining features of the pine barrens, a low and almost alien