FOCUS AND FIRE
Welcome to Mary and John Chlopek’s Portfolio site. We are retired folks hiding out in rural Wallowa County Oregon. After decades of busy work schedules, we retired to beautiful Wallowa County for the next chapter of our lives. We have found a beautiful place to spend our golden years and it has inspired us to pursue more fully our interests in photography, ceramics and fabric art.
We invite you to wander through our galleries, take your time, and enjoy what speaks to you. We would love to hear your feedback.
Wallowa mts
Winter Horse
Winter Cottonwood
Natasha
Soldier Bar on fire
Henry Master of the Porch
Mt St Elias
Grande Ronde Bighorn
Grand Canyon
Ruby Peak
Okavango Delta, Botswana
Okavango Sunset
Lone Gulch Thunderhead
Wallowa Lake
Horse in Fall
View from our window in winter
Rowans Horses.
Wallowa Mountains at Sunrise
Winter Barn.
A Sulphur Crested Night Heron on the beach in Mexico
Red Tail on Barn.
Formation Flight
Sunset Pelican
Carmine Bee-eaters (Merops nubicoides) in the Okavango Delta.
Winter Kestrel.
Alert Kestrel.
Bodyguards.
Roseate Spoonbills
Seafood snack
Pelican in repose
Flicker
Cliff Swallow
Red-tail soaring
Aerobatic Cliff Swallow
Wind check
Grande Ronde Wild Turkey
Wallowa lake Eagle
Secretary Birds (Sagittarius serpentarius) , south Serengeti
Carmine Beeeaters, Okavango Delta
Pied Kingfisher
Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis), Okavango Delta
Saddle-beaked Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis) Botswana
Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta),, Okavango Delta
Heron and friend, Okavango Delta
Rude awakening, Botswana
Swainson's Spur Fowl Botswana
African Fish Eagle, Okavango Delta
Striped Kingfisher. Okavango Delta
Jackal, Botswana
The King at rest, Okovango Delta Botswana
Lion Cub, Botswana
Young Male in the rain, Botswana
Cheetah on Termite mound, Botswana
Reclining Cheetah, Botswana
Baby Warthogs, Botswana
Baby giraffe, Botswana
Adult warthog, Botswana
Rainbow Giraffe, Kenya
Cape buffalo in the rain, Okovango Delta
Botswana Zebra
Male Kudu, (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) Okavango Delta
Impala, Botswana
Tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus)
Red lechwe, or southern lechwe (Kobus leche), Okovango Delta
Sable Antelope(Hippotragus niger) Botswana
Sunbathing Croc (Crocodylus niloticus) , Masai Mara, Kenya
White Heron, Okovango Delta
A Bat-eared fox(Otocyon megalotis), Botswana
Young Impala, Botswana
Young Bull Elephant, Botswana
Mara Leopard
Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl (Bubo lacteus) Okovango Delta
Black-necked stilts, Kenya
Carmine Beeeater, Botswana.
European Roller, Botswana
African Kesterel, Botswana
Lilac-breasted Roller Coracias caudatus Botswana
Martial eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus) , Masai Mara
View from our tent, Okovango Delta
Leopard, South serengeti
Zebra, South Serengeti
Male lion hunting, Botswana
Red billed Hornbill, Botswana
Pied Kingfisher , Okavango Delta
Male Impala, Okavango Delta
Baboons, Botswana
Monitor Lizard Okavango Delta
Goofy Hippo Okavango Delta
Pangolin (Smutsia gigantea), Botswana
White-backed Vulture (Gyps africanus) Botswana
Botswana Baboon (Papio kindae)Botswana
Spur-winged Goose (Plectropterus gambensis), Botswana
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