I live in an area surrounded by farm fields and woods. My yard seems to attract Cardinals along with other song birds. I provide water and food plus I have several trees and bushes which the birds use to build their nests in or hide from Hawks. A couple of years ago a pair of [...]
Want to photograph the Atlantic Puffin? The best place in United States is Machias Seal Island, off the coast of Maine. My son, Ray Hennessy and I made the trip there recently. We left southern New Jersey early on a Sunday morning getting to Jonesboro, Maine that evening. We stayed at the Blueberry Patch Motel [...]
My family spends the winter months (January to April) in Florida to escape the cold in New Jersey. This past winter Florida had below normal temps but it was still better than the cold and snow in New Jersey. The cold Florida winter took it’s toll on the fish, there was a large fish kill [...]
Most of my photography is done with available light. I have experimented with flash photography resulting in some astonishing pictures but it seems to take away from the natural look. When I first started shooting nature I was just glad to get an animal in the frame and for it to be fairly sharp. As [...]
Sometimes you are lucky to get really close enough to a bird to take a photo of just it’s head or upper body, like the Pileated Woodpecker shown above. Depending on the lens you are using, this can be one foot away or 30 feet away. I have taken songbird photos with a 50mm lens [...]
Taking great photographs of wild birds perched on a tree branch or standing on the ground is a challenge but even more challenging is to capture a bird in action. Slight actions from birds singing, spreading their wings to land or take off, to actions like birds battling to defend their territory, swooping down to [...]
Actually Al Mueller’s post here in Nature’s Domain about the Bald Eagles feeding in the frozen Mississippi River at a spot warmed by a generating plant gave me the idea for this topic. Many birds are opportunists when it comes to finding food. They look for easy pickings from either human created or natural conditions. [...]
In keeping with this weeks Colors in Nature theme, being the color blue, I have selected photos of the Blue Jay. Most of these were taken in my backyard. To attract the Blue Jay I put whole peanuts in the bird feeder. The Jays love these and will take the whole peanut (in the shell) [...]
I always wanted to shoot macro photos of nature but I didn’t want to spend the money involved with macro lenses. I know you get what you pay for but my main interest is regular wildlife shots so I purchased a set of Kenko extension tubes for under $200.00. From the reviews on these they [...]
My son Ray has already done a post on this but I will add a little more. We took our camper and stayed at the Elk Neck State campground so we wouldn’t have as long to get to the Conowingo Dam. This is a great campground to stay in if you are visiting the area [...]
I don’t usually go out looking for deer to photograph but I do keep a lookout for them when I’m out photographing. The White-tail Deer can be very shy near humans especially around the hunting season. If they frequent an area like a park where there are always a lot of people around, they seem [...]
My family and I went camping last week at Trap Pond State Park in Delaware. Our site was right on the lake and I keep my canoe at the water’s edge. Can’t beat this for convenience. This lake is near the bottom of Delaware and has the northernmost grove of Bald Cypress Trees in the [...]
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