Sensational Center
The cone flower is a summer treat in my gardens. The tiny seed heads remind me of little candles. This flower is a bird magnet to my yard. I love the color and texture of this flower and I hope you enjoy it as well.
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Birding Anniversary
Hey Everyone, It was about one year ago today that I first became interested in birds and bird photography. And I’m SO happy I did, because I have seen some incredible places and things, and have met some awesome people. It was during a similar snowstorm to the one NJ is experiencing right now, that [...]
Waterfowl – Mergansers (Part 1 in a series on Waterfowl of NJ)
This is the first article of series of 4 or so I will be doing on Waterfowl that you can find in New Jersey. That takes in a lot of territory. Raptors and beautiful songbirds and herons and egrets and ibises are exciting and wonderful subjects in their own right, but waterfowl are equally fascinating. [...]
New Jersey waiting for the March return of the Osprey
Many photographers, birders and wildlife enthusiast await each year for late march, the return of the Osprey. With the exception of the fish most are excited for its return. For us on the Jersey shore this large raptor can be found in many nesting areas. These powerful raptors can amaze and captivate an audience with their ability to dive [...]
GETTING STARTED WITH DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
I spend a lot of time outdoors chasing nature with a SLR camera, big lens, and various equipment hoping, to get the job done. I probably spend as much time talking to people about photography because big lens draw people who think you have all the answers. Well no one does. That prompted me to [...]
Avian action photography
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 [...]
Machias Seal Island
After churning through Atlantic waters off the coast of Maine for about an hour, the island appears in the distance. At first it is nothing but a dark speck on the horizon, but it grows and grows until you come to a stop a few hundred feet off the shore. By this point Atlantic Puffins [...]
Nature’s Colors Series: Yellow
The last and final color in the nature’s colors series, yellow. It can be both subtle and bright, it’s another quite common natural color, at least some hue of yellow. It’s so close to shifting to orange or red in a sunset but it’s there. A yellow bird can easily blend into it’s surroundings or [...]
Wings and Wild Things of Argentina
Argentina is a place that might not normally be at the top of a wildlife photograhers must go list. Maybe this post will change that. Over a week and a half this past Christmas and the new year we traveled to several places throughout the country and saw some incredible places, wildlife, and birds. [...]
Raptors at Forsythe
Winter brings the arrival of a staggering variety of raptors to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. While the conditions are difficult for birders and nature photographers, patience and time spent there will be rewarded with some amazing displays and the ability to see a wide variety of predatory birds in action. The biting [...]
Nature’s Colors Series: Brown
Well, this color isn’t that exciting but it is incredibly common in nature, brown. A bit on the dull side, sometimes even boring. Brown doesn’t stand out too much and yet it can still make for some dramatic views or hard to find animals and birds. When the sun hits something brown just right it [...]
Nature’s Colors Series: Red
Red: bright, vibrant, powerful, and eye-catching. Those are just some of the descriptive words that come to mind when viewing something red. Red can paint an entire sky during a sunrise or sunset or make a tiny bird stand out like, well, a bright red bird in a green tree. During the fall color change [...]
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