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. [...]
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 [...]
One of my favorite winter activities is locating and photographing American Bald Eagles. Their population is growing every year near my home in southeast Minnesota and is evidenced by spotting more and more of their unmistakable huge nests along the Mississippi river. Add their numbers to those of migrating eagles and once in awhile I [...]
My favorite times of day to photograph birds are the early mornings or late afternoons. Why? Because the light from the sun is like no other. It’s warm. Imbued with the richness of reds, orange and yellow, it makes every subject I photograph seem to glow. The starkness of the shadows at that time are [...]
Black, the absence of all light reflecting from an object. Black is another sometimes very difficult color to photograph because just like white, it can be difficult to get detail in something so dark. Many birds, insects, and other things in nature are black. We usually tend to think of black things as bad or [...]
This past summer I seized the opportunity to head to Panama for a week of birding and exploring. I stayed at the Canopy Tower thanks to a wonderful “green season” package. That term is just a clever way of disguising their wet season, but that generally only consists of a brief shower in the afternoon. [...]
“Brig”, as it is affectionately known by most of the birders and photographers who frequent it, is the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge – Brigantine Division, located in Oceanville, NJ. I thought it would be interesting to talk about how just a single day there can be so incredibly productive and exciting for birders [...]
I took my first trip to John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge this morning. It is certainly an interesting NWR as it’s viewing distance from Philadelphia International Airport. You can see planes taking off and landing in the background, yet there is an abundance of wildlife. It’s so great that we can have some of these [...]
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) [...]
The next in the series of colors, Blue. In searching through my collection of photographs it’s obvious blue seems to be the most common color followed up by green which makes sense with all the sky and water in many photos I’ve taken. You can see whether the camera is pointing up, down or almost [...]
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 [...]
My father and I just finsihed up a 3 day trip to camp at Elk Neck State Park in Maryland. This is also near Conowingo Dam which spans the Susquehanna River just above where it enteres the Chesapeake Bay. This was our first time to Elk Neck park and it was a pretty nice place. [...]
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