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Winter Wildlife in Florida

Winter Wildlife in Florida

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 [...]

Working with Available Light

Working with Available Light

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 [...]

Avian action photography

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 [...]

Birds are Opportunists

Birds are Opportunists

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. [...]


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