Tag: wildlife photography
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The Anhinga’s feeding system has steps most people don’t see. I caught the whole sequence — water to log to toss — on a trip with Cajunman Swamp Tours. First time I’d ever seen it.
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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton Five of them are in the same shadow. That one isn’t. I didn’t notice it in the field. It registered when I viewed it on the computer — one bird, same dead branch, same species,…
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“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” — John Muir Great Egret chicks reach the point where they’re climbing around the nest and getting rowdy at about three weeks. The Studio of That’s roughly where these three are. The down is still thick, the beaks are still that soft yellow,…
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I noticed movement in the water beneath the trees. Something registered immediately — that’s not birds. I picked up my camera to see what it was. It was an alligator, and it was eating something. It took a second to determine that it had an egret. The birds don’t end up above the alligators by…
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There’s a version of bird photography where you’re always chasing the rarest thing in the county. That’s never really been my game. These are stilts — not rare, not life-list exciting for most birders. But they were here, the light was workable, and I had the camera up. That’s the part of this that I…
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“Even half-asleep they had such faith in the world that had made them — tilting through the water, unruffled, sure.” — Mary Oliver, on egrets The Great Egret almost didn’t make it. In the late 1800s, these birds were hunted by the tens of thousands for their breeding plumes — the same long feathers you…
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“The dragonfly sees the world through compound eyes — reminding us that perspective is everything.” — Unknown I wasn’t expecting company. I was moving through the brush looking for something to shoot when this dragonfly landed on a twig about three feet in front of me and just stayed there. Wings out, eyes forward, completely…
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“The greatest achievement was at first, and for a time, but a dream.” — Napoleon Hill For as long as I can remember, photographing a hummingbird in flight was on my list — one of those shots that feels almost mythical until the moment it actually happens. These tiny birds move with such speed and…