Photographing wildlife from birds to bears has been a humbling experience. Wildlife photography is one genre where just showing up is only a fraction of a successful photograph. Of course, like other niches, there is planning, but wildlife requires specialized gear (read: expensive) and more than just getting the subject in the frame. I have learned, after many mistakes and …
Light and Reflection
Light is all important in photography. Without it, no picture. When photographing wildlife, you can use natural or artificial light to illuminate the colors of the bird. Feathers are basically little prisms that reflect light. In the case of this Ruby-throated hummingbird, the light in coming in from the side, not directly head on and the gorget is illuminated red. …
Not a photograph, yet
Standing along the reserve boardwalk, these Chilean flamingos were side by side wading for food. As they sifted through the water I was watching as other photographers frantically snapped their photographs. The flamingos started to move away, still paired off, and I could see the other folks with their cameras beginning to move off to the next thing that caught …
The amazing Pileated woodpecker
I have been on the hunt to photograph the Pileated woodpecker for sometime. My home is to suburbanized for pileated woodpeckers to hang around. I knew that if I was to find them, I had to go to the woodlands where they have been heard drumming. Pileated woodpeckers nest in late spring to early April. They excavate large cavities in dead …