Green Heron @ 300mm
As you may have gathered from my last post, about f/4 goodness, I’m shooting wildlife at 300mm these days. Specifically the 300L f/4 IS, which arrive at my door on Monday. Yesterday was my first outing with it; I’ll definitely write a full review once I’ve owned it for a while, but right off the [...]
Carolina Wrens
Sometimes when you’re out, you end up with critters everywhere you look. Of course, having a likely habitat nearby is a good way to help those odds, but even then, you sometimes just get luckier than usual. These shots are from my morning outing to the marsh yesterday, and it was one of those mornings:
Simple Clicks – Nesting Swallows
Digging back about a week here, to some files that got left in the camera after the 4th of July was over. Shot these that afternoon, before the festivities began. These guys are nesting in a box at my grandparent’s house, and although my grandmother stated that they are Purple Martins, I’m pretty sure they’re [...]
Simple Clicks – Belted Kingfishers
Driving the dirt roads that surround the marsh this morning, I did one of those manouvers for which photographers are famous – you know, the one where you suddenly (but as quietly as possible) hit the breaks, throw the car into reverse, and back up with your head out the window, hoping like hell that [...]
How I spent my first day on vacation
Other people go to the shore, or sleep late and spend the morning sitting on the porch with a good cup of coffee. Me, I’m a bit odd, I suppose – I spent mine in the middle of a swamp.
Outside on the 4th of July
I spent sunrise on the 4th of July on the grounds of Binghamton University’s Nature Preserve. Although BU is my alma mater, I’ve visited perhaps twice since graduating almost three years ago. During that time, I had forgotten just how rich the Nature Preserve is – although in my defense, when I was there I [...]
Simple Clicks – Oxbow Lake
Checked out Oxbow Lake with my friend and fellow photog Paul (and his wife Chris) – I’d been there once before, about a year ago, on a morning where the fog was so thick that I could hardly see the water from the shore! At the time I kind of wrote the site off. Then [...]
Simple Clicks – Fords Pond
Starting of July on a high note – actually a really high note, as far as wildlife photography goes! Here’s some from Fords last week; a very happy Red Squirrel eating an apple, and the first Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker that I’ve seen in PA.
Ricketts Glen
I’ve been visiting Ricketts Glen for almost five years now, with the DPChallenge.com annual get-together – between 10 and 20 photogs who come in from around the region and descend on the park with a startling array of gear and a huge picnic spread. So when going through some information in a guide book a [...]
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
I’ve got Fridays off during the summer, which makes them the perfect time to grab the camera and head out, without the crowds or demands of the weekend. Seeing as this was my first long weekend of the summer, I figured I’d do it up big and spend the day hitting some places that are [...]
