exploring nature’s infinite connections
A task that fell off my radar long ago was to create a bird photography gallery for various backyard, songbirds, grassland birds, blackbirds, etc, that didn't quite fit into the other segmented categories I had. But I didn't know what to call this new gallery because...
September started with a cool nip in the air this morning, and a cooler nip is forecasted for tomorrow morning. Down to a nice 54°F/12°C. A change that I've been craving...badly. The other day I asked my wife "what temperature do we need to get rid of these...
Bird photography is something I haven't spent a lot of time on in the past few years. However, I have a lot of bird photographs in my archives. Many of them based on 35mm film, and more recently I have been redeveloping some shot on my first DSLR, a Nikon D2H. I took...
Photographs aren't going to be made while you're sleeping. A truism that continues to pop in my head just like the one of "being there." This past Memorial Day, I returned to a lake that has this little island with a willow tree on it. It's about an hour drive for me...
There is a new wildlife celebrity in Michigan. Little did this little Canada Goose gosling know when it decided to tag along with its newly formed Sandhill Crane family that it would become the center of attention for many visitors, birders and wildlife photographers...
Last year I began a task to start converting my old online galleries over to a new format based on Wordpress. It involves not only the behind the scenes moving things around organizationally, but a culling of a lot of images, as well as redeveloping many with my...
I have been itching for some more practice with wildlife and my D800. Since I don't have the Nikon expensive vertical grip, my frame rate is limited to 4 fps (frames per second) in FX mode, and the camera can do 5 fps in DX mode. The vertical grip would give me up...
This shot is from this evening where I finally had some time to sit by a pond that is about a 5-minute walk from my backyard. Normally this pond has an assortment of very skittish wood ducks, Canada geese, and mallards. I have never been able to do much wildlife...
And what a great stick it is. Heron courtship and nest-building is one of my favorite activities to watch. It is very ritualistic as the male flies off to collect materials for the nest and bring it back to the female for approval and placement. In their behaviors...