It is quite difficult to portray animal emotions in photographs or reveal something about their nature in a fraction of a second. It is so much easier with human facial expressions that we associate with happiness, sorrow, or anger. Even colors in photographs, or the...
Notes from the Woods
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Bear reflections
I was fortunate enough to capture a few scenes with some nice reflections of these coastal brown bears (aka. grizzly bears aka. ursus arctos ). It seemed to be a rare occurrence when a bear would walk along the water's edge and at the same time have the water calm...
Grizzly bear spring cub
Another high ISO image here, ISO 2500, not necessarily used for a high action moment, but simply because of fairly low light. Shot at 400mm at f4, even at ISO 2500 my shutter speed was only 1/200 sec. This cute little guy was also scratching quite a bit. At...
Grizzly Bear catching salmon
Here's an action shot that I liked from Katmai, photographed at Geographic Harbor. The importance of high shutter speeds really hit home on this trip, and the benefits of high ISO capabilities in cameras. This one is ISO 1250 on my D700, which yielded a 1/1250 sec...
Submerged Grizzly bear
Before my trip to Alaska, I made a post about some photos I had hoped to obtain. They weren't really based upon anything other than my imagination running wild. I had never been there before, so they weren't based on much education about the place either, what...