exploring nature’s infinite connections
The waterway that separates Kodiak Island, Alaska from the Alaskan peninsula and Katmai National Park is called the Shelikof Strait. Our captain during our bear trip indicated it has a nasty reputation for some very serious storms. Thirty foot seas are not uncommon...
June 1912 wasn't a very pleasant time in Katmai. Imagine not being able to see a lamp at arms length due to sulfurous volcanic ash filling the air. Remnants of the events of that time remain nearly 100 years later and became the subjects of a few of my...
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...
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...
Earlier this year, there was some banter back and forth between fellow photographers Carl Donohue and Ron Niebrugge about being able to photograph a wolverine. I read with interest as I would have liked to see one of them get a shot of one. Heck, both of these...
Carl Donohue mentioned in his comments on my previous bear blur post; ".. bears are just hard to do motion blurs with .. their gait is much of a wobble that they end up looking weird, most of the time .." I tend to agree with him, but sometimes you get lucky. By the...
Contrary to my previous posts on high ISOs to get my shutter speed up, for the effect I wanted on this image - I wanted the shutter speed to be pretty slow. In this case, about 1/3 of a second. To get the shutter speed slower, I went to ISO 160, and cranked the...
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...
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...