WHITE WINGED CROSSBILL INVASION
White winged crossbills are usually birds of the boreal forests of Canada. This year we have seen an unprecedented invasion of these birds here in Michigan, they have been spotted in virtually every county in the state. Crossbills have developed an unusual crossed bill which they use to extract the seeds of conifer trees which…
IMAGES FROM THE FROZEN NORTH
Last week I travelled up to Northern Minnesota in search of northern bird species whose idea of going south for the winter is coming down to the far northern edge of the US. I picked a great time to do this because it was brutally cold when I was up there. One morning it was…
SNOWFLAKE PHOTOGRAPHY
Sorry I havn’t been able to do a post in awhile, but between orders for the holidays and of course the holidays themselves, this is an especially crazy time of the year for me. I have been trying to photograph snowflakes for quite a few years, with limited success. This fall, I came across the…
THE WORLDS MOST ENDANGERED WARBLER
In 2006, The Audubon Society listed the tiny Kirtland’s Warbler as the fifth most endangered bird species, behind the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, California Condor, Whooping Crane, and Gunnison Sage Grouse. in 1989, the total population was estimated to be around 200 total birds. The main reason for the decline of this species is the loss of…
PHOTOGRAPHING FALL COLOR IN MICHIGAN’S UPPER PENNINSULA
Due to the fact that I had shows scheduled on the weekends when Michigan’s upper peninsula’s fall color is at it’s peak (the Porcupines usually peak during the last week of September and the rest of the upper typically fires up around the first weekend of October) I really thought I wouldn’t be able to…
CAMOUFLAGE IN NATURE
Here are some examples of different creatures using camouflage to blend in with their environment.
More High Speed Photography
Basically the way that I am able to freeze such high speed action is by using a special electronic flash that puts out an incredibly short burst of light (between 1/15,000 to 1/50,000 of a sec.). This brief pulse of light is what freezes the subject. Most commercially available flash systems produce a seemingly fast…
High Speed Flash Photography Hummingbirds in Flight
After my trip to the Galapagos Islands, we took a few extra days and went into the cloud forests of Ecuador, mainly to photograph hummingbirds. Ecuador has 130 of the world’s 330 species of hummingbirds. I visited many of the well known lodges in the Mindo valley and ended up photographing about a dozen different…
THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
I have to say the Galapagos Islands is nature photography Nirvana. It really was unlike anything I had experienced before. I have been blessed on many occasions to have many of my subject’s accept me as part of their natural world, but that has typically come after many hours, days, weeks, months, or even years…
HERE ARE SOME MORE BIRDS FROM THIS SPRING
Well I just returned from my trip to the Galapagos Islands and the cloud forests of Ecuador. It was a great trip and a real adventure. I shot over 6500 pictures over the course of two weeks. It will take me some time to get through the editing process but in the mean time I…