I had an opportunity to travel to the Philippines for work, and decided since I was going all that way, I'd add a little extra time to explore new ...
Texas Gulf Coast Birding – Part 2 of 2
This is a continuation of Part 1... After a few days in the Corpus Christi area, I headed south to the Rio Grande Valley. One might even argue ...
Texas Gulf Coast Birding – Part 1 of 2
I just returned from a 10-day visit to the Texas Gulf Coast, with a focus on finding and photographing birds. Typically, when I take trips like this, ...
Thermal Birding
Minor updates in Sept 2024 What if you had a special power revealing every bird as a glowing spot of light? Birds obscured behind a tangle of ...
Photographing Pelagic Birds
A large number of birds spend nearly their entire lives at sea - only begrudgingly landing on remote islands to breed for a couple months a year. The ...
A Morning at Ankeny…
Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge - located just south of Salem, Oregon - is one of a handful dotting the Willamette Valley. While these refuges can be ...
Enchanted
Growing up in the lowlands, I was sold an image of mountains. Mountains had pointed peaks, steep granite cliffs, gnarled fanciful forests, tranquil ...
Time-Lapse Photography
Sometimes, the most interesting aspect of a scene is impossible to capture in a still frame - swirling clouds, the movement of tides, patterns of ...
The Bears of Bella Coola
Halfway up the British Columbia coast - between Vancouver and Prince Rupert - is a wild locale that's easy to miss, but impossible to forget - Bella ...
Blending Images in Photoshop
Sometimes, there simply isn't any way to get the image you want with a single frame. Most often, this will occur when an image has a very high ...