On my trip down to Aransas National Wildlife Refuge I took photos of so many different species of birds, I decided to break it into two blog posts to cover the highlights. In the previous post, I covered several birds that I saw at the refuge, but I also saw many around the town of… Read More Gone Birding, Part 2
Winter is a great time to see birds on the Texas coast. There are many birds that spend the winter in the mild coastal weather as well as the many birds that live there year round. I have a desire to up my wildlife photography game and I recently bought a Nikon Z6III, which has… Read More Gone Birding, Part 1
Fog can be a very fun and useful tool for photography. It can help simplify an image by obscuring the background, which helps your subject stand out. It can remove color from a scene, enabling you to focus on the shapes. It can add mystery to your image inviting the viewer to imagine what is… Read More Fog on the Bay
Friday afternoon was cloudy and I didn’t have work, so I wandered down to a city park to see if there were any birds to shoot. There is a pond that is getting a bit low on water, but it usually attracts a lot of ducks. When I got to the park bench I found… Read More Urban Wildlife
I went hiking at Colorado Bend State Park the day after Thanksgiving. I wasn’t expecting to take beautiful photos and was mostly there for the hike. While I love hiking at this particular park, I have struggled taking good photos there. But just the same I hiked along with my full camera backpack and hoped… Read More Longevity
I recently sold a camera (Nikon Z50) and bought a new camera (Nikon Z6III), mainly because it has much better auto-focus and high-speed shooting performance for wildlife. So far I am very happy with the auto-focus and speed performance as it is everything I expected. But it also has another feature that I have been… Read More What is Pixel Shift and is it any Good?
I got up early Saturday and went out to Inks Lake ostensibly to shoot wildlife. There is rocky place to pull over and park near the edge of the lake if you have a high enough clearance vehicle, and I figured I would go there and shoot birds until the park opened a little later.… Read More Birds and Foliage
Often I come across a location that I think could be photographed well under the right conditions. I keep coming back to these locations in my mind and in person trying sort out what to do with it. One such location was the overlook along the hiking trail in my previous post that I eventually… Read More What to do with the Pecan Flats Trail
This time of year the sun rises quite late, for me anyway, and this made it easy to get out to the wildlife refuge and hike up to an overlook before the sun crested the eastern horizon. There were sadly no clouds, so there was no predawn color-show to be there for, but I knew… Read More Dawn’s Early Light
There has been a comet called Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in the evening sky lately and I had never tried to photograph a comet before. So, on a clear-sky Sunday afternoon I went to the Warbler Vista section of the wildlife refuge for some hiking with the plan to end up at the sunset deck (which coincidentally faces… Read More A Comet from the Wildlife Refuge
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