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
I wandered down to Padre Island National Seashore a couple of weeks ago to see the beach and do some kayaking in the Laguna Madre. Padre Island is a barrier island just off the Texas coast and the strip of water between the island and the mainland is shallow and calm and ideal for some… Read More Kayaking with Shorebirds
In the Arctic there is a bird that looks like it face-planted in a clown’s make-up kit. People love to see this bird and when I was on my expedition there was quite the talk about whether or not we would find them. It turns out that on our rainy last afternoon we did finally… Read More A Puffin Piece
After icebergs we returned to the fjords in the north of Spitsbergen island. I woke up early, as usual, and went up on deck to see what there was to see. I could see land in the distance, but on the other side of the boat the sun was shining bright and there were seabirds… Read More A Return to the Fjords
After leaving Kvitoya, we sailed all “night” to find the sea ice and I woke up a little after 5:00AM and wandered up on deck to see if we had found the ice. We had indeed found lots of ice and there was even some sunlight making its way through the fog on the east… Read More 81° 43’ 29” North
On my Svalbard expedition, we did multiple excursions to see one of the main features of the landscape: ice. Ice in the form of icebergs and glaciers. And after the morning of being harassed by birds, we loaded up into the zodiacs and headed for the ice to look around. I don’t get to shoot… Read More Ice, Ice, and More Ice
Jason Frels 