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
In addition to polar bears, another large mammal that is common to Svalbard is the walrus. I saw walruses multiple times on my trip, but the most significant time was when we took a zodiac ride close to the shore of a small island where a large herd was hanging out. This was a mornings… Read More Walrus
On the NorthEast side of the island of Spitsbergen at a place called Alkefjellet, there are high cliffs and ledges used by birds to breed and raise chicks in the summer months. The main bird on the cliff was the BrĂ¼nnich’s Guillemot and there were tens of thousands of them on the cliffs, in the… Read More The Bird Cliffs of Alkefjellet
I saw polar bears on my trip to Svalbard. I saw a lot of polar bears. The archipelago crawls with polar bears. I am not an experienced wildlife photographer and my camera is not considered an excellent wildlife photography camera, but I will tell you about my experience and what I tried. First, I want… Read More Polar Bears!
I have been on an adventure and I intend to blog about it over the next few weeks. My big adventure for this year was a trip to Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago and territory of Norway. The main city on Svalbard is Longyearbyen, and it is the northern most significant city (population >1000) in the… Read More My Summer Adventure
I am planning on going somewhere to do some wildlife photography later this year and it is something that I am not great at. So, I have been trying to get practice with the wildlife that lives around me. I do have a lot of great (not so wild) wildlife photos of napping dogs around… Read More Ducks and Auto-focus Modes
I have been trying to practice a little wildlife photography recently. And where I live, that pretty much means birds or deer. So, I walked around the refuge on a cloudy Sunday afternoon and hoped for a little light to make it through the clouds. I chose the Balcones Canyonlands Wildlife Refuge because at this… Read More Painted Bunting and Friends
Some Bewick’s Wrens took up residence in a decorative birdhouse on my back porch. These little birds are not very bothered by me and flutter back and forth as I sit there near their birdhouse. They occasionally sit and study me for a second to be sure that I am not a cat or something,… Read More A Wren Family
Saturday was a sunny and breezy cool day so I went to the lake. I figured I would hike around the shore and shoot (photos of) water birds and then hang out for sunset and hope for a cloud or two. This is a good time of year to shoot water fowl around here as… Read More Sun and Fowl
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