Sunrise is always the perfect time for bird photography and this location has something very special. I’m looking for a nesting pair of Sandhill Cranes. They have been sitting on one egg for about a month. It should hatch any day now and I want to be there to see and capture some images of…
Welcome to the wild world of the wetlands right before sunrise. In order to get the full effect of this wild awakening, watch the video below. Now I can show you why we came here so early in the morning. We came here to see this, a baby Sandhill Crane. Look at this little cutie…
It didn’t take long to find my first two subjects for the day. This first bird is a Northern Parula and these birds are tiny. This bird stayed in the shade of a larger tree so I lowered my shutter speed to get more light into the camera. Even at this lower shutter speed, the…
In May of 2017, I used a really cool strategy that made for an incredible day of bird photography. I talk about this strategy and quite a few other ones in my book: Bird Photography: A Beginner’s Guide to Mastering the Art of Capturing Stunning Images of Birds. What’s the strategy? I used an oncoming…
In the spring of 2017, I was lucky enough to find myself in the Florida Keys during Spring Migration. The really cool thing about this is the fact that there are thousands of birds who migrate from all over the world and end up resting in the Florida Keys. This gives any photographer a huge…
I was recently thinking about how I could help every single new photographer on the planet. This required lots of thinking….I realized my brain power wasn’t quite enough to accomplish this task so I got together with some of my photographer friends and asked them this question. What is the most ridiculous mistake you made…
I take my Nikon D500 and my new Nikkor 200mm-500mm to the Stickmarsh and test performance on birds in flight. How did this combo perform? Unbelievable good!
I take my new Nikon 200-500mm out to Viera Wetlands, a very popular birding location in south Florida to see how it performs in less than ideal photography conditions. It was overcast and raining for much of the trip but the Nikon 200-500 paired with the Nikon D500 worked perfectly! All images were captured with…
I head back to the waste water treatment plant in search of endangered Snail Kites and as usual, I find much more. The Snail Kites were nice enough to stop and pose countless times for me and my camera. What an incredible experience. All images were captured with the Nikon D500 and Tamron 150-600mm lens…
I go back to the waste water treatment plant in search of nesting Sandhill Cranes and I find much more. Red Winged Blackbirds, Boat Tailed Grackles, Common Yellow Warbler, Black Capped Night Heron and loads of endangered Snail Kites.