Mark Smith Photography

If you know your way around a Nikon camera body, then you might not find this post useful. However, If you are new to Nikon, and you find that the focus points you see through the viewfinder are frozen or stuck, DON’T PANIC! Your camera […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Find out why nature photography is fun, exciting and unpredictable. Join me at a waste water treatment plant in South Florida where I put my Nikon D500 and Tamron 150-600 mm V1 to the test. We went looking for Sandhill Cranes but found so much […]

Every once in a while that beautiful temptress known as “the ocean” calls my name and like a man who is head over heels in love, I blindly answer her call. The ocean is a magical place. Anyone who has had the sheer pleasure of […]

When you hear the term “Death Valley,” what comes to mind? I always envisioned a huge arid landscape filled with nothing more than sand, the classic wavering look of a heat wave on the horizon, the unmistakable sound of a hawk somewhere above me, a […]