Another Trip Around the Wildlife Loop

  We were scouting the Wildlife Loop in Custer State Park and pulled off the road to watch the Bison as they were grazing in the early morning light.  Across the road a pair of Mountain Blue Birds were feeding their little ones in a nesting box and were landing on the fence before entering the nest.  When I took this image I saw the caterpillar she was caring but had no idea there was a spider sitting on...

The Wildlife Loop

  We ended the day driving the wildlife loop in Custer State Park.  As the late afternoon light started fade we came up on a group of pronghorn bucks grazing. The K&M group got just a taste today of the photography opportunities this area has to offer and I’m sure they’re wonder what tomorrow will bring. Nikon D4, Nikkor 200-400f4.0 VR...

Go Low

  My time in Florida seemed just fly by.  It was a real treat to spend the morning on the beach photographing the seeming endless supply of shorebirds. It takes some work to get a clean shot of these little critters as they quickly go back and forth along the beach feeding.  The key is to get down to their level and photograph them straight on allowing the backgrounds to go very soft.  This make the birds...

On the Beach

  It was a nice morning to be on the beach watching the tide come in.  There were plenty of birds feeding on the shoreline giving me and the K&M participants multiple subjects to photograph. We must have looked a little out of place on the beach crawling around on our stomachs keeping the lens very low to the ground to create the background like the one you see the the above of the Black-bellied Plover. I...

The Kids

  These little Wood Storks were pretty entertaining to watch as they interacted with each other. It was non stop action between these siblings for the short time I spent watching their nesting site. This is defiantly on of those situations in wildlife photography were you need all the horsepower your lens and camera can muster to get the shot as that nesting sit was a good distance away from us. This was a...