After some modest success with a Bufflehead a couple of days ago, I decided to make another try of it. I don’t like using blinds, but skittish ducks are one of the exceptions that I make. Today I was out in the blind before sunup waiting for the ducks. Blinds have two major problems: your …
I am sure that ducks know when it is hunting season. Ok, maybe I’m going a bit far, but they do know when people are a threat. Anytime after the duck hunting season starts to a little bit before it ends, the ducks are especially skittish. But it is still possible to get close if …
I know I say this a lot, but it still bears repeating. When you have a good thing going on, milk it for all it is worth. Don’t feel like you have all the photos you can get after 20 minutes, keep at it. This is especially important with wildlife. First of all, the great …
After a few days of trying to photograph some ducks and having nothing to show from it, I gave up. Just kidding, but it almost felt like that. When I returned to South Carolina, it had been a month or longer since I had been to most of the places that I photograph at. A …
Ducks back here in South Carolina continue to be my nemesis. I went out looking for some early this morning and found a few Buffleheads and a male Hooded Merganser who was leading around a trio of females. So I settled into the bank of the pond and waited. I got a lot of practice …
Often when getting back from a trip, you’ve got behind on so many others things that you feel like you need to take time to catch up. That’s all good, but this time I was going to make sure that I still kept shooting. I’ve been spoiled the last couple weeks with cooperative wildlife wherever …
As always, Huntington Beach has been so much fun. So much fun that the 4 nights I spent here went by before I had realized. I had one last morning to get some photography in before the last few hours of driving home. I had a plan in mind. The last couple of days I …
When people see you in the field with a 600mm they think that you can bring the freckles of person standing on the moon into view. I wish it was the case. A long lens is a great help, but you still have to get fairly close to wildlife for most photographs. This morning I …
I hope everyone had a great New Year! I went to bed early last night so I could get up early to start this year doing my favorite thing on the planet – photographing wildlife. I had spent the last day and a half photographing at the beach and jetty, so today I tried for …