For a portion of my life New Jersey was home. I spent four great years while in college at Princeton, but after graduation, I never returned to the state. Living in Michigan, New Jersey just wasn’t on the route to anywhere. Now years later I find myself in New Jersey again. The time is short …
Wildlife photography is always unpredictable. It is often full of days when nothing seems to go right, but there are the rare days when nothing can go wrong. Today was one of those special days. It felt like all I had to do was look through the viewfinder and quality images started to fly. The …
When I was preparing for my trip to the Outer Banks, one of the reference books I was reading made mention of the weather at Cape Hatteras. Here the weather can change at a moment’s notice. Due to being so close to the Gulf Stream, the Cape can have completely different weather from the mainland …
The holidays are rapidly approaching and it’s time to head up to my family in Connecticut. This provides the perfect opportunity for a road trip up through the states on the Atlantic coast with stops at a few destinations. The first stop along the way was the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The morning began …
As the crow flies, Hunting Island State Park is only about 20 miles from where I live. But water makes things a bit more complicated. To reach it I have to drive something that looks like a circle and takes about an hour. It’s a shame because Hunting Island State Park is a real gem. …
I had a 6 hour drive back ahead of me, so it was only one last morning out to try and rustle up some subjects who were willing to be photographed. It went a bit easier than the last two days. For a split second I thought I heard my trusty, reliable Pine Warbler again. …
Spring keeps rolling along. In the Upper Peninsula it comes a bit later than it does most other places in the continental US. It really bursts forth around the beginning of June. It’s about a 6 hour drive to get up there, but I was looking forward to spending some quality time in the Hiawatha …
Today was my second day in Ohio photographing songbirds with Matthew Studebaker. If you missed it, I talked more about Matthew in yesterday’s post. Today started out wet, really wet. The rain was coming down hard for quite a while. But that doesn’t hamper the birds. The orioles were out singing en masse. We had …
This weekend I had the good fortune to spend time shooting with Matthew Studebaker – one of the best songbird photographers. You can see Matthew’s work here. Matthew is particularly great at getting beautiful songbirds, especially warblers, in beautiful settings. Today began wet, but with a vibrant sun as you can tell from this singing …
As I woke up today in my tent, it felt great to have another try at the warblers. I knew they were out there as I had heard many yesterday, I just either couldn’t find them or get them out of tangled brush. Today wound up being significantly more successful, although I didn’t wind up …