The last two times I had been out, it seemed like I was getting better and better at finding and photographing the spring warblers. Well that didn’t continue today as I tried for some of the early warblers that come to southern Michigan. Too much of a good thing breeds complacency – at least that’s …
I had another warbler day down here in southern Ohio. I felt like either I’m starting to become more attuned to the warblers or else I’m got pretty lucky. One of the keys with warblers is to use your ears. With large birds, you often find them just by looking in the right places. This …
Life got a little bit busy here so I wasn’t able to do any photographing last week, but this week I was really looking forward to another try at warblers. Even two weeks later, it is still early for warblers in Michigan, so I headed down to southern Ohio – this time near the Ohio …
I had one morning left to find some early warblers in southern Ohio. I went back to where I heard them calling and actually did have some success with a Pine Warbler. It was enough to convince me that the new techniques I was trying out had some potential to capture these difficult species. I …
Catalina State Park truly is a joy to stay in. Not many cities have such a great area just outside their city limits – Tucson is lucky! Outside of the campground I called home for a couple of nights, there are numerous trails leading up into the mountains and wildlife abounds, even early in the …
Almost anywhere I go, I look to the water. Plant and animal life is always most abundant there whether it is a salt marsh, a lake, or a river. That is true in the desert too, but here water is so very scarce. One of the best places for photography in the Arizona desert is …
Today started pretty badly. The plan was to use the day photographing some of the birds found in southern Arizona. I headed onto the trails and saw a pair of gorgeous Vermillion Flycatchers. After about an hour all I had was a few so-so photos of the female. Then I moved on to a nice big open field with …
Arizona is a big, big state. There were several places I was planning to visit in southern Arizona and although they were ‘close’ to each other, that means a few hundred miles of driving. So after waking up, I stopped by the Tucson Mountains on the way out of the Saguaro NP vicinity. The light …
It’s easy to have preconceptions about what you want to photograph. Planning is great and leads to the best photos. But you can’t force an idea if it won’t work. I wanted to focus exclusively on landscape photos in Arizona and wildlife was supposed to be an afterthought. But the wildflowers weren’t blooming and there …