This winter, while visiting my friend Eric Dresser in upstate New York, I spent part of one morning in a blind photographing a herd of wild deer that live on his property. Each morning, Eric puts down corn for the deer and they have grown quite accustomed to the presence of him and his beagle, [...]

Due to my busy schedule while student teaching this semester, I haven’t been able to go out shooting in a while. Fortunately, I have plenty of older photographs to share, such as this one of a wild pony stallion.
One of my favorite locations to photograph is Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia. I [...]

I’m currently in the process of updating and revamping my website (yet again) in order to further optimize it for search engines and improve the overall feel of the website. One thing I would like to change is my FAQs section, so that it more accurately reflects questions from other photographers, fans, nature lovers, [...]

On my second visit to the Pole Farm in Lawrence, New Jersey, I was fortunate that the Short-eared Owls made an early appearance, coming out around 2:30PM, allowing for a couple hours of shooting in good light. While I didn’t have any close encounters with the owls like I did on Sunday, I was [...]

Believe it or not, I only started focusing on nature photography about a year-and-a-half ago. Before that, I didn’t have a car to drive to parks or other natural areas and I really wasn’t aware of all the variety of natural subjects that existed in my area. I pretty much thought my best opportunities for [...]

I made my first trip to the Pole Farm in Mercer County yesterday. The Pole Farm is best known among birders as an excellent Short-eared Owl habitat, and many visit the farm at dusk during the wintertime to watch them hunt. While the owls usually come out a little before sundown, around 4PM [...]

While in upstate New York for the holidays one subject I had hoped to shoot were some of the irruption bird species that aren’t usually in New York state. On that list were Common and Hoary Redpolls, Crossbills, and this bird, the Pine Grosbeak. While I missed out on the Common Redpolls and [...]

This will be my last installment of Barnegat images, at least for now. I started my student teaching this week, and its kept me both quite busy and fairly exhausted, so I haven’t done any shooting since Barnegat on Saturday. I hope to be able to do some more photography this weekend, but [...]

The male Harlequin Duck is a very colorful and beautiful bird, with bold patterns of dark slate blue, rusty orange, black, and white. This can make exposure of these birds, especially in direct sun, very difficult. Fortunately, modern technology and software such as Adobe Camera Raw make it possible to recover some detail [...]

Here’s another photograph from my trip to Barnegat Light yesterday, of a female Harlequin Duck resting on a rock covered in mussels. Towards the end of the day, the Harlequins grew more tolerant of the many people walking the jetty and light cloud cover provided some beautiful diffused light to photograph these birds. [...]