The month of September is generally a good time to visit Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge, where I captured this shot of a yellowlegs last year.  This is when many shorebirds migrate through the area in search of a warmer place to spend winter.  I’m not sure if this is a Greater or Lesser Yellowlegs, [...]

Before I delved deeply into nature photography, I was pretty much an everything photographer, shooting a variety of subjects.  Nature and sports intrigued me the most however, so I tried quite a bit of shooting in local parks and looking back, I do have a few shots from that time that I still like and have [...]

When Chris and I took a trip to the Hawaiian Island of Oahu in January 2007, we hoped to photograph several of Hawaii’s endemic species, many of which are now endangered due to habitat destruction and the presence of invasive exotic species, which compete with Hawaii’s native fauna.  As might be expected, many of the [...]

Earlier this week, I was able to take a few days off and drive down to Virginia to see Chris for the first time in two months.  In addition to just enjoying spending time together, we did a bit of shooting.  One morning, we went to Great Falls National Park, one of Chris’s favorite landscape locations, [...]

In preparation for my annual fall outing to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, I’ll be posting several Chincoteague photos in the upcoming months.  This one, of a Brown-headed Nuthatch, is from my November 2006 trip.  Chris recently had a Brown-headed Nuthatch image from this same spot in Chincoteague published in the current issue of Birder’s World, so [...]

Purple Martins live in colonies, with multiple pairs of birds nesting in the same spot.  Bird houses designed for these birds are apartment style, with compartments layered next to and on top of one another to provide ample nesting space for all of the birds in a colony.  For photographers, an active martin nest box [...]

Two years ago, I visited Chris’s grandparents in upstate New York for the first time and also first met Eric Dresser, a talented nature photographer and good friend of Chris’s.  Eric let us photograph some birds that had been frequenting his backyard, including American Goldfinch, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, a Red-breasted Nuthatch, and this particular male Black-throated [...]

A couple of years ago, I was at one of my favorite places, Richard W. DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst, part of the New Jersey Meadowlands, listening for Marsh Wren in the reeds when I heard a little squeak from below.  I looked down and found this fella, a baby raccoon.  It was about 7:30AM in [...]