This morning I went to visit one of my favorite nature photography interest sites, NatureScapes.Net (NSN), and discovered that my photograph “Glowing Fern” was named Image of the Week in their Digital Creations image gallery forum.  I don’t usually do a whole lot of digital manipulation to my photographs (and whenever I do I always [...]

Here’s another photograph from my Chincoteague trip a couple of weeks ago.  This will probably be my last blog post on the trip, because I’m hoping to get out and shoot around Virginia in the next couple of days.
My absolute favorite subjects to photograph at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge are the wild ponies.  Ever since [...]

I’m now in Virginia and in a couple hours I’ll be feasting on a delicious Thanksgiving dinner with Chris, his mom, stepdad, and two kitties, Harry and Gremmy.  I’ve spent the morning baking apple pie, running around the neighborhood (literally), playing fetch with Gremmy (he’s one cool cat), and otherwise enjoying a low key, chill morning.  What a [...]

This past week has been somewhat of a transitional period for me, so I apologize for the long delay between posts.  Friday was my last day of work at Project USE for the fall season, and I have spent the past couple days packing up my belongings and spending some quality time with my co-workers before [...]

When all else fails on a trip to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, I usually head to the beach.  There, you can nearly always find gulls resting on the beach sand, flying overhead, or perched on one of the fences in the parking area.  So, when the weather on our recent trip to Chincoteague turned sour [...]

I spent this past weekend at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, a preserve on Assateague Island off the coast of Virginia, just south of the Maryland-Virginia state border.  Chincoteague is one of my favorite places to photograph wildlife because of its wide variety of approachable subjects, so I try to make at least one trip there each [...]

If you are a regular visitor to my blog and happen to be a person who pays close attention to detail, you may notice that my blog has a new look.  Over the past couple of days, I updated my Wordpress blogging software and made some small adjustments to the theme of my blog to [...]

I have today off from work so this morning I visited my favorite local duck pond again with the goal of photographing Mallards, Canada Geese, and Ring-billed Gulls, regulars that can be expected there every day this time of year.  When I arrived, all of the Mallards were resting near shore and there were only three [...]

Here’s another shot I like from my trip to the duck pond.  This one is a portrait of a much darker female Mallard, against the pretty green water.  I should be able to make a trip back to the pond in the next coming days, when I visit a nearby town for a work assignment.  [...]

I made a trip to my favorite local park yesterday hoping to get some better shots of Mallard ducks.  I went to a location where the ducks were close to the water’s edge, and set up so that the reflections of the nearby green, yellow, and orange trees provided some sweet water as a background.  [...]

Happy Halloween (one day late)!  Since I haven’t done any shooting in the past couple weeks, I thought this would be an appropriate older image to post to my blog.  This shot was taken last year when I discovered that a spider had taken up residence outside my back door.  The spider emerged each evening, [...]