From my winters living in Montana I remember what it’s like to drive through snow like this. Flying through it in flocks of other birds must be even more harrowing, in part because of its three dimensional challenges in significantly reduced visibility.
Good light and a cooperative bird is a combination I haven’t had in a very long time but it happened yesterday at Bear River MBR.
I know next to nothing about Oriental art but does this photo from yesterday morning have any resemblance to traditional Japanese prints?
Catch lights in the eyes of our subjects are important far beyond their diminutive size but they’re both fickle and elusive.
A handsome raptor in an attractive natural setting performing an interesting behavior.
A common species in both name and occurrence but around here at least ravens are uncommonly difficult to photograph well.
The huge, goofy-looking feet of coots aren’t made to run on anything, least of all incredibly slick ice.
In this case it’s hanging upside down from Douglas Fir cones like wannabe Red-breasted Nuthatches.
Bird photographers never know what we’ll see in our photos that we didn’t notice in the field. My shots of this Prairie Falcon taken two days ago surprised me in more ways than one.
Yesterday morning we finally had some light around here and I even found some beautiful birds to take advantage of it. This Golden Eagle is one of them.
This shot from yesterday morning came very close to being one of my favorite kestrel photos of all time.
I’ve photographed hundreds of Barn Owls over the years but this was something I’d never seen before and haven’t seen since.
In bird photography we often learn by trial and error and experimentation. This is one of my early photography “field investigations” using a pair of Greater Sage Grouse on Utah’s Aquarius Plateau.
