Barn Owls In Flight – A Huge Motivator For Learning Good Technique If anything will give a bird photographer motivation to learn the techniques of photographing birds in flight it’s Barn Owls flying during daytime. Continue reading
Short-eared Owl – An Image Can Be Cropped Deceptively Creative cropping of an image can sometimes have more negative effects than positive ones. Continue reading
Mountain Bluebird – An Imperfect Image But I’ll Keep it For Inspiration To get extraordinary images it helps immensely to be inspired by knowing what is possible if you just keep trying. Continue reading
Fledgling Short-eared Owl Wing Stretch I continue to make the occasional rookie mistake when photographing birds in the field but this time I still like the results. Continue reading
Northern Flickers With A Little Competition For The Nest Cavity Relative size apparently makes no difference when birds are competing for nesting cavities. In this case the Northern Flickers are twelve times larger than the house wren (130 g vs 11 g). Continue reading
Curlew To Chukar – “Shut Up, I’m Trying To Sleep” When you’re trying to sleep it’s no fun when someone loudly invades your space. Continue reading
Chukar – Let There Be Light! A simple demonstration of how the quality of light can affect our images. Continue reading
Swainson’s Hawk Takeoff (+ reasons for not shooting at midday) I’m posting this image for its shortcomings, not for its strengths. Continue reading
Belted Kingfisher And A Question Of Preference As much as I try to avoid cloning elements out of my images it does tempt me occasionally. And in some cases doing so may not even be desirable. Continue reading
Bathing Meadowlark – It Pays To Learn To Anticipate Behavior Predicting the behavior of this Western Meadowlark allowed me to get a boat-load of very interesting action shots. Continue reading
Turkey Vulture In Warm Light – A Question Of Composition It’s unusual for me to struggle with the composition of my images but these Turkey Vulture photos are an exception. Continue reading
The Swainson’s Hawk And The Vole Sometimes even small prey doesn’t give up without a fight. Continue reading
Curlews – I’m Changing My Ways When Photographing Them At Takeoff I’m tired of blurry images of curlews taking off so I’m trying a new tack. Continue reading
My First Black-necked Stilt Of The Year (and the perils of shooting vertically) I’ve seen a few Black-necked Stilts around this spring but this is the first one I’ve photographed. Continue reading
A Short-eared Owl Hunting Technique Short-eared Owls hunt primarily on the wing, typically as they fly low over the ground in a manner reminiscent of Northern Harriers. Continue reading