I ended up with the day off today and the weather was so nice I definitely did not want to sit inside all day so I made a quick trip over to Ballast Point Park. It was windy and there were some whitecaps on the water, but the temperature felt […]
Tag: Great Blue heron
More Fort Desoto Birds
I am still working through a lot of my photos from my recent outings, but here are a few bird pictures from Fort Desoto on Saturday in the meantime. There is a Great Horned Owl nest at Fort Desoto that has been well documented by a lot of photographers for […]
Sunrise Silhouettes
One of my favorite type of images, silhouettes. The Brown Pelican photo is one that I have really been looking for as it is so representative of Florida. The Great Blue Heron photo is one that I have captured at Viera Wetlands a few times. [facebook]
Bird Portraits
Fort Desoto, especially at the fishing pier is a great place to get really close to the birds and capture a much more close up view than normal. This Great Egret and Great Blue Heron were both captured at the pier although on different days. [facebook]
Sunshine Skyway Sunrise
I went out to the Sunshine Skyway Bridge for sunrise this morning. Unfortunately the sunrise is not in the best position this time of year, but I was able to get one shot that I had been after for awhile. Right around sunrise and sunset I love to look for […]
Viera Wetlands Birds
Florida’s wading birds are usually pretty approachable and fairly easy to photograph. That’s why I like to look for different ways to capture them. Two of my favorite ways are capturing their reflection in the water or as silhouettes. The key to the first method is getting the right angle. […]
Birds of Viera
A few more of my favorite from Viera Wetlands. TOnight I have a shot of a Sandhill Crane that was in the middle of what I can only assume must have been some kind of courtship dance. There was a lot of hopping around and different poses. The other shot […]
Sushi, It’s whats for dinner.
One of the nice things about living in Florida for a photographer is the abundance of birds. If you spend the time watching them it is amazing the number of different ways that they catch their prey. Great Blue Herons are patient hunters. They usually enter a body of water […]
Birds in flight
On my last visit to the Circle B Bar Reserve I got the chance to practice some flight photography. I stationed myself on the dock on Lake Hancock around sunrise. I started by trying to capture silhouettes of the birds as they flew past the rising sun and its reflection […]
Florida Birds
These two photos are from my last trip to Viera Wetlands. The first shot is of a nesting Great Blue Heron with two young chicks. There is obviously a bit of sibling rivalry going on. The second shot is of three Glossy Ibis. They are a less common bird, but […]