Last week I got a chance to return to some of my old haunts in South Florida. These included Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Panther National Wildlife Refuge, Big Cypress Preserve, and Fakahatchee Strand. The wildlife was not cooperative at all. However I was able to capture a few nice landscape shots. […]
Last week I took a trip to Edward Medard Park and Reservoir in Plant City to look for some Snail Kites that are now nesting in the area. I did see the Snail Kites although I did not get great shots. Guess I will have to go back and try […]
Here are a couple of unusual poses by some Barred Owls. The first shot he is fluffed up, posing and getting ready to take off. In the second he is flat on the ground with the wings spread and head tilted back. I am not sure of the purpose of […]
One of the most famous sayings in photography is F8 and be there. F8 is a camera setting that I won’t go into right now because the point of this statement is to get the shot you have to be in the right place at the right time. This is […]
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 […]
Florida is home to quite a few species of spiders. The most frequently seen spiders are probably in the orb-weaver family. Golden Silk Orb-Weavers (aka Banana spider) are very common in Florida forests. They have a yellowish body, black and yellow legs, and their web also has a golden tint […]
Since I have had a lot of interest in my last few photos from Dry Tortugas National Park, here are a couple more. There are not too many better places to relax than this hammock at Fort Jefferson. You can get a cool ocean breeze and have spectacular views of […]
While going through my photo archives recently I came across this photo of the light plumaged Red Shouldered Hawk. I probably did not realize at the time that it was unusual, but it definitely caught my eye when I saw it this time. It is not the best shot, but […]
This year I visited the Black Skimmers on Indian Shores a little too early. There were only a couple of parents with chicks and the ones that were there were all pretty small and not doing a lot. Only 1 week or two later Tropical Storm Debby came and destroyed […]
A few months ago when the water level was low there were a ton of wading birds at the Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland. In the mornings it was easy to capture reflections. The hard part was to isolate the birds or groups of bird as there were so […]