One of the more common birds of prey that I see in Florida are the Osprey or fish hawk. On a recent visit to Honeymoon Island State Park, the osprey were about all I got to photograph because the mosquitoes were so bad we basically had to jog the whole […]
Tag: Osprey
Osprey in Everglades National Park
Over Spring Break when we visited Everglades National Park, I got the chance to spend a little time with this Osprey family down at the marino at Flamingo. There was a mother (I assume) and a chick on the nest. Dad was perched nearby on top of a pole keepin […]
Gopher Tortoise and Alligator at Dawn
I feel like I have kind of neglected photos of Florida wildlife, especially reptiles, which are one of the things that brought me to photography in the first place. I have also had an interest in snakes and gators and loved going to parks and looking for them. Lately my […]
More Birds
Two more bird shots tonight. The first one is a cool silhouette of a Brown Pelican at sunrise. This is not the picture that I have had in my mind and have been looking for of a bird silhouetted against the rising or setting sun, but it is pretty close. […]
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 […]