Tag: silhouette

Duck!
Blog, Wildlife

Viera Wetlands

Viera Wetlands is always a fun place to go because you never know what you are going to find. I usually arrive on my photo sites at sunrise hoping to catch some good light. At Viera one of my favorite thing to do is look for silhouettes. This morning tehre […]

Brown Pelican Silhouette
Birds, Blog

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. […]

Tenere Desert
Birds, Travel

Niger, Africa

A few old shots tonight. These are both from 7 years ago on a trip to Niger, Africa. The first shot is of one of the most unusual and cool places I have seen. There were some huge sand dunes which are given some scale by the two people in […]

Osprey in Flight
Birds, Blog

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 […]

Cattle Egret in Flight
Birds, Blog

Viera Wetlands Birds

Viera Wetlands is one of the best places in Florida to photograph birds. On my last trip there i was able to photograph these Black Bellied Whistling Ducks as silhouettes at sunrise. I got several shots with but since several ducks were trying to stay on the same palm tree […]

Heron Silhouette
Birds, Blog

Heron Silhouette

One type of shot that I am always on the lookout for is the silhouette. I have had good luck with this type of image at Viera Wetlands due to the setup making it easy to position the bird in front of a bright sky. My favorite silhouette shot can […]