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And now – now – we get to the birds! I bet this has been as anticipated as the finale to Game of Thrones! To say that I shot a lot of birds during our week in South Carolina is an understatement, but it was a great lead-in to World Migratory Bird Day, which […] May 28th, 2019 | Tags: Agelaius phoeniceus, Aix sponsa, American crow, Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga, Ardea alba, black-crowned night heron, Brookgreen Gardens, brown pelican, Buteo jamaicensis, Butorides virescens, Calidris alba, Charadrius semipalmatus, Corvus corax, double-crested cormorant, Egretta tricolor, great egret, green heron, Huntington Beach State Park, Limnodromus scolopaceus, long-billed dowitcher, Melanerpes carolinus, Melanitta fusca, Murrell's Inlet, Nail The Pan Day, Nycticorax nycticorax, Pawley's Island, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax auritus, red-bellied woodpecker, red-tailed hawk, red-winged blackbird, sanderling, semipalmated plover, South Carolina, tri-colored heron, Tringa semipalmata, white-winged scoter, willet, wood duck, World Migratory Bird Day | Category: Nature, Photography |
 Leave a commentBack in the early nineties, a couple of years after moving into North Carolina, I took my first trip alone out to the Outer Banks – I’d been once before with my cousin, a weekend camping trip, but this time around I was intent on doing some ‘serious’ photography, which at that time was […] Insofar as illustrating a manuscript goes, this image isn’t a very good fit, but I happened to like it and it was among the first images that I got for this session, so here it is. This is a black vulture (Coragyps atratus) looking down on us suspiciously as we slipped in underneath. The […] I know you’ve gotten the pattern down and are keeping track, so I don’t have to tell you what folder this comes from; it’s a mere accident of timing that it coincides with the end of the month, and if I felt like cheating, I’d let this serve double duty, but since I already […] Okay. So. The plan, which we’d had for close to a year, was to spend this past week down on Jekyll Island, Georgia, and we’d chosen this time to maximize the chances of seeing a sea turtle nest hatching out, because this is the season. So we watched the predictions for Hurricane Irma with […] When skimming through the slide pages looking for this week’s submission, I came across a couple of different slides of brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis,) which started me thinking. Many years ago, in need of something with which to brand my letterhead and envelopes that said “nature photographer” (other than, you know, the actual words, […] It is sometime in the 1990s. No, I mean it’s 2016 right now, but the event I am relating takes place back then, and I am using a literary style called first-person chronologica dysplasia or some shit like that. Whatever; it’s creative – run with me here. I am touring Florida on my own, […] |
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