Central Valley California
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Dancing Bird
After I decided to switch from a landscape photographer to a wildlife-wanabe-photographer, I stopped to watch a bunch of White-faced Ibis’ eat and occasionally dance. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t dancing, but either a territory dispute or finding a mate. I probably spent about 10 minutes watching a photographing them. Most of them went to…
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Down, Up, Down, Up
I can never get close enough to photograph the Sandhill Cranes, especially because a 300mm lens and 1.4 tele-converter just doesn’t have the reach. Got lucky to get these two flying overhead…
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A Long Time Coming
I’m been doing a lot of shooting this past few days…finally. The family went to Monterrey Thursday/Friday. Had a high school football game last night and got up early today to check on my favorite local “scenery place”. I got there at 6:30 am and had to wait a few minutes until the gate opened.…
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Spotlight on the Geese
As my daughter and I were looking for some Burrowing Owls I came across this sunset scene. I didn’t want to get out and set up my tripod, mainly because we were there for wildlife, and not landscape photography. I took this one picture from the window of the van and moved on.