When photographing the local wild horses I always try a few unexpected, heavily cropped compositions of these interesting animals. Occasionally I’ll get a result that I like, though honestly, not always. I suspect we’ve all […]
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New Wild Foal on the Reserve
Sunday evening I made a visit to the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve. I’d heard there was a new foal and this was my second visit to try to find and photograph it. While I failed […]
Juvenile White Ibis Along the Crystal Coast
The White Ibis exists in large numbers along the eastern Carolina coast. I see many, many of them and, to be honest, find photographing them to be a bit boring. While the down curved bill […]
Humming Bird!
I have a strong fondness of Humming Birds. Every year I get three or four visiting my feeder and every year I promise myself to set-up to do some photos of them. Sadly I seem […]
Wild Horses on the Tidal Flats
I launched my kayak one morning last week and it was a perfect morning for photographing the wild horses of the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve from a kayak. These majestic animals were out feeding on […]
White Ibis and Little Blue Heron Along the Beaufort NC Waterfront
I had the opportunity to launch my kayak and do a little wildlife photography the other morning. It was an extremely winding morning, making it a little difficult to hold position while shooting. The fast […]
Shackleford Banks Wild Mustang
The other evening I came across a memory card that I’d neglected to download. It was the last card I had loaded into my camera during June’s Wild Horses of the Crystal Coast workshop. While […]
Book Review: “Essential Composition: A Guide for the Perplexed” by Richard Bernabe
I’ll confess I’m a fan of Richard Bernabe’s work. He’s a very talented landscape photographer, a member of the Carolinas Nature Photography Association and, like me, makes his home in the Carolinas. A “home boy” […]
Nature Doesn’t Always Cooperate
I left the house this evening with plans to do some light painting with one of my favorite cypress trees as my subject. I hiked in to the location, settled on an angle and composition […]
Afternoon Session: Wild Horses of the Crystal Coast Workshop
For the afternoon session of last weekend’s photography workshop we visited Shackleford Banks, a part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore. The horses on “Shack” have been traced via DNA testing to the original Iberian […]