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 […]
Category Archives: Wildlife Photography
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 […]
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 […]
Shorebird Doing a Song Bird Imitation.
While moving from the dunes to the wetlands area on Shackleford Banks during Saturday’s afternoon session of the Wild Horses of the Crystal Coast workshop we came across a Willet doing a nice imitation of […]
Reflection
Time the tides right and catch the wild horses out on the tidal flats at the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve and you have the perfect opportunity to include some reflections in your composition. This location […]
Wild Horses in Late Morning Light
Like most photographers I prefer to make wildlife images in the good light of the early morning or an hour or two before sunset. However, things don’t always work out that way. I’d used my […]