An apparently-contented juvenile Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) lying on the beach at Peggotty Camp, King Haakon Bay, South Georgia on December...
A group of Chinstrap Penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) on an ice floe floating offshore from Elephant Island, Antarctica on December 29th, 2024.
I’m working on my upcoming presentation for Hill Country Photography Club so am in the mood to post a few more of the shots I took during last December’s...
A Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) on a blue cornflower at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin, Texas on June 20th, 2025.
This tiny moth, perhaps half an inch long, sat on a flower long enough for me to get a few pictures of it during my visit to Nutty Brown Farm last week....
A Lesser Red Carpenter Ant (Camponotus decipiens) on the stem of a sunflower plant at Nutty Brown Farm, Texas on June 20th, 2025.
I got up early this morning and headed over to the flower field at Nutty Brown Farm for an hour or so to try out a new macro flash diffuser I picked up recently....
Woohoo! It’s World Penguin Day and this Adélie certainly seems excited about it. Adélie’s (Pygoscelis adeliae) only live on and in the immediate...
Here’s another of the puffin portraits from my trip to Scotland back in July 2014. We spotted them on the island of Lunga in the Treshnish Isles,...
I found a bunch of overlooked frames while going through the images from our 2014 puffin-watching trip so here’s another. This is an Atlantic puffin...
Apparently today is National Puffin Day so here’s a picture of an Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) I took in Scotland back in July 2014 during...
This lone Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) jumped onto a beached iceberg and watched us intently as we motored past in a zodiac at Petermann Island, Antarctica...
We spotted this group of Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) on New Island in the Falklands on December 19th, 2024 as they were making their way down a penguin...
Staying with penguins, here’s another image from my favourite location of our December expedition. This was taken at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia,...
I got back onto penguin images again yesterday so here’s another. We spent an hour or so on December 19th last year fascinated by groups of Gentoo...
All this talk of tariffs levied on uninhabited Antarctic islands is obviously causing stress to this poor King Penguin spotted at Fortuna Bay, South Georgia...
A Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus) seen at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia on December 24th, 2024. These birds live on the periphery of many penguin...
An Antarctic Tern (Sterna vittata georgiae) adult and chick seen at Godthul on South Georgia, December 24th, 2024.
A Ruddy-Headed Goose (Chloephaga rubidiceps) seen New Island, one of the Falkland Islands, on December 19th, 2024.
This rather gruesome looking Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) was taking a bath at Cooper Bay, South Georgia where it and a number of other...
