A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) shows its flukes prior to diving in the Inian Islands of Alaska on September 13th, 2023. Compared to some other...
A sea otter (Enhydra lutris) floats on her back in a cove of one of Alaska’s Inian Islands, September 13th, 2023. The naturalist on board our ship...
Yesterday’s cool wildlife sighting was a huge pod of 50 to 100 (my estimate) Pacific White-Sided Dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) which followed...
The last bald eagle image I posted was of a bird in captivity but now that we’re out on the water, here’s one seen in the wild a couple of days...
Our first stop yesterday morning was the Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka. The center rescues and rehabilitates injured birds from the local area and farther...
This image was grabbed during a salmon fishing trip back in 2015 from Sooke on Vancouver Island. Our captain was annoyed by the fact that the orcas were...
A final image of the Texas Dog-day Cicada I spent some time photographing last weekend. As with all the previous images, this was generated by focus-stacking...
A detail of the thorax and wing of a Texas Dog-day Cicada (Tibicen texanus) found near Austin, Texas.
Another image of the dead Texas Dog-day Cicada (Tibicen texanus) I found over the weekend. This is a 28 exposure stack taken under natural light.
I found a large but very dead cicada in our carport yesterday so decided to use it to experiment with some extreme macro photography and focus stacking....
A carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci) foraging inside a wild garlic flower. This is really more a shot of the flower than the beetle and I love the subtle...
I broke out the macro equipment on Sunday afternoon to play with some of the automated focus bracketing and stacking modes in the OM-1. While taking pictures...
Staying with bird pictures today, here’s another image from a very productive morning at Fort Morgan, Alabama last November. This handsome brown...
Here’s another of the many Great Blue Herons that I found while walking the beach at Fort Morgan, Alabama last November. This one seems to be a juvenile...
An adult great blue heron seen on the beach at Fort Morgan, Alabama on November 21st, 2022.
Deer are a common sight in these parts and, as more of the area is developed, we see more and more on our (still pretty wild) lot. Earlier this week, this...
Happy Thanksgiving! I don’t have any turkey-related pictures to post today but I’ll finish this short series of bird images with another pelican....
I’m staying with the bird pictures today. Here’s another of the Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) from Fort Morgan beach in Alabama. This...
One of the things I enjoy about travel is that the wildlife that is commonplace at your destination is often novel and exciting to visitors. Here’s...
I headed off this morning to take pictures in Fort Morgan and, after doing that, took a walk over to the beach where I noticed a large group of pelicans...
