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Peekaboo
A Great-Horned Owl chick peeks out from behind a eucalyptus tree. While these trees are highly invasive, the owls don’t mind one bit, and often prefer them as nesting habitat in California.
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Cactus Wren Portrait
A Cactus Wren poses on its favorite cactus. Commonly known as Teddy Bear Cholla, this cactus is ready to give fleshier visitors a big prickly hug as they brush by, but the wrens love to perch and feed on them.
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Survivor
This Black Bear looks like he has a bit of a blep, but his lip is is scarred, shredded from where another bear’s claw caught it in a fight. He’s still living his best bear life from what I could tell.
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Sierra Bear
I was hiking through a meadow in the Sierra when I spotted this Black Bear. We were both pretty surprised to see each other. Black Bears are pretty shy, so he turned around and ran away, but not before flashing his stylish ascot.
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Rock Wren on Tufa
A small but fierce Rock Wren defends its tufa territory.
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Osprey Vista
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a ridiculous panoramic shot. This Osprey pair nesting on a tufa formation really called out for the widescreen treatment.
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Cactus Wrens
A couple of Cactus Wrens doing their thing on a cholla cactus in the Mojave Desert.
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Golden Gate Owl
As fog wafts gently into the Golden Gate, an Great Horned Owl begins her evening hunt. I’m not sure I’ve ever felt the exposure triangle more acutely than on this shot. Stopping down to try to pull in more background. Fighting motion blur on a breezy evening. Lots of detail buried deep in the blacks.…
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Mountain Killdeer
A Killdeer hangs out on a tufa formation as the Sierras loom in the distance. I felt very lucky to get this shot. It took 5 minutes of bellycrawling to get in close enough, but this Killdeer was remarkably tolerant as I crawled around lining up this shot.
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Eastern California Road Trip
Lately, I’ve been getting interested in using a van as a base camp for wildlife photography. I’ve done some backpacking photography, and while it’s a lot of fun, the limitations of dragging all of your gear with you requires some real compromises. Not to mention, some of my favorite places to do photography are very…