Just one of many special images from an incredible day with a Puma in Patagonia earlier this year. We came upon this Puma shortly after sunrise, and she soon put on a show for us. She gave us everything that morning: closeups, landscapes, every possible background, a hunt, and even a brief moment crossing in front of a rainbow.
A Black Turnstone looking mighty fine on a rock piled up with seaweed.
Sometimes you just know you created an absolute banger. This wasn’t one of those times, because this Ermine (Short-Tailed Weasel) was moving so fast that I wasn’t sure I’d managed to get the shot. Fortunately, it had paused for just long enough for me to compose, before scampering back into the rocks. It had been a slow day for pikas, but it turned into one of my all-time favorite weasel shots.
This summer, I took a five-day backpacking trip through Sequoia National Park. Wildlife wasn’t really the point of the trip, but I couldn’t resist taking out my iPhone when it posed just so at an alpine lake, two days from the closest trail in the Sequoia backcountry.
From a year ago, an afternoon spent watching a Bobcat hunt for gophers.
This Steller’s Jay was kind enough to pose in front of some bokeh balls for me. It wasn’t kind enough to avoid the dried grass in the foreground, but that’s how you can be sure this isn’t AI.
A Red-Tailed Hawk scans for prey. This area was filled with ground squirrel burrows, but they must have been wise to the hawk because it hunted for an hour without success.
