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Coyote Reflection
Inside of you there are two wolves. One of them knows the difference between wolves and coyotes, and the other one doesn’t care when it comes to writing vaguely amusing captions.
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Point Reyes With Daniel Dietrich
Shortly after I first started doing photography in Point Reyes, I booked a tour with Daniel Dietrich of Point Reyes Safaris. It was a great experience, and I learned a lot about how to find and photograph predators while minimizing the stress and impact human interactions can create for wild animals. I followed up that…
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Bombs Away!
My first leaping Coyote. This is a classic shot that’s been eluding me for quite a while. I’ve gotten it far in the distance, in terrible light, from the back, and with a diseased Coyote. Last week I finally got an opportunity to photograph a beautiful Coyote in great light getting some serious air. I…
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Bobcat Prize
This is the first time I managed to photograph a successful bobcat hunt. It happened so quickly. I arrived, scanned a hillside, spotted the bobcat, and started to drive closer. It disappeared into the bushes while I was driving, but I decided to walk over to where I had last seen it. Before I could…
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Rise and Shine
Time to shake off the post-Thanksgiving torpor and get out to enjoy the long weekend!
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First Weasel
I spent a great evening with @fledglingbirder waiting for a weasel he’d spotted earlier in the day to emerge from its burrow. The sun had dipped below the dunes behind us, its last rays raking across the far end of the field, when the weasel finally made a bounding appearance out of its burrow. I…
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Misty Morning Elk
As every photographer knows, the best light occurs right around sunrise and right around sunset. The two aren’t interchangeable either. The light has a very different quality when filtered through cool misty morning air than through warm and hazy evening air. I know all these things, and yet I can’t usually bring myself to get…
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Down the Hatch
A Great Blue Heron devouring a gopher whole. While Great Blue Herons are best known for eating fish, in California they can often be found stalking through fields, plucking insects, voles, and even gophers from the grass. Similar behavior has been observed in Idaho, where one study showed over 25% of their diet came from…
