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Caracara
A Crested Caracara on a fence post is as much of a Patagonia cliche as a Red-Tailed Hawk on a fence post is here in California. With the fence line leading into foggy mountains, I was pretty happy with my version.
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Armadillo
Getting to see an armadillo was one of many highlights of my trip to Patagonia with @danieldietrichphoto. These guys are so shy and hard to photograph, but we stayed very still until it emerged from its burrow and scurried (safely) across the road. This is either a Pichi or a Big Hairy Armadillo, but I…
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Posing
I had hoped to get a photo of a Puma posing dramatically on some rocks. That never quite came together, but she is standing in a rock on this photo, and I gotta say, she really pops against the Mata Negra.
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Puma Love
While Dania stole the show and our hearts for most of the trip, this was the most special Puma encounter we had. The darker Puma is a shy female who hasn’t been named. The lighter one is a male. In general the males never get as comfortable with humans as the females can. We first…
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The Land (Almost) Before Time
Dania looks out from the estancia as the sunrise warms Torres del Paine National Park. While much of this area looks at once pristine and millions of years old, there are important exceptions. A driver on the road down below claimed the life of one of Dania’s cubs last year. Her other cub was taken…
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Dania
While Pumas aren’t always easy to find, sometimes you get really lucky. We found Dania just before dawn on our first day in the field. She was sitting on a small ridgeline just as we entered the estancia. Shortly after that, she relocated to these bushes to take a snooze. If she’d moved spots a…
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Patagonian Scene
A Puma gazes out over the Paine Massif. Taken on a Puma photography tour with @danieldietrichphoto, which was truly an unforgettable experience. For all the photos I’ve seen of Pumas and the Torres del Paine, I still wasn’t prepared for the feeling of being out in the wild Patagonian landscape watching these majestic cats go…