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Blue Hour Whimbrel at Ocean Beach
There’s no better time than blue hour to photograph birds at busy urban beaches. You get an amazing variety of colors in the span of 20-30 minutes, and the number of dogs finally gets to a manageable level.
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Coyote and the City at Fort Mason
I photographed this Coyote last fall. I loved this image, but wasn’t quite happy with the edit. I finally figured out that it’s possible for images to be too warm, even if the warmth comes naturally from the sunset. This looks a bit more natural than what the auto white balance produced. and there’s more…
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Double-Crested Cormorant Coming in For Landing
How I got a great shot of this challenging to photograph bird landing in a lake.
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Sanderling Sunset Silhouette
In the winter, the lowest tides of the cycle happen right around sunset in the Bay Area. Whenever there’s a minus tide with a good sunset, I try to head to the beach to photograph shorebirds. Typically that’s meant Stinson Beach, but yesterday I tried San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. I arrived about 40 minutes before…
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Belching Cormorant
Have you ever seen a cormorant’s belch before? This double-crested cormorant was sunning itself on a rock in Golden Gate Park. It was still a couple of hours before sunset and the light was fairly harsh, so I was playing with a backlit look and with the bokeh the sunlight made reflecting off ripples in…
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Hooded Merganser at Stow Lake
There’s a Wood Duck wintering at Golden Gate Park this year. I went to try to photograph it, but it wasn’t at Stow Lake that evening. There was a larger complement of hooded mergansers than last year, however, so it was a good outing.
