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Posted in general, wildlife photography on Aug 14th, 2010
Today we had a CNPA outing to the northern end of Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We were hoping to see the nesting skimmers and least terns, but they were nowhere to be found. They had been there as recently as last week, but there was none on [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Jan 13th, 2010
Here are a couple more images from my recent trip to Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. It was a cloudy morning when I took the below images. Therefore, I increased my ISO so that I would have enough shutter speed to stop the action of the birds actively feeding in the water. In this [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Jan 8th, 2010
Over the New Year’s holiday I had spent some time down in Florida photographing birds at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Viera Wetlands. It was a fairly successful trip. Unfortunately, I did not get to spend as much time at Merritt Island since the drive was closed one afternoon due to an accident on [...]
Posted in general, wildlife photography on Sep 21st, 2009
This past Saturday our Outer Banks Region of the CNPA went on an outing to Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. We all had a great time and were blessed with perfect weather conditions for photographing the waterfowl. The overcast skies allowed us to photograph the birds until noon.
Sylvan Heights is home [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Sep 5th, 2009
On the way home from the day trip to Smith Island, we stopped by Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore of Viginia for some evening photography. A lot of birds were hanging out in the waters at the refuge. Some of the birds there in great quantities included black skimmers, willets, royal terns [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Aug 13th, 2009
This past weekend we had a CNPA Outer Banks Region monthly outing to the sand flats near the Bonner Bridge on Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. We arrived early in the morning so that we could capture the sunrise. Once the sun came up, we are able to see that the black skimmers and least [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Aug 7th, 2009
Somehow this summer I have gotten behind with converting and processing new images. I like to be organized and promptly work on all of my new images. Maybe it was the hundreds of images that I had from my Arizona trip in May that put me behind. Hopefully, I will get caught back up here [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Jun 23rd, 2009
On a recent trip to Arizona we spent one day photographing at the Grand Canyon National Park. In earlier posts I have shared some images from our morning at the park. After spending mid-day back at the hotel, we gathered our photography gear and headed back to the Grand Canyon for some evening and sunset photo [...]
Posted in general, wildlife photography on Apr 20th, 2009
I was looking through my recent pelican images from my outing to Wanchese Harbor last month in which I captured some wonderful pictures of pelicans in flight. I haven’t been out photographing too much lately as I have been doing a lot of computer work. Thought I would share another pelican image from last month. The [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Mar 23rd, 2009
Wanchese is located at the southern-end of Roanoke Island in North Carolina. It is a working harbor with commercial fishing boats and boat building companies. Last Saturday morning, the CNPA OBX Region had our monthly outing at Wanchese. We were there before sunrise in hopes of taking some sunrise pictures. Unfortunately, there were lots of clouds in the [...]