Grey Catbird singing to me on the deck. Backyard Summer Nature in New Jersey. Image taken with a Nikon D4 camera and 80-400 mm VRII lens (ISO 1600, 400 mm, f/5.6, 1/40 sec). Hand-held, the vibration reduction on this new lens is good for an exposure this long.
Gone to See the Caribbean Islands. Semester at Sea Spring 2010 Enrichment Voyage on the MV Explorer. Ultimate Travel Photography Workshop with Michael Mariant. Day 8: Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Blue Crowned Motmot at a Feeder. Asa Wright Nature Center, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Image taken with a Nikon D3s camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (ISO 1600, 300 mm, f/5.6, 1/200 sec). Semester at Sea Spring 2010 Enrichment Voyage.
As I was walking to my car from the Boulder Marriott Residence Inn I saw this brown bird hunting insects. I didn’t recognize it, and had to look it up in my “National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds”. It is a Northern Flicker which is a woodpecker. Image taken with a Nikon D2xs camera and 70-200 mm f/2.8 VR lens (ISO 400, 280 mm, f/4, 1/50 sec).
Semester at Sea, Spring 2010 Enrichment Voyage. The Ultimate Travel Photography Workshop with Michael Mariant. Day 0: Nassau, Bahamas.
Male Peacock posing for the camera. Ardastra Gardens, Zoo and Conservation Centre. Image taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (ISO 200, 145 mm, f/5.6, 1/100 sec).