Rainforest Monochromes
Rainforest photography is usually about color, but I’ve been compiling a portfolio of black and white rainforest images.
New Hummingbird Images
Check out some new hummingbird images plus tech info and notes on how I took them.
New Images from April 2011
Check out this post for some new images — as always, I’ve included field and tech notes for you.
New Images, Field and Tech Notes
In this post, I share the stories behind a few of my favorite images from the first two months of 2011.
My Favorite Images of 2010
It’s the time of year for best of lists, so I’ll participate too. (I won’t show you my worst of though!) It’s a fun, interesting, and challenging exercise for any photographer to pick their favorite images. My criteria for selection included close adherence to the RAW file (that is, that I did as well as [...]
Photographing Olive Ridley Sea Turtles (or not)
My adventure photographing (or not photographing!) sea turtles in Costa Rica.
Fine Art Hummingbirds
I had a chance to take a few (literally just a few!) hummingbird pictures yesterday and was able to get some that I really liked. When I was in grad school, I worked at the Missouri Botanical Garden and always enjoyed the botanical illustrations in many of the books in the fantastic library there. There [...]
On Location Images — Something Different
Though I’m a nature photographer at heart, I occasionally do an on-location shoot here in Costa Rica for tourist attractions and ecolodges. This is not my bread and butter but it helps pay the bills and offers a fresh challenge from a photographic standpoint — dealing with tricky lighting, varied subjects, time limits, and compositional [...]
Multiple-flash Experiments for Hummingbirds
Everyone who visits this blog knows that I love photographing hummingbirds. In fact, one could say it’s become a bit of an obsession! Why? Well, hummingbirds are just amazing in terms of their plumage, colors, and flight capabilities. Every time I photograph hummingbirds I get a surprise visitor or pose. In addition, since photographing hummingbirds [...]
Finally, the quetzal image I’ve wanted!
Well, it’s not perfect, but this image is quite close to what I’ve imagined capturing for the past five years or so. To my mind, four things contribute to a good portrait of the resplendent quetzal. First, you want to include the whole bird, including that magnificent tail. And for this, you need to have [...]
Green-crowned brilliant at Bomarea flower
Hi, just a quick post here to show off a hummingbird picture I really liked. I went to a little restaurant the other day with my good friends Jose Lopez and Monica Quesada (see mqcphoto.com) of Foto Verde Tours for a bit of hummingbird photography. Along the way we found this beautiful Bomarea epiphyte flower [...]
Poison Frogs at Selva Verde Lodge
The other day I went to Selva Verde Lodge for a photoshoot. Andrea Holbrook, president of Holbrook Travel, which runs the lodge, had hired me to do some updated shots of the renovated rooms, new staff, and the buildings and grounds. I started out with sun and a nice breeze at home but as I [...]
Images from the Central Pacific
I just returned recently from a photo tour with my friends and now three-time repeat clients Dick and Bert Wolf of Louisville, Kentucky. It’s always a pleasure to travel with Dick and Bert and, even though they shoot Nikon , we enjoy shooting together too. While Dick and Bert have traveled the world taking photographs, [...]
Photoshoot — Casa de Tranquilidad
Even though I’m a nature photographer, I do the occasional photoshoot to help pay the bills and keep buying all of that fancy camera equipment that we all need Of course, it’s the most fun when the client wants something more than just the standard shots so I was happy when Dave Lando called about [...]
