Simple Clicks – Goose Head
It seems like Canadian Geese (along with their droppings) are everywhere I look in Northeastern PA this year — all of the usual water spots I frequent, such as Lackawanna State Park, Ford’s Pond and Merli-Sarnoski Park. I’d pretty much taken to ignoring them in search of more elusive targets like eagles and herons, but [...]
Aisle Seat
It can be difficult to photograph birds, being that they are so wary — for the most part. I had previously had no luck trying to get close enough on foot to a killdeer to get a decent shot with my 75-300mm, but while wrapping up a recent session at the Abington Park with Brent, [...]
Simple Clicks – Assorted Nature
As I wrap up the outdoor and wildlife segments of my E-M5 review, I have a few photos left that didn’t make it onto the blog yet, but are still worth sharing. For starters, here’s a Killdeer, one of a series shot out the car window. Killdeer are skittish and I could never get this [...]
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Review: Wildlife
While portrait and commercial shooting is my professional niche, wildlife photography is my personal addiction. The challenge of finding critters, of learning their habits and behaviors, and then pulling it all together to make portraits of them in their wild environments is a rush. On a good day, at least. (On a bad day, when [...]
Simple Clicks – AM-PM Birds
This past weekend, I stopped by at Tobyhanna State Park in Northeast PA. The last time I was there, I captured a shot of a Great Blue Heron looking for lunch and I thought I might see if he (or she) were still around. No heron to be seen, and the day at that point [...]
Simple Clicks – Wildlife Teaser
I’ve got a full post coming on shooting wildlife with the E-M5, but just to keep you all on the edge of your seats, here’s a quick teaser, just to show what kind of results I’m getting so far! Shooting the E-M5 and Lumix 100-300mm is very different from shooting with the 7D and 300L [...]
Archbald Regional Park
It’s funny how you can live in an area for years, know the side roads and shortcuts, and yet still continue to find new places that you never knew existed. Last week I found an entire park that I didn’t know about, just 15 minutes up the valley. Acres of fields and woods, several ponds, [...]
Wildwood – Some casual birding
Since I can’t go anywhere without chasing critters these days, there was birding time built into our weekend getaway to Wildwood. In all my past visits to the beach (in my pre-birding days), I clearly remember seeing flocks of gulls and plovers, and usually the patrolling lines of pelicans. Well, there were no pelicans this [...]
Simple Clicks – Horseshoe Crabs
These guys are amazing critters. Virtually unchanged for thousands of years, they are true living fossils. And each spring they come ashore in droves, all across the eastern coast, to mate and lay their eggs. We found about a half-dozen of them on-shore the first afternoon in Wildwood, although I didn’t see any live ones [...]
SPOIL – a documentary
SPOIL from EP Films on Vimeo. “A powerful award winning documentary on the Great Bear Rainforest.” The film shows the splendor of nature and first nation culture with through world renown photographers and beautiful photography. It highlights the what we all want to protect but our addiction to burn more oil is helping to destroy. [...]
