It’s mid-February and time for baby owls at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. We headed over there and found two Great Horned Owlets in the tree nest. I really didn’t have the lens I wanted to photograph them, so went back the next day and found only one in the nest. Mom was hanging out nearby,…
This week I bought a “new, used” camera. I found a Nikon D3S with very low shutter actuations for sale on Craigslist. I wanted the D3S for its 11 frames per second burst mode to help in capturing birds in flight. I mounted it with my 70-200mm and headed down to Percival Landing to practice…
In January Dale and I went on a photo workshop with Jack Lien to La Jolla, CA to photograph wildlife. The stars were the Brown Pelicans, but we saw quite a few other sea birds, sea lions and seals as well. Here is a sampling of some of my pelican shots. For the complete gallery,…
For a couple years now we’ve taken mini-camping trips to Westport in October. The weather at this time of year can be absolutely stunning, and we were not disappointed this year. The skies were so blue that I thought they looked almost fake in my photos. This year we camped at the Twin Harbor’s State…
Before buying our Rialta in October of 2010 we camped in either a little teardrop trailer or our 1985 Volkswagen Westfalia camper van. We knew we had out grown the teardrop and sold that right after buying the Rialta. But the Westy has remained in our garage unused and somewhat neglected. We knew we should…
In 2010 I spent another great summer in Alaska and then when I returned home Dale and I did some fall camping and even purchased a new motorhome. We’ve done a couple short trips and we have plans to do a lot more because believe it or not – I’m not returning to work in…
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