Every day from the first of the year to the last, the sun comes up and then sets (assuming you’re not above the Arctic Circle). Sometimes clouds obscure this from us, but more often than not you can see it. It truly is a wonderful event to behold. If you haven’t watched a sunrise in …
It’s a long drive from the Pennsylvania/Maryland border to South Carolina, but if you start early you can make good time. Also at 5 am there is little traffic around D.C. Instead of going all the way home, I had a stop planned for 4 nights at one of the best locations in the northern …
Today was a bit of a quandry. I definitely wanted to go back to Bombay Hook, but I only had one day left and my main objective was really to get some Bald Eagle fishing photos. So given the situation, I headed back to the eagles at the Conowingo dam. Maybe it would be better …
When your original plan falls through you need to go to your backup. First of all, that means you must have a backup. It’s something I’ve found to be very helpful in my photography. So the Bald Eagles weren’t catching enough fish, so I decided to try going to Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge. This …
So let’s say you have the opportunity to stop wherever you would like between South Carolina and Connecticut to photograph during the winter. Where would you go? I spent a lot of time planning each and every stop and with only a limited amount of time and money on my hands my choices revolved around …
Christmas is right around the corner, but I had a morning that I could get some photography in before it would be time to start the final leg of the drive to Connecticut for the holidays. After reviewing my images over the evening and seeing that I had a good number of sharp images with …
For a portion of my life New Jersey was home. I spent four great years while in college at Princeton, but after graduation, I never returned to the state. Living in Michigan, New Jersey just wasn’t on the route to anywhere. Now years later I find myself in New Jersey again. The time is short …
When planning my trip, I was unsure about the Outer Banks. On one hand I thought there would be many photographic opportunities. On the other hand, I now live near the ocean. I thought that the Outer Banks might be redundant, offering the same sort of opportunities that I have at my new home. There’s …
Wildlife photography is always unpredictable. It is often full of days when nothing seems to go right, but there are the rare days when nothing can go wrong. Today was one of those special days. It felt like all I had to do was look through the viewfinder and quality images started to fly. The …
When I was preparing for my trip to the Outer Banks, one of the reference books I was reading made mention of the weather at Cape Hatteras. Here the weather can change at a moment’s notice. Due to being so close to the Gulf Stream, the Cape can have completely different weather from the mainland …