Sunday
Sep022007
Photo of the Day
Sunday, September 2, 2007 at 06:29AM 
Sunset from Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, June 2002
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Sunday, September 2, 2007 at 06:29AM Wednesday
Aug152007
Steve McCurry
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at 04:32PM A few months ago I spent a weekend shooting with Steve McCurry in New York. If you are unsure who Steve is, do a google search on 'Afghan Girl National Geographic' and you will quickly understand. Here is a photograph of Steve recreating the 'Mr. Roboto' dance from an early 1980's Styx music video.
Friday
Aug032007
New cover over at Naturescapes.net
Friday, August 3, 2007 at 06:59AM Naturescapes.net has one of my images on their splash page for the month of August. This image was taken back in February 2005, while flying in a hot air balloon over the Serengeti plains. I included the balloon in this photo to give a sense of space and scale. The dust in this photograph was actually caused by the chase vehicles, as they needed to be in place for the landing of the balloons.
Wednesday
Jul182007
Photo of the Day
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 03:52AM One from the archives....
Refrigerator at The Hungry Javelina, Terlingua, Texas. November 2004.
Mamiya 645AF, Phase One P25 digital back.
Tuesday
Jul172007
Friday
Jun012007
Photo of the Day
Friday, June 1, 2007 at 01:45PM 
Canon 1DMkII, 100-400mm, 1/200 @ f/8.0, ISO 160
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
Saturday
May192007
Photo of the Day
Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 08:10AM We were lucky enough to witness a short-eared owl while on the island of Genovesa, Galapagos islands, and had an opportunity to be within short range of this amazing creature. This was the only image I was able to capture before flying away, but take notice of the storm petrel in his grasp. The storm petrel is the most common food source for the short-eared owl in the Galapagos.
Short-eared owl, Genovesa island, Galapagos, May 2007
Canon 1DsMkII, 100-400mm, 1/500sec @ f/7.1, ISO 320
Thursday
Apr262007
Leopard in a Tree
Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 04:07AM Leopards are interesting subjects to photograph, to say the least. You can spend your entire safari looking for leopards, never spotting one at all, or you can get extraordinarily lucky and have 4 or 5 in one single day. Odds are that most sightings are not perfect photographic opportunities, due to distance or messy compositions. Most of the time we find leopards way up in the canopy of a tree, and many tree branches are blocking our view. Add to that the leopard is in shaded/soft light (good thing), but the contrast between the leopard and the bright ambient daylight make for a difficult photographic opportunity.
On this day in February 2007 we came across the female leopard up in an acacia tree. Normally I do not see leopards in trees where the first branch is so high up. We sat and waited for a few hours for the scene to transpire. We were simply waiting for her to jump down out of the tree for a change of scenery.
As we were waiting for her to move, I switched into instructional mode to guide my 2 photographers who were in the Land Rover with me. I gave some background information on leopard behavior, and what would make an interesting photograph. Once you have a tight shot on a leopard in a tree, I like to zoom out with a shorter focal length, telling the story of the leopard in its environment. With a shorter focal length, you can grab a shot of the cat coming out of the tree, leaping onto the ground beneath. If you have too much lens, you can easily miss your shot and have half of your subject in your frame and half out. Better to crop later than to miss your shot entirely.
As she started to move from her perch up above, we all started capturing our images. Well stupid me. I was more interested in having a large file size from my 1DsMkII (16mp) than anything else. As you can image, my buffer filled up on my camera and I missed most of the action of her jumping out of the tree. The shot below is my last image captured before she hit the ground and left the area. Lesson learned, don't you think? I was very excited that the two guests I had in the vehicle with me had absolutely stunning images of the entire jumping sequence. I am always extremely happy when I see the excitement on faces after a rich photographic opportunity was seized!!
On this day in February 2007 we came across the female leopard up in an acacia tree. Normally I do not see leopards in trees where the first branch is so high up. We sat and waited for a few hours for the scene to transpire. We were simply waiting for her to jump down out of the tree for a change of scenery.
As we were waiting for her to move, I switched into instructional mode to guide my 2 photographers who were in the Land Rover with me. I gave some background information on leopard behavior, and what would make an interesting photograph. Once you have a tight shot on a leopard in a tree, I like to zoom out with a shorter focal length, telling the story of the leopard in its environment. With a shorter focal length, you can grab a shot of the cat coming out of the tree, leaping onto the ground beneath. If you have too much lens, you can easily miss your shot and have half of your subject in your frame and half out. Better to crop later than to miss your shot entirely.
As she started to move from her perch up above, we all started capturing our images. Well stupid me. I was more interested in having a large file size from my 1DsMkII (16mp) than anything else. As you can image, my buffer filled up on my camera and I missed most of the action of her jumping out of the tree. The shot below is my last image captured before she hit the ground and left the area. Lesson learned, don't you think? I was very excited that the two guests I had in the vehicle with me had absolutely stunning images of the entire jumping sequence. I am always extremely happy when I see the excitement on faces after a rich photographic opportunity was seized!!
Canon 1DsMkII, 400mm f/4 DO IS
