Great Blue Heron, Portrait

I took this photo in May at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge.  I posted the original photo without cropping it in my Great Blue Heron post.  I also posted the photo to the Nature Photographers’ Network and the people there suggested that I crop the photo down to make it a portrait and highlight [...]

On Watch

I took this picture while on a birding walk with the Portland Audubon Society.  I was using a Nikon 600mm f/4 AF-S II lens.  I did not bring my tripod with me because it was a walk and it was very difficult to shoot with this very heavy lens handheld.  It was difficult to get [...]

Kingfisher with Lunch

I just read Trey Ratcliff’s new eBook – Composing the Photo: Creating Order from Chaos – Bonus Edition.  It full of great information.  I hope that it will help me understand why some of my photos are so much more popular than the others.  I need to reread it to soak up all the information.

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Great Blue Heron

I took this photo at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge in May.  The water was drained but there was still a small pond next to the photo blind.  So there were still a few birds around the water.  This Great Blue Heron showed up and just looked magnificent.  The Great Blue Heron is the [...]

Kingfishers’ Battle

I took this picture back in May at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.  They have a photo blind that you can reserve.  I had been their previously in February and I took about 1,000 pictures then.  The refuge was flooded in February and there were a lot of waterfowl and two bald [...]