a cellular phone executive that has found a true calling behind the lens of a camera. I have traveled the world several times and seen some amazing places. This site and my other websites are my way of sharing my images of the places I've been and the things I've seen. Enjoy!
Now that is a great collective noun for vultures. They are also referred to as a colony, but boo, boring! These images are from one of my safaris in Botswana. I’ve recently been updating and re-sizing my images to match the new style of web gallery and so you’ll be seeing more of these images [...]
WooHoo, finally “they” as in the collective noun police got a good one for the lynx. Wonder what a collective noun for collective noun writers would be, a scribe? a plurality? Post your thoughts. As you might expect this is another group of image from my wildlife photography workshop in California. This time the subject [...]
OK, boring “they” need to step it up with the collective nouns on this one. I still like a “howling” or perhaps an “eclipse” would be more relevant these days. A pack of wolves on the move is called a route” or a “horde”. At any rate this howling of wolves was photographed during my [...]
As the title says and the map below confirms, I was out chasing the shorebirds around the Gandy Bridge beach this morning. I got a bit of a late start, but the photography was pretty good. The nice thing about shooting shorebirds this time of the year is that many of the migrants are in [...]
I don’t really care for this collective noun either. How about a ‘Gruff” or “Pest”? Post you suggestions for a new collective noun. I’ve photographed quite a few badgers, but never one as mellow as this one. Never snarled, never was cranky and never really did any badgerly things. It was also quite a photogenic [...]
The poor fox has several collective nouns and most of them are not very good… a leash? an earth? a lead? Menh! We may have sort out a new collective noun for the fox. Perhaps a “Stole” not very PETA of me, but it’s better than some of the others. Leave a comment with your [...]
I thought for sure it would a “howling” of coyotes, but still “band” is pretty good. Perhaps when I add some wolves to my website we’ll get a “howling”! And of course, I have wolves to add… Next up will be a Silver Fox. These coyote images were taken during my most recent photography workshop [...]
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(Click any image for the big version.) Hummingbirds have always fascinated me and when I began serious wildlife photography I spent hours “practicing” on my backyard birds, especially the hummingbirds. I figured that if I could photograph a bird that has wings that beat 80 times a second AND can fly backwards I could photograph [...]
If you have seen otters you’ll have to agree that this is a perfect collective noun! On my wildlife photography workshop in April we had an otter to work with. It was one of the most difficult wildlife sessions ever, this guy never slowed down! Run, run, run, eat, run, run…you get it. Yikes, I [...]
Nobody asked, but seems that “Den” is a better noun, but as usual, “they” didn’t ask me. These pictures are of a young grizzly bear and I took them during my wildlife photography workshop in April. Photographing this adolescent at such close range was possible only because the bear was habituated and in a controlled [...]
I really don’t get the logic of that noun, but then I am not the one in charge…yet! These bobcat pictures were taken during my photography workshop in April. Using habituated animals in a controlled environment is the best way to get closeup and interesting shots of these cats. Plus they look great! We (Paw [...]
One of the official collective nouns for swallows in general is “sord”. Well I had to look up sord to make sure it wasn’t a typo for “sword”. It wasn’t, its an old English word for flight. I think however that a “Sword of Swallows” is far more clever and hereby officially declare a new [...]
Magpies are really very smart birds and I find them to be a bit of a challenge to photograph. They usually flee as soon as they spot a human and that is normally at a long range. One way that has worked in the past was to visit an area where there are campers that [...]
Talk about aggressive, the Rufous Hummingbird is the feistiest hummingbird in North America. The brilliant orange male and the green-and-orange female Rufous Hummingbird are relentless attackers at flowers and feeders. They really don’t tolerate any other hummingbirds around “their” feeders. This also makes them great fun to watch and photograph. I was lucky enough to [...]
