… and how to identify our most elegant of wild creatures.  Months ago I shared a post featuring three of Florida’s most unique species.  Based on highly appreciated reader feedback we’ll now look once a week at the bird life of SWFL.  It’s more than just egrets, herons and pelicans though all three make excellent [...]

… requires just a little extra preparation and thought.  To really capture the action especially at a night game all of your settings have got to be in place along with a keen ability to anticipate the action.  And how you’d like to present it.  Friday night’s Naples High School football game was lots of [...]

… because there will be plenty of opportunities for shooting.  Get out early for the best light as the skies have been clouding up around mid day and are expected to do so again.  3 ideas for great pictures: 1) Hit the beach- As always you’ll find plenty of interesting scenes including local “landmarks” like [...]

… when you catch a glimpse of a Bald Eagle?  While cruising  up the Gordon River recently to assess the lighting and timing on a waterfront real estate assignment I was treated to a visual feast as not one but three of these majestic birds performed wild diving barrel roles before lighting in a row [...]

… are easy to see if you allow yourself.  Even better, these often common scenes and sights can make great pictures, paintings and sketches if you take the time.  While drifting the Gulf of Mexico for big game fish over the weekend a long time friend looked around at the absolute swarm of gulls and [...]

…. I do because it’s an example of making use of poor light to steer wildlife and bird photography in an artistic direction.  If weighty Summer clouds are hovering and the sunlight is fading sometimes it’s fun to forget about perfectly focused images and let the pendulum swing towards the opposite- totally blurred shots that [...]

… don’t it? “  So crooned and questioned the great Rod Stewart.  When shooting candids, sports, wildlife and other images featuring people and living things I’m always thinking about making the photo “say something.”  It may be suggestive of an emotion, memory, thought process or unique behavior.  A few tips on making every picture tell [...]

… in the vernacular of the swfl big game fisherman. Known by several monikers not limited to “Silver King”, “Poon” and the “Great Herring” Tarpon hail from one of the oldest families of fish on earth with a genetic lineage stringing back almost seventy million years.  That’s a lot of tide changes.  Today they fixate [...]

… if you want it to be.  Black & white photography and black & white photos are back in vogue especially since the advances in digital cameras and editing programs like Photoshop Elements.  What goes around comes around!   I find this form of the art to be a creative diversion which often appeals to [...]

… that’s right, trash ‘em.  That is the ones that  don’t cut the muster or in some cases qualify as art.  Just like an athlete or musician practices to be his or her best so must the shutterbug especially if the work will be displayed.  When I’m out taking pictures I always myself “would someone [...]