The Indigo-banded Kingfisher is a resident bird at Villa Escudero, a popular resort in Tiaong, Quezon, Philippines. People would have lunch at the base of a waterfall and the water leads to a river where a forest canopy would cover both sides of the river. The Indigo-banded Kingfisher would hunt for fish, crab, and lizards […]
Long winter’s nap
Grab forty winks. Saw logs. For a species that’s habitually short on shut-eye, we humans sure have come up with myriad ways to talk about it. We also spend a lot of time and money studying sleep, or the lack thereof. Yet, in spite of decades of inquiry, researchers still don’t have a good fix […]
Picaflor vientre negro (Black-throated mango)
Estas son algunas fotos de la sesión fotográfica que le hice al Picaflor vientre negro el 27 de Diciembre en el patio de casa, siesta nublada fresca y con un poco de llovizna que hizo desaparecer a las abejas y por suerte tuve mucha actividad de picaflores durante toda la tarde. Algunas gotas de agua […]
The Mountain Apollo
Parnassius apollo pyrenaicus – Papilionidae – Parnassius The Apollo‘s mating plug or Sphragis is visible on the photo below: It is particular to the females of this lepidoptera family.It is deposited by a male into the female genital tract and later hardens into a plug assuring the male that only his sperm cells will fertilize […]
Know When to Stop
I shoot RAW almost exclusively. Therefore every shot I take needs at least a bit of post processing; usually only noise reduction (anything shot at iso 400 or above with that darn 7D), and a few minor curves adjustments to set the white & black points, brightness, and contrast. Sometimes I’ll do a little dodging […]
Hooded Merganser – Lophdytes cucullatus
What I love about winter in New England is that the pond start to freeze up and it concentrates the ducks and other birds into smaller areas that have open water. At a local pond in Plymouth Massachusetts, it becomes much easier to photograph and observe hooded mergansers. I was able to observe and photograph […]
Bonaparte’s Gull
There are several Bonaparte’s Gulls that have been hanging around the rte 417 bridge over Lake Jesup. This morning I drove by there on my way into work, and three of them were hanging around Overlook Park. A couple of them were flying circles around pier where I was standing. One in particular was very […]
Monjita blanca (White monjita)
La foto es un asco, se nubló, cambiaron todos los colores, se apaga el contraste y el contraluz jugó en contra, pero como la Monjita se posó bien cerca no estaba para desaprovechar la oportunidad y a pesar de todas las contras le saqué una foto.