Sick Photographer

The second half of July all the way through the end of October, I’ve been afflicted with one cold after another. My four year old daughter, started pre-school this fall and it seems like there are a whole bunch of cold viruses being spread through children! Combined with the heat, I’ve been stuck indoors for much of that time trying to recover. Hopefully some cooler weather will come to South Florida soon, so I can go out and give my new Canon EOS 7D a good workout. I’ll be posting my thoughts on the new camera once I’ve had some time in the field with it.

It looks like one or more of my images submitted to the 2009 Refuge Photo Contest have made it to the semi-finalist round. My dad received the same notice as well. Winners should be announced soon.

The details of the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge 27th Annual Photography Contest are now available on the contest web site.

Shorebirds of the Northern Hemisphere

One of the goals of any nature photographer is to have an image published. I have had several of my images published on web sites, presentations, magazines, and books. My winning image titled “The Chase” was recently published in the Spring 2009 edition of Audubon of Florida’s magazine Florida Naturalist (PDF).

However, I’ve always thought of my style of wildlife photography to lean towards publication in some sort of guide book. Much of my youth was spent pouring through field guide after field guide on birds and reptiles and it has undoubtedly had an influence on my work as a nature photographer. So I am pleased that one of my juvenile Black-necked Stilt images from last summer was selected and recently published in the guide Shorebirds of the Northern Hemisphere by Richard Chandler. The book itself is a terrific guide to shorebirds, showing images of both young and adult birds as well as many behavioral images including flight for many species.

Finally I’ve just published an article “Tips on learning how to photograph Birds in Flight” over at the Everglades Photographic Society web site. I’m planning for it to be part one in a series of three updated articles on photographing birds in flight.

Quick Update

Hello Everyone. I realize that the web site has not been updated in quite some time. Being a new father again, has made it difficult to find the time keep up with the site updates. The baby and family are doing very well, and we're looking forward to the day we can start getting more sleep again.

As time permits I'll post a major update to the galleries. Right now, I've only been posting images to flickr, so if you'd like to see some recent images, please have a look there.

The Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge 26th Annual Photography Contest was a big success, and we're already hard at work on next year's contest. I'm also working on some updated articles on flight photography for the Everglades Photographic Society web site. That should be published in the next few weeks. Now that it is summer session at FAU, I've been concentrating on photographing some of the burrowing owls that call the Boca Raton campus home.

Finally, I've also got a Facebook page going.